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Strategic Management

Published on Jan 02, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Strategic Management

Sarah Ballard, Carla De Silva, Weston Goggins, Bryce Lawrence, Jon Uland

Brief Overview

  • Competitive Advantage
  • Direction
  • Formulation
  • Implementation
  • Evaluation

Competitive Advantage

What sets you apart?

4 Facets of Competitive Advantage

  • Superior Value
  • Difficulty to imitate
  • Non-substitutable
  • Rarity
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Superior Value

  • Quality
  • Brand Perception
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Difficulty to imitate

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Non-substitutable

  • Market demand
  • Realistic usage situations
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Strategic Vision

What drives you?

Mission Statement

What are you all about?

External Environment

What's going on out there?
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General Environment

  • Sociocultural Forces
  • Technological Forces
  • Economic Forces
  • Political-legal Forces
  • Global Forces
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INTERNAL ANALYSIS

  • Value Chain
  • Primary Activities
  • Support Activities

External Analysis

  • Substitutes
  • Entry Barriers
  • Customers 
  • Suppliers

SWOT Analysis

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

Strategic Objectives

  • Concrete and measurable goals
  • Critical step in strategic management
  • Long term

Levels of Strategy

  • Corporate
  • Business
  • Functional

Generic Strategies

  • Cost leadership
  • Differentiation
  • Focus
  • Integrated differentiation-cost leadership 
  • Multipoint competition

STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION

  • Implementation = materialization
  • Implementation is as important as formulation
  • Average strategies implemented > superb strategies that are not

The Seven "S" Approach

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New Product Strategy

  • Organic Entry
  • Acquisition
  • Strategic Alliances

Evaluation

  • Improves performance 
  • Evaluate management to evaluate objectives
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Remember...

  • Cold = Competitive Advantage
  • Directors = Direction
  • Fire = Formulation
  • Innocent = Implementation
  • Employees = Evaluation

Strategic Management