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Long 1
Grammar
Who – People That –Things
They’re – Their
Subject-Verb Disagreement (those kind, profits has)
Preposition at end of sentence: (several to choose from)
MGT 4153Dr. Rebecca Long
Strategy & Effectiveness
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Role in Strategic Direction
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Organizational goal is a desired state of affairs that the organization attempts to reach. Top executives decide organizational goals.Q1: A company’s strategic intent or direction reflects managers’ systematic analysis of organizational and environmental factors. Agree or Disagree? (58)Organizational design is the administration and execution of the strategic plan.
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Strategic Intent
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Means that all the organization’s energies and resources are directed toward a focused, unifying and compelling overall goal. Three aspects related to strategic intent are the mission, core competencies and competitive advantage.Mission – reason for existence.Mission statement communicates to current and prospective employees customers, investors, suppliers and competitors what the organization stands for and is trying to achieve.
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"The Coca-Cola Promise: The Coca-Cola Company exists to benefit and refresh everyone it touches. The basic proposition of our business is simple, solid, and timeless. When we bring refreshment, value, joy and fun to our stakeholders, then we successfully nurture and protect our brands, particularly Coca-Cola. That is the key to fulfilling our ultimate obligation to provide consistently attractive returns to the owners of our business."
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Our Mission StatementThe mission of Southwest Airlines is dedicationto the highest quality of Customer Servicedelivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness,individual pride, and Company Spirit.
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Question 2: The best business strategy is to make products and services as distinctive as possible to gain an edge in the marketplace. (Agree or Disagree) (pg. 69)
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Core Competence or Competencies
Something the organization does especially well in comparison to its competitors. (Ex: superior R&D, tech skills, exceptional customer service)
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Competitive Advantage
What sets the organization apart from others and provides it with a distinctive edge for meeting customer or client needs in the marketplace. (Walgreens)
Operative Goals represent the primary tasks of the organization where official or overall goals describe more of a value system.
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Framework for Selecting Strategy and Design
A strategy is a plan for interacting with the competitive environment to achieve organizational goals. Goals are where the organization wants to go and strategies define how it plans to get there.
Two models for formulating competitive strategies are the Porter model and Miles and Snow’s strategy typology.
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Porter: Forces that determine a company’s position in relation to
competitors in the industry:
• Threat of new entrants (Nike, Under Armour)
• Power of suppliers (Nielson Company & TiVo)
• Power of buyers (Walmart)• Threat of substitutes (Pharmaceutical
companies, telephone)• Rivalry among existing competitors (Coke
and Pepsi)
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Differentiation strategy – Organizations try to distinguish their products or services from others in the industry. (Apple)
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Porter’s Competitive Strategies(page 68)
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Low-Cost Leadership: Concentrates internally on cost reduction and efficiency
Differentiation: Concentrates externally on quality and customer perceptions
Focus: Concentrates cost or differentiation by geographic or buyer group
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Porter’s Competitive Strategies
Scope Advantage Strategy Example
Broad Low CostLow-Cost
Leadership Dell Computer
Broad Uniqueness DifferentiationStarbucksCoffee Co.
Narrow Low CostFocused Low-
CostLeadership
EnterpriseRent-a-Car
Narrow UniquenessFocused
DifferentiationRolex
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Miles & Snow’s Strategy Typology
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Prospector: Innovation, risks, new opportunities, and growth (Nike, Facebook, Google, MySpace)
Defender: Risk avoidance, stability/retrenchment, efficiency, and control (Paramount)
Analyzer: Core stability, peripheral innovation, diverse approach depending on product (Midway between Prospector and Defender – [Amazon.com])
Reactor: No mission, goals, strategy (No strategy at all!) (Dell)
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Question 3: The best measures of business
performance are financial. (Agree or Disagree) (page 79)
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Contingency Approaches to the Measurement of Organizational Effectiveness
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Organization
Internalactivities
andprocesses
ResourceInputs
Product andServiceOutputs
Resource-based
approach
Internalprocessapproa
ch
Goalapproa
ch
External Environment
Four Models of Effectiveness Values
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Human Relations Emphasis
Primary Goal: human resource developmentSubgoals: cohesion, morale, training
Internal Process Emphasis
Primary Goal: stability, equilibrium
Subgoals: information management, communication
Rational Goal Emphasis
Primary Goal: productivity, efficiency, profit Subgoals: planning, goal setting
Open Systems Emphasis
Primary Goal: growth, resource acquisitionSubgoals: flexibility, readiness, external evaluation
Flexibility
Control
Internal External
STRUCTURE
FOCUS