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types of strategy
The plan
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Strategy definition
• Sustainable competitive
advantage
• Stakeholder expectations
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Advantages & disadvantages of strategic planning
ADVANTAGE OR DISADVANTAGE?
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Advantages & disadvantages of strategic planning
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
o Consistency o Rigidity
o Control o Cost
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Types of strategy 1 – Rational planning
• Analysis
• Choice
• Implementation
• Stable environment,
large organisation
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Types of strategy 2 – Emergent
• Implementation
• Dynamic environment,
large organisation
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Types of strategy 3 – Logical incrementalism
• Bounded rationality
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Types of strategy 4 – Freewheeling opportunism
• No formal strategy
• Exploit opportunities
• Reactive
• Dynamic environment,
small organisation
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Example
Stable
Complex
A freewheeling opportunism
approach for strategic
formulation would be Hostile
advantageous for which
ONE of the following types of Static
environment?
Bureaucratic
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Example - Answer
Stable
Complex
A freewheeling opportunism
approach for strategic
formulation would be Hostile
advantageous for which
ONE of the following types of Static
environment?
Bureaucratic
11
Summary
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Strategy lenses &
levels of strategy
The plan
Approaches to
strategic planning Levels of strategy
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Strategy lenses
• Strategy as design
• Strategy as experience
• Strategy as discourse
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Certainty and agreement (Stacey, 2007)
Certainty (How)
Close to Far From
Close to
Agreement (Outcomes)
Rational Judgement
e.g. Donald Trump e.g. Apple
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Approaches to strategic planning
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Levels of strategy
Senior management
Corporate Entire company
strategy e.g. overseas expansion
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Example – Levels of strategy
Rational
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Example – Levels of strategy
Rational
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The plan
Approaches to
strategic planning Levels of strategy
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The strategy
process
Introduction
Content covered
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Learning outcomes
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Study hints
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