Corporate Strategy

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VUCA World Crisis

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Great (Global) Reset

Organisation Environment Analysis

Macro – PESTEL
Micro – Porter’s Five Forces (Industry)
Internal – Every other model (Value Chain, Leadership, Governance, Risk, Generic Strategies,
Corporate culture)
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What’s driving the change? Industrial Revolution

Seven Grey Elephants

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Perfect storm
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Ageing
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Angry planet
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Inequality
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The Big Squeeze (There is a lack of skill)
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Angry people
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Multipolarity

Intelligence assistance
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Adapt or perish
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Bionic companies

4 elements of Bionic Companies

1. Modular Technology
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2. AI & Data

3. Digital Talent
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4. Dynamic organizational structure

3 main outcomes of Bionic Companies

1. Personalized customer experience
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2. Bionic operations and business models

3. Innovative products and service ranges

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Industry 5.0 vs Industry 4.0

Rapidly growing technologies of 4IR

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Nested Dependencies

Doing business in Africa

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How dynamic is Africa? GIBS research

Key Trends in Africa

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South African Perspective

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Seismic shifts
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What has changed?

Technology
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Key drivers for disruption

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5 years to get to 50 million users

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Impact of changes in requirements and technology

Summary of systemic changes

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Strategy at glance

Crafting strategy in turbulent times

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Changing landscape
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Organisational mindset shifts

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Confluence of powerful forces

Items in corporate boardrooms today

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Introduction to strategy
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Signposts to resilience
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The strategy of an organization is about

Five views of strategy - Mintzberg

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Reactive strategy elements (Emergent strategy)

Levels of strategy
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Strategic management process

Strategy-making, strategy-executing process

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Strategic intent

Defining vision and mission

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Strategically aligned organization

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SA six pack
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Developing a Strategic Vision
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Mission statement
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Vision and Mission statements
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Uber business model

Airbnb
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Netflix
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Amazon
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Winning aspiration

Where will we play?

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How will we win?
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Answers to vision vs mission

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Formulating strategy

Corporate Social Responsibility

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Ethical conduct

Four types of social responsibilities

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Corporate citezenship

Five issues of importance

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Stakeholders

Ethical values – Corporate governance structure

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Strategy relevance
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Trends from the World Economic Forum

Key African Trends

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North Africa Devastation

Context South Africa

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Challenges in the context of South Africa
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SONA – Inclusive Economic Growth

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Landscape
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Alibaba
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Google glass
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UP4 American Express
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Industry Environment
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External Environmental Analysis

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Elements of macroenvironment

Industry or market environment – Why do we compete in the market?

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Industry competitive forces – apply in the micro entity. Others is called Generic Strategy

Porter’s Five Forces – Industry Analysis

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Intensity of Rivalry

Barriers to Entry
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Threats of Substitutes

Buyer Power
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Porter’s Five Competitive Force Model of Low-cost Airline Industry

External Environmental Analysis

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How do you get competitive advantage?

Key Success Factor (KSF) for Future Competitive Success

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Question: Conduct an External Environmental Analysis = PESTEL & Porter’s Five Forces
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Common Key Success Factors

Identify Resources Strengths and Competitive Capabilities

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Company’s Resources Strengths and Weaknesses and its External Opportunities and Threats
(SWOT)
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Strategic thinking has already disrupted….

Strategic alignment
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Defining strategy

Ten core themes of strategy

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Pragmatic definition of strategy

Strategy design framework

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Strategy execution framework

Competitive Advantage = TOPAC-G + COD-OR

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Criteria for assessing Strategy
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Big Questions in Strategy

Three big strategic questions

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What do we mean by strategy?

The Hows that define a firm’s strategy

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Formulating strategy

Groups of grand strategies

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Evaluate five key components that are in place in the organization for effective execution of
strategy
1. People

2. Resources
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3. Structure

4. Systems

5. Culture
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Two sets of competitive decisions become apparent

Striving for competitive advantage

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Strategic approaches to building competitive advantage

Five Generic Competitive Strategies

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Five Generic Competitive Strategy
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Five Generic Strategy – Need to choose!

Five Generic Strategy – Approach

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Case study – Porsche – Focused Differentiation Strategy

VW – Broad Differentiation Strategy

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Strategic importance in Parent Portfolio

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Strategic alliances

3 Cs when choosing an alliance

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Global strategies

Four international Operations Strategies

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These strategies described as…

Strategies for entering foreign markets

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Entry modes

Global alliance strategies – Advantages and Disadvantages

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Unit 5: Strategy Implementation and Control

Eight actions of implementing and executing strategy

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Barriers to successful strategy implementation
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Questions
Brief profile of an organization
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Evaluate the company’s external environment using Porter’s Five Forces
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Construct the company’s value chain and analyse the key elements of the company’s value chain
activities
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Critical account of the corporate strategic options used by the company to fir the specific
industry and company situation
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Assess the company’s culture and describe the features that stand out. Does the culture support
strategy?

Case Study – 7 secretes of Google’s epic organizational culture

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Question: Using the information in the article above, evaluate the organizational culture of
Google
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CEO of multi-national enterprise. Discuss how you would go about entering a new host country.
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Generic strategy of Capitec Bank
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Resources and capabilities

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Corporate Governance
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