UNIT 1 i Overview of strategic management Unit 1 BMG 303/05 Strategic Management Overview of Strategic Management ii WAWASAN OPEN UNIVERSITY BMG 303/05 Strategic Management COURSE TEAM Course Team Coordinator: Dr. Chuah Poh Lean Content Writer: Dr. Hasliza Abdul Halim Instructional Designer: Mr. Khoo Chiew Keen Academic Member: Ms Lum Li Sean COURSE COORDINATOR Ms. Loo Saw Khuan EXTERNAL COURSE ASSESSOR Associate Professor Dr. Haji Hamzah Dato Abdul Rahman, Universiti
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The name is known in some many countries that it’s unbelievable. “Apple enjoys a favorable competitive environment provided by the user. It enables them by offering all associated devices. In this era, it’s a huge competitive advantage. Apple’s sustainable in the market share stems from the facts that it was able to successfully connect its devices with each other and one generation of devices with the next” (. As you know Apple is an innovated company with a huge reputation and their branding
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than a series of ad hoc brilliant strategies.” Introduction to strategic planning To achieve certain strategically valuable results, specific actions are required to be planned and acted upon by an organisation or an individual. What inputs are made by the management of an organisation define the expected outputs. Steiner, George A. (2010) in his book explains that strategic planning is indissolubly mixed with field of management these days and is not regarded as a separate process. Managers focus
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Principles of Management October 10, 2012 ARTICLE ANALYSIS 2 Article: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/tech/mobile/ipad-mini-gahran/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 Everyday businesses are changing and thinking of new ways to improve their companies. In order to expand their companies, many business owners use strategic planning to achieve more growth. Many companies have benefitted by using strategic planning, and Apple is one of those benefitting companies. Ever since Steve Jobs founded Apple, it has been
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order to help an organization understanding internal and external factors of the environment that they are requiring for their long-term goals, strategic planning is of the utmost requirement for them. In this paper, I will recognize and explore the situations of internal and external situations used to make these two organizations successful, Coca Cola and Apple. I will also examine the business plans used by the two companies that give them their competitive advantages and how their individual strategies
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| |5 |Criteria for evaluating strategic alternatives | | | | |10 | | | | | |6 |Three strategic alternatives and evaluation
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Final Business Model and Strategic Plan Graciela Venegas, Christopher Nieto BUS 475 Claudia Camacho 2-23-2015 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Executive Summary 4 Strategies 6 Conceptualizing in Business 7 SWOTT Analysis 11 Balance Scorecard 17 Reference 23 Abstract Our final business model will be discussed in this paper. We will emphasize the important factors that will contribute to the completion of our intended
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definition of technology from a strategic point of view. Technology, in strategic terms, refers to the use of machines, and techniques to better the tactical process of a company. It involves the use of a machine or a technique to make tasks and decisions easier in the operations of a company. However, from a strategic stance, technology positions a company in a market. This enhances a corporation’s ability to attain a competitive edge in the market. In strategic aspects, technology acquires optimum
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Running Head: ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN Yolanda Galvan Melany Felton July 9, 2013 Strategic Management 498 Introduction Environmental scanning is an important part of all the organizations in order to compete in the market effectively, especially with a multinational approach to get a competitive advantage over others in the global environment. Competitive analysis is an important
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sell more products to beat other competitors in the market with a sustainable profit gain, and a business model is the definition of the companies’ strategies to achieve this profitability. 2. Describe the strategic planning model, and who is involved in the strategy-making process - Strategic planning model is the process of formulating and implementing company strategies. Corporate
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