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EM4002
WHAT IS STRATEGY?
An introduction to strategy and
strategic management
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3.
4.
5.
Business
WHY BOTHER?
External Stakeholders
Stakeholders
Examples
Influence
Market
Social/
political
Policy makers,
Social legitimacy
regulators, government
agencies
Technological
Key adopters,
standards agencies,
owners of competitive
technologies
Diffusion of new
technology/
adoption of
industry standards
Internal stakeholders
owners
Employers bosses /
management
employees
Trade unions
pensioners
Holding companies/parent
companies
Being strategic
WHY BOTHER?
Effective implementation
Simple, consistent,
long-term goals
Profound understanding
of the competitive
environment
Grant, 2008: 7
Objective
appraisal of
resources
Meanings of strategy
Strategy as
a direction or goal
a process
a plan
a document
a choice/decision
about performance
long term
Be complex in nature
Be made in situations of uncertainty
Affect operational decisions
Require an integrated approach (both inside and
outside an organisation)
Rely on external relationships and networks
Involve considerable change
Johnson, Scholes and Whittington, 2007
Where to compete?
How to compete?
Grant, 2008
Levels of strategy
INDUSTRY
ATTRACTIVENESS
CORPORATE
STRATEGY
Which industries
should we be in?
RATE OF RETURN
ABOVE THE COST
OF CAPITAL
How do we make
money?
COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE
How should we
compete?
BUSINESS
STRATEGY
Grant, 2008: 20
Describing strategy
Mission
Vision, strategic intent, goal
Objective, goal
Control
Business model
Strategic capability
Strategic plans
Analysis
of the
environment
Vision,
mission and
objectives
Analysis
of resources
Strategic
option 2
Choose from
options
Strategic
option 3
Implement
chosen
options
Strategy
development
and trial of
various
options
design vs emergence
Intended strategies
Emergent strategies
Realized strategies
intended
strategy
deliberate strategy
unrealized
strategy
realized
strategy
emergent
strategy