Business Strategy/Policy 2008/9 Topic 2 : The Environment, and Competitive Forces Strategic Planning : an Overview We are here! (adapted from Johnson, Scholes, & Whittington, 2008) Ext. Environment: PESTEL Porter’s ‘diamond’/ 5 Forces Convergence Strategic Group Analysis Life Cycle Analysis Market Segmentation SWOT (0T) Business Level Strategies Strategic choices Strategy in Action Stakeholder expectations & purposes Internal environment: Resource audit Strategic Capability Value Chain/Networks
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................................................ 11 Question 1. The applicable leadership theory portrayed by Norman Brinker was the Leadership substitute. It is at times leadership will be unnecessary due to the presence substitutes. This model suggests that under certain conditions managers do not play a leadership role because members perform at a high level without a manager influencing them. Brinker’s philosophy is that “winners attract winners”. He surrounded himself with people who
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Running head: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS TOOLS Strategic Management Analysis Tools XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX xxxxxxxx Abstract The number of strategic management analysis tools have increased dramatically in the last twenty years. This increase could be a result of a growing demand to meet the new demands this new global market. This literature review aims to outline these articles and findings by concentrating on the strategic management research tools and describing the tools that
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core competences of a firm, (4) formulate strategy for the firm, (5) understand the nature of corporate strategy, and (6) understand the nature of international strategy. Additional learning outcomes are specified for each session. COURSE CONTENT The course consists of nine sessions: (1) What is strategy? (2) The Market Positioning Approach (3) The Resource Based View of Strategy (4) The Institution Based View of Strategy (5) Diversifications and Acquisitions (6) Strategic Alliances and
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THEORIES THE FOLLOWING THEORIES WILL BE USED TO IDENTIFY THE KEY ISSUES OF MA THEORIES ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü ü PESTEL ANALYSIS SWOT ANALYSIS PORTER’S 5 FORCES CULTURAL AND LEADERSHIP STYLE OF MA (HARD & SOFT) KNOWLEDGE BASED VIEW & RESOURCE BASED VIEW FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS BLUE OCEAN STRATEGIES STRATEGY GROUP MAP SEVEN “S” MODEL KEY ISSUES ü COMPANY PROFILE OF THE MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT STATUS OF THE THE MALAYSIAN AIRLINES ü CURRENT STRATEGIC POSITION OF MALAYSIAN AIRLINES
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BCG Matrix, SWOT Analysis and Porter Model BCG Matrix Introduction: The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix is an uncomplicated tool to evaluate a company’s position in terms of its product range. It facilitates a company think about its products and services and makes decisions about which it should keep, which it should let go and which it should invest in further. Also called the BCG Matrix, it provides a useful way of screening the opportunities open to the company and helps to think about
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A SWOT Analysis view of the software development industry Georgios Kormaris Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands gkormari@cs.uu.nl WWW home page: http://www.cs.uu.nl/ Introduction I n the past twenty to thirty years many changes and developments have taken place in the software industry which started off during the 1960s mainly in the United States of America and experienced a revolutionary boom since the 1980s, Steinmueller
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develops and operates. The second section deals with the second question and the author discussed the advantages offered by Android mobile phones over Symbian’s mobile and how an organisation can gain its competitive advantage using “Porter’s Five Forces Model”. The report also provides brief discussion on the advantages of technology-driven strategies. Lynch (2012:568)
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market as well as give an insight of their future challenges and some concrete strategic suggestions for how these firms might deal with them. The industry lifecycle stages is a famous model explored by Michael Porter. According to him, the industry is one of the most important factor of a firm’s environment (Porter, 1980). The global online retail is still at the beginning of its growth cycle. It is also one of the most promising and therefore attractive industry. It has experienced a compound annual
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Porter's Five Forces Model) [ ] · (Michael Porter) 80 [ ] , [ ] 1 Power of Suppliers) Bargaining - http://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/波特五⼒力分析模型 第 1 ⻚页（共 19 ⻚页） 波特五⼒力分析模型 - MBA智库百科 13-1-17 下午2:34 - - [ ] 2 (Bargaining Power of Buyers) - - [ ] 3 Threat of New Entrants ( ) http://wiki.mbalib.com/wiki/波特五⼒力分析模型 第 2 ⻚页（共 19 ⻚页） 波特五⼒力分析模型 - MBA智库百科 13-1-17 下午2:34 [ ] 4 (Substitutes) [ ] 5 (Rivalry)
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