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1Strategic Planning – MBA Sharif – Dr. Sepehri – Spring 1385

Strategic Planning

Spring 1385-86

Dr. Mehran SepehriDr. Ali KermanshahGraduate School of Management

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Session 1 – Saturday 14th Bahman 85• Strategic Planning Fundamentals• Definitions, Terms, and Terminology• Overview of Concepts and Importance

Strategic Management: Concepts & Cases11th Edition, Fred David, Prentice Hall, 2006

Chapter 1 The Nature of Strategic Management

What Is Strategy andWhy Is It Important?What goes into Strategy?

What Is Strategy andWhy Is It Important?What goes into Strategy?

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Fred R. David, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized strategic planning scholar, author, and consultantHe received a BS and MBA degree from Wake Forest University and a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of South Carolina. He is the Tran-South Professor of Strategic Management at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina.His Strategic Management textbook, is used in more than 400 colleges and universities to teach strategic planning. The textbook is very practitioner and skills-oriented. This book has been translated into Farsi, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese and is widely used worldwide.

About the Author:

Fred R. David, Ph.D..

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Themes in 11th ed. of the Text

• Global Considerations –impact virtually all strategic decisions• E-commerce –vital strategic management tool

•Natural environment –important strategic issue

• Why Strategic Management Is a Process?• Who Performs the Tasks of Strategy?• Benefits of “Managing Strategically”?• Terms to Remember!

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Power of Saying No!

Case of Start-up companyExcellent at OperationsTrying to please everyoneDoing a bit of everythingWorking harder, not smarter

Not growing, little profitNo focus, no directionLosing to specialty stores

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Prime Task of Strategic Management

Peter Drucker: -- Think through the overall mission of a business. Ask the key question: “What is our Business?”

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سازماني هايچالش

كنشي رفتار جاي به رفتار واكنشي

فرهنگ تفكر در مورد آينده عدم وجود

و اطمينان کارکنان از آينده سازمان عدم آگاهي

داخلي هاي نيروي همسويي عدم

سازمان رهبران و کارکنان هاي دغدغه بين انفکاک

ها استراتژي با اهداف و سازماني ساختار همگوني نا

اهداف به دستيابي راستاي متوازن منابع در تخصيص عدم

کارکنان ارزيابي براي مناسب مبناي وجود عدم

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Thinking Strategically:The Three Big Strategic Questions1. Where are we now?2. Where do we want to go?

Business(es) to be in and market positions to stake outBuyer needs and groups to serveOutcomes to achieve

3. How will we get there?A company’s answer to “how will we get there?” is its strategy

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Strategic Management –Defined

Art & science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating, cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives

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ريزي استراتژيكبرنامه تعاريف

، يك سازمان اعضاء كه با راهنمايي دائمي و نظام مندي فرآيند

و ها رويه همچنين و نمايد اتخاذ مي آينده در مورد را تصميماتي

و دهد توسعه مي را مورد نظر آينده نيل به نياز جهت عمليات مورد

.نمايد تعيين مي موفقيت را گيري اندازه نحوه

اي مختلف، وظيفه تصميمات ارزيابي تدوين، اجراء و هنر و علم استراتژيك نيل به اهداف راستاي در سازمان كمك به جهت

سازمان مدت بلند نيل به اهداف ابزار

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Strategic Management

In essence, the strategic plan is a company’s game plan

It is fundamental planning, away from daily operations to bring focus & direction

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Strategic Management achieves a firm’s success through integration ––

Management

MIS

Production/OperationsFinance/Accounting

Marketing

Research & Development

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What Is Strategy?

Consists of the combination of competitive moves and business approaches used by managers to run the companyManagement’s “game plan” to

Attract and please customersStake out a market positionCompete successfullyGrow the business

Achieve targeted objectives

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The Hows ThatDefine a Firm's StrategyThe Hows ThatDefine a Firm's Strategy

How to please customersHow to respond to changing market conditionsHow to outcompete rivalsHow to grow the businessHow to manage each functional piece of the business and develop needed organizational capabilitiesHow to achieve strategic and financial objectives

Strategyis HOWto . . .

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The What of a Company’s StrategyThe What of a Company’s Strategy

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استراتژيك مديريت فرايندهاي زير

است است سه مرحله سه مرحله شامل شامل استراتژيك استراتژيك مديريت مديريت فرآيند فرآيند رحط

يتژراستي ايزر

و ها

ي يابرزا

آن

ي رااج

ي تژراستا

ي يابرزا

ق حق ت

ي تژراستا

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Vision & Mission

Strategy Formulation

External Opportunities & Threats

Internal Strengths & Weaknesses

Long-Term Objectives

Alternative Strategies

Strategy Selection

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Issues in Strategy Formulation

New business opportunities

Businesses to abandonAllocation of resourcesExpansion or

diversificationInternational marketsMergers or joint venturesAvoidance of hostile

takeover

New business opportunities

Businesses to abandonAllocation of resourcesExpansion or

diversificationInternational marketsMergers or joint venturesAvoidance of hostile

takeover

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Strategy Implementation

Annual Objectives

Policies

Employee Motivation

Resource Allocation

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Strategy Implementation

Action Stage of Strategic Management –

Most difficult stageMobilization of employees

& managersInterpersonal skills

criticalConsensus on goal

pursuit

Action Stage of Strategic Management –

Most difficult stageMobilization of employees

& managersInterpersonal skills

criticalConsensus on goal

pursuit

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Strategy Evaluation

Internal Review

External Review

Performance Metrics

Corrective Actions

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Strategy Evaluation

Final Stage of Strategic Management

Subject to future modification

Today’s success no guarantee of future success

New & different problemsComplacency leads to

demise

Final Stage of Strategic Management

Subject to future modification

Today’s success no guarantee of future success

New & different problemsComplacency leads to

demise

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Tasks of Strategic Management

Develop aStrategic

Vision& Mission

Improve/Change

Revise asNeeded

Revise asNeeded

Improve/Change

Recycleas Needed

Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Task 5

Evaluate & Make

Corrections

Implement& ExecuteStrategy

Craft aStrategy

to AchieveObjectives

SetObjectives

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Developing a Vision and Mission

Begins with thinking strategically aboutThe firm’s future business makeup Where to take the firm

The task is toCreate a roadmap of a company’s futureDecide what future business position to stake outProvide long-term directionGive the firm a strong identity

The First Task of Strategic Management

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Missions vs. Strategic Visions

A missionstatement focuses on currentbusiness activities

Business(es) company is in nowCustomer needs currently being served

A strategic vision concerns a firm’sfuture business path

The kind of company it is trying to becomeCustomer needs to be satisfied in the future

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Competitive Advantage

“Strategic Management is Gaining & Maintaining Competitive Advantage”

“Anything that a firm does especially well compared to rival firms”

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Achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage

1. Adapting to change in external trends, internal capabilities and resources

2. Effectively formulating, implementing & evaluating strategies

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Integrating Intuition and Analysis

The strategic management process attempts to organize quantitative and qualitative information under conditions of uncertainty

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Integrating Intuition and Analysis

Intuition is based on:Past experiencesJudgmentFeelings

Intuition is useful for decision making in:Conditions of great uncertaintyConditions with little precedent

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Integrating Intuition & Analysis

Involve Management at all levels

Intuition & Judgment

Influence all Analyses

Analytical Thinking

Intuitive Thinking

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Adapting to Change

Organizations must monitor eventsOn-going processInternal and external eventsTimely changes

Effective Adaptation

Requires long-term focus

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Adapting to Change

Rate & magnitude of change increasing dramatically

E-commerce

Demographics

Technology

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Adapting to Change – Key Strategic Management Questions

What kind of business should we become?Are we in the right fieldsAre there new competitors?What strategies should we pursue?How are our customers changing?

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Key Terms

Various Job Titles:

•Chief Executive Officer (CEO)•Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)•President•Owner•Board Chair•Executive Director

Strategists – Firm’s success/failure

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Key Terms

Vision Statement –What do we want to become?

Mission Statement –What is our business?

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Key Terms

Opportunities and Threats (External)

Largely beyond the control of a single organization

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Opportunities & Threats (External)Analysis of Trends:

• Economic

• Social

• Cultural

• Demographic/Environmental

• Political, Legal, Governmental

• Technological

• Competitors

Key Terms

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Key Terms Opportunities & Threats

Environmental Scanning (Industry Analysis)

Process of conducting research and gathering and assimilating external information

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Key Terms Opportunities & Threats

Basic Tenet of Strategic Management

Strategy Formulation

Take advantage of External Opportunities

Take advantage of External Opportunities

Avoid/minimize impact ofExternal Threats

Avoid/minimize impact ofExternal Threats

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Key Terms

Strengths & Weaknesses (Internal)

Controllable activities performed especially well or poorly

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Key Terms

Strengths & Weaknesses (Internal)

Typically located in functional areas of the firm

• Management

• Marketing

• Finance/Accounting

• Production/Operations

• Research & Development

• Computer Information Systems

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Key Terms Strengths & WeaknessesAssessing the Internal Environment

Internal FactorsPerformance Metrics

Financial Ratios

Industry Averages

Survey Data

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Key Terms

Long-term Objectives

Mission-driven pursuit of specified results more than one year out

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Key Terms

Long-term Objectives

Essential for ensuring the firm’s success

• Provide direction

• Aid in evaluation

• Create synergy

• Focus coordination

• Basis for planning, motivating, and controlling

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Key Terms

Strategies

Means by which long-term objectives are achieved

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Key Terms

Strategies

Some Examples

• Geographic expansion

• Diversification

• Acquisition

• Market penetration

• Retrenchment

• Liquidation

• Joint venture

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Key Terms

Annual Objectives

Short-term milestones that firms must achieve to attain long-term objectives

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Key Terms

Policies

Means by which annual objectives will be achieved

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Example Strategies in Action in 2005

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Example Strategies in Action in 2005

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Comprehensive strategic management model

ExternalAudit

Chapter 3

InternalAudit

Chapter 4

Long-TermObjectives

Chapter 5

Generate,Evaluate,

SelectStrategies

Chapter 6

ImplementStrategies:

Mgmt Issues

Chapter 7

ImplementStrategies:Marketing,Fin/Acct,R&D, CISChapter 8

Measure &Evaluate

Performance

Chapter 9

Vision&

Mission

Chapter 2

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Strategic Management Model

Strategic Management Process

Dynamic & ContinuousMore formal in larger organizations

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Strategic Management Model

1. Identify Existing --

• Vision

• Mission

• Objectives

• Strategies

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Strategic Management Model

2. Audit external environment3. Audit internal environment4. Establish long-term objectives5. Generate, evaluate & select

strategies6. Implement selected strategies7. Measure & evaluate performance

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Benefits of Strategic Management

• Proactive in shaping firm’s future

• Initiate and influence firm’s activities

• Formulate better strategies•Systematic, logical, rational

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Benefits of Strategic Management

Financial Benefits

• Improvement in sales

• Improvement in profitability

• Productivity improvement

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Benefits of Strategic Management

Non-Financial Benefits

• Improved understanding of competitors strategies

• Enhanced awareness of threats

• Reduced resistance to change

• Enhanced problem-prevention capabilities

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Benefits of Strategic Management (Greenley)

1. Identification of Opportunities

2. Objective view of management problems

3. Improved coordination & control

4. Minimizes adverse conditions & changes

5. Decisions that better support objectives

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Benefits of Strategic Management (Greenley – cont’d)

6. Effective allocation of time & resources

7. Internal communication among personnel

8. Integration of individual behaviors

9. Clarify individual responsibilities

10. Encourage forward thinking

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Benefits of Strategic Management (Greenley – cont’d)

11. Encourages favorable attitude toward change

12. Provides discipline and formality to the management of the business

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Why Some Firms Do NoStrategic Planning

Poor reward structures

Fire-fighting

Waste of time

Too expensive

Laziness

Content with success

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Why Some Firms Do NoStrategic Planning

Fear of failure

Overconfidence

Prior bad experience

Self-interest

Fear of the unknown

Suspicion

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Business Ethics & Strategic Management

Business Ethics defined –

Principles of conduct within organizations that guide decision making and behavior

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Business Ethics & Strategic Management

Good business ethics –

Prerequisite for good strategic management

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Business Ethics & Strategic Management

Code of business ethics –

Provides basis on which policies can be devised to guide daily behavior and decisions in the workplace

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Business Ethics & Strategic Management

Business practices always considered unethical –

Misleading advertisingMisleading labelingHarm to the environmentInsider tradingDumping flawed products on foreign marketsPoor product or service safetyPadding expense accounts

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Natural Environment Perspective

ISO used to gain strategic advantage

ISO 9000 focuses on quality control> 1.5 million companies incorporate ISO

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Natural Environment Perspective

Voluntary standards ISO 14001 standard for Environmental Management SystemFirms minimize harmful effects on environment

ISO 14000 standards

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The Nature of Global Competition

International/multinational corporations

Parent companyHost country

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The Nature of Global Competition

Strategy implementation may be difficult

Cultural differencesNormsValuesWork ethic

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Advantages of International OperationsAbsorb excess capacity

Reduce unit costs

Spread risk over wider markets

Low-cost production facilitiesLess intense competition

Lower taxes

Economies of scale

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Disadvantages of International Operations

Difficult communications

Underestimate foreign competition

Cultural barriers to effective management

Complications arising from currency differences