Managing strategically

7 important questions on Managing strategically

What does managing strategically involve in practice?

Managing strategically looks at internal and external circumstances and comes up with strategies for sustainable competitive advantage, in short it matches unique resources and capabilities to changing external environment circumstances

Describe drivers of business environment

  • Information revolution; immediate availability information, exploit information and knowledge,  knowledge technology driving force business environment
  • Technology- the Internet, social media, personal messaging - affect org, performance
  • Globalisation - global markets and competitors

Implications of drivers new business environment vs Success factors

  1. the continual change
  2. reduced need physical assets - intangible asset as database
  3. vanishing distances and compressed time - whatsapp 
  4. vulnerability - hackers


3 factors critical for Succeeding in a business environment:
  1. ability to embrace change
  2. creativity and innovation capabilities
  3. being world class organisation
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Org. Vision - what is it?

vision is a broad and comprehensive picture of what the org. wants to become. It can motive members of org. to increased level of effort.

What are 4 components of vision?

  1. vision builds on the foundation of org. value and beliefs
  2. vision elaborated a purpose - why org exists
  3. vision explains what org. does
  4. vision specifies goals and guides actions

Compare CSR with Milton Friedman

According to MF extended responsibility is to maximise shareholder returns, CSR must be paid for and add to cost of doing business meaning higher prices

What are ethics and why important?

Principles of what defines right and wrong behaviour. It's more than dealing in compliance with the law. Companies that deal ethical in dealing with customers can meet increased sales: Avon supports breast cancer research

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