Question 3: What should be the key Traits of a CEO?

What are the forces that design the Strategic

Management Systems?
Answer:
It is noted that no two persons are alike this is also true with regards to their personality and how they run
their corporations/organizations. However, below are some of the traits a CEO should possess to
effectively run his/her organization. 1.

Conveys strong sense of vision

Links compensation to performance

Communicates frequently with employees

Emphasizes ethics

Plans for management succession

Communicates frequently with customers

Reassigns or Terminates

Rewards loyalty

Makes sound decisions

Forces that design Strategic Management systems are as follows: Organizations - based on their size are
either gearing towards formality and more details which speaks for large organizations while for small
companies, they tend towards less details and are not too formal. Management styles how the top
management conducts its business and style of doing its business affects the design towards strategic
management. Policy making is part of the management style that most large and small scale
organizations use in part of designing their strategic management system. Complexity of Environment is
the organization in a stable environment? Are there any competitions to the companys success? Iis there
a market for the type of service offered? Some of these questions shape how systems are develop for the
organization as strategy will be determined by the answers of the said questions. Complexity of
Production process entails how effective is the process itself. Takes into consideration the following
factors:
Production lead time
Capital intensive
Labor intensive
Manufacturing process
Technology
Market reaction time
Nature of problems determining nature of problems help in the design of the system as they can come
up with counter measures to solve the situation.