Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Rapid
Globalization technological
change
Increasing
The global importance of
economy Today’s knowledge
competitive and people
markets
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Competitive Advantage
Formulation and
implementation of
a superior value-
creating strategy
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The Strategic Management Process
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The Global Competitive Landscape
• Market volatility and instability due to
the rapid pace of change in markets
• Blurring of market boundaries
• Globalized flow of financial capital
Increasing
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Hypercompetition
Strategic options in
Global
hypercompetitive Technology
economy
environments
Use of Protection or
Creation of new
price-quality invasion of
know-how and
positioning to established
use of first-mover
build market geographic or
advantage
presence product markets
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Competitive Success Factors
performers
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Technology and Technological Changes
Technology trends
The information age: Internet
impacting the
and the global proliferation of
global competitive low-cost computing power
environment
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Strategic Flexibility
• Strategic Flexibility:
– Involves coping with the uncertainty and risks of
hypercompetitive environments.
– Must first overcome built-up organizational inertia.
– Requires developing the capacity for continuous
learning and applying the new and updated skills sets
and competencies to the firm’s competitive
advantage.
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Strategic Choices
Product
Diversification
differentiation
Barriers to Industry
market entry concentration
The firm’s
Economies Market
of scale strategic frictions
choices
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The Industry Organization (I/O) Model
of Above-Average Returns
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I/O Model Assumptions
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Five Forces Model of Competition
Substitutes
Industry
Suppliers Buyers
rivalry
Potential
entrants
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Five Forces Model Assumptions
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The Resource-Based Model
of Above-Average Returns
Core
Capability competence
An integrated A source of
set of resources competitive
Resources advantage
Physical, human, and
organizational capital
(tangible and intangible)
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Resource-Based Model Assumptions
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Resources As Core Competencies
Costly to imitate
How resources
Rare become core Valuable
competencies
Nonsubstitutable
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The Resource-Based Model of
Above-Average Returns
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Strategic Decision Making
Competitive
strategy
decision
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Vision Statement
• A Successful Vision:
– is an enduring word picture of what the firm wants to
be and expects to achieve in the future.
– stretches and challenges its people.
– reflects the firm’s values and aspirations.
– is most effective when its development includes all
stakeholders.
– recognizes the firm’s internal and external competitive
environments.
– is supported by upper management decisions and
actions.
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Mission Statement
• An Effective Mission:
– specifies the present business or businesses in which
the firm intends to compete and customers it intends
to serve.
– has a more concrete, near-term focus on current
product markets and customers than the firm’s vision.
– should be inspiring and relevant to all stakeholders.
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Stakeholders
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Classification of Stakeholders
Categories of
stakeholders
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The Three Stakeholder Groups
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Capital Market Stakeholders
Preservation
of investment
Conflicting
expectations of
Influence Risk/return
shareholders
and lenders
Enhanced wealth
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Product Market Stakeholders
Types of product
market stakeholders
Host
Suppliers Customers Unions
communities
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Organizational Stakeholders
Organizational
Education Strategic goals
culture and International
and skills of and global
ethical work assignments
employees standards
environment
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The Work of Effective Strategic Leaders
• Strategic Leaders:
– have a strong strategic orientation that relies on
thorough analysis when taking action.
– are located at various levels throughout the firm.
– want the firm and its people to accomplish more.
– are innovative thinkers who promote innovation.
– can leverage relationships with external parties while
simultaneously promoting exploratory learning.
– have an ambicultural (global mindset) approach to
management.
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