Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Comprehensive Strategic Management Model
External
Audit
Chapter 3
Internal
Audit
Chapter 4
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Internal Assessment
—Robert Lenz—
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
—Sun Zi—
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Internal Audit:
Building
competitive advantage involves
taking advantage of distinctive competencies
Strategies
designed in part to improve on a
firm’s weaknesses and turn to strengths
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Internal Audit
Gather & assimilate information from:
• Management
• Marketing
• Finance/accounting
• Production/operations
• Research & development
• Management information systems
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Internal Audit
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Integrating Strategy and Culture
Organizational Culture –
Pattern of behavior developed by an
organization as it learns to cope with
its problem of external adaptation and
internal integration…is considered
valid and taught to new members
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Organizational Culture
► Resistant to change
► May represent a strength or weakness of firm
► Planning
► Organizing
► Motivating
► Staffing
► Controlling
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Stage of Strategic-
Function Management Process
When Most Important
Planning Strategy Formulation
Management
Forecasting
Establishing objectives
Planning Devising strategies
Developing policies
Setting goals
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Management Leadership
Communication
Work groups
Job enrichment
Motivating
Job satisfaction
Needs fulfillment
Organizational change
Morale
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Management Audit Checklist
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Marketing
► Customer analysis
► Selling products/services
► Product and service planning
► Pricing
► Distribution
► Marketing research
► Opportunity analysis
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Consumer information
Market positioning
strategies
Customer analysis
Customer profiles
Market segmentation
strategies
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Advertising
Marketing
Sales
Promotion
Publicity
Selling
Products/services
Sales force
management
Customer relations
Dealer relations
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Test marketing
Marketing
Brand positioning
Devising warrantees
Packaging
Product/service
planning
Product
features/options
Product style
Quality
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Forward integration
Marketing
Discounts
Credit terms
Condition of sale
Pricing
Markups
Costs
Unit pricing
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Warehousing
Marketing
Channels
Coverage
Inventory levels
Transportation
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Marketing
Data collection
Data input
Data analysis
Marketing research
Support all business
functions
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Marketing
Assessing costs
Assessing benefits
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Marketing Audit Checklist
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Marketing Audit Checklist (Cont’d)
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Finance/Accounting
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
• Firm’s ability to
Financial ratios
meet its short-term
obligations
Ratios
Quick
(or acid-test)
ratio
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
• Extent of debt
Financial ratios financing
Ratios
Debt-to-total-assets
Leverage ratios
Debt-to-equity
Long-term debt-to-equity
Times-interest earned
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
• Effective use of firm’s
Financial ratios resources
Ratios
Inventory-turnover
Activity ratios
Fixed assets turnover
Ratios
Profitability
Gross profit margin
ratios
Operating profit margin
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
• Effectiveness shown
Financial ratios by returns on sales
and investment
Ratios
Profitability
ratios Return on stockholders’ equity
(continued) (ROE)
Price-earnings ratio
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
• Firm’s ability to
Financial ratios maintain economic
position
Ratios
Net income
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Finance/Accounting Audit Checklist (Cont’d)
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Production/Operations
► Process
► Capacity
► Inventory
► Workforce
► Quality
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Design of facility
Production/Operations
Choice of technology
Facility layout
Line balancing
Process control
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Production/Operations Forecasting
Facilities planning
Aggregate planning
Capacity
Scheduling
Capacity planning
Queuing analysis
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Production/Operations
Raw material
Work in process
Inventory
Finished goods
Materials handling
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Production/Operations
Job design
Work measurement
Job enrichment
Workforce
Work standards
Motivation techniques
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Production/Operations
Quality control
Sampling
Testing
Quality
Quality assurance
Cost control
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Production/Operations Audit Checklist
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Production/Operations Audit Checklist
(Cont’d)
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Research & Development
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Financing as many
Research & Development
projects as possible
Use percentage-of-
sales method
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Research & Development Audit
Checklist (Cont’d)
► Are management information and computer
systems adequate?
► Is communication between R&D and other
organizational units effective?
► Are present products technologically
competitive?
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Computer Information Systems
► Information Systems
► CIO/CTO
► Security
► User-friendly
► E-commerce
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Internal Assessment (Cont’d)
Computer Information Systems
Audit Checklist
Potential development
of substitute products
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Internal Analysis (IFE)
Five-Step Process:
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Internal Analysis (IFE) (Cont’d)
Five-Step Process: (Cont’d)
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Internal Analysis (IFE) (Cont’d)
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Key Terms & Concepts
► Activity ratios ► Distinctive
► Buying competencies
► Capital budgeting ► Distribution
► Communication ► Dividend decision
► Computer information ► Financial ratio analysis
systems ► Financing decisions
► Controlling ► Functions of
► Cost/benefit analysis finance/accounting
► Cultural products ► Functions of
management
► Customer analysis
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Key Terms & Concepts (Cont’d)
► Functions of marketing ► Leverage ratios
► Functions of ► Liquidity ratios
production/operations ► Marketing research
► Growth ratio ► Motivating
► Human resource ► Opportunity analysis
management ► Organizational culture
► Internal audit ► Organizing
► Internal Factor ► Personnel management
Evaluation (IFE) Matrix
► Planning
► Investment Decision
► Pricing
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Key Terms & Concepts (Cont’d)
► Product and service ► Selling
planning ► Social responsibility
► Production/operations ► Staffing
functions ► Synergy
► Profitability ratios ► Test marketing
► Research and
development
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