STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS POLICY
Strategy implementation- the sum total of all
activities and choices required for the execution of
a strategic plan
• Who are the people to carry out the strategic plan?
• What must be done to align company operations in
the intended direction?
• How is everyone going to work together to do what
is needed?
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Common Strategy Implementation Problems
1. Took more time than planned
2. Unanticipated major problems
3. Poor coordination
4. Competing activities and crises created distractions
5. Employees with insufficient capabilities
6. Poor subordinate training
7. Uncontrollable external environmental factors
8. Poor departmental leadership and direction
9. Inadequately defined implementation tasks and activities
10. Inefficient information system to monitor activities
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Developing Programs, Budgets and Procedures
Programs make strategies action-oriented
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Developing Programs, Budgets and Procedures
Matrix of Change- provides guidance on where,
when and how fast to implement change
Budget- provides the last real check on the feasibility
of the strategy
Procedures (organizational routines)- detail the
various activities that must be carried out to
complete a corporation’s programs
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Achieving Synergy
Synergy– exists for a divisional corporation if the
return on investment is greater than what the
return would be if each division were an
independent business
Forms of Synergy include
• Shared know-how •Economies of scale or scope
• Coordinated strategies •Pooled negotiating power
• Shared tangible resources •New business creation
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Structure Follows Strategy- changes in corporate
strategy lead to changes in organizational structure
1. New strategy is created
2. New administrative problems emerge
3. Economic performance declines
4. New appropriate structure is invented
5. Profit returns to its previous level
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Stages of Corporate Development
I. Simple Structure
• Flexible and dynamic
II. Functional Structure
• Entrepreneur is replaced by a team of managers
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Stages of Corporate Development
III. Divisional Structure
• Management of diverse product lines in numerous industries
• Decentralized decision making
IV. Beyond SBU’s
• Matrix
• Network
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Blocks to Changing Stages
• Internal
– Lack of resources
– Lack of ability
– Refusal of top management to delegate
• External
– Economy
– Labor shortages
– Lack of market growth
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Blocks to Changing Stages
(Entrepreneurs)
• Loyalty
• Task orientation
• Single-mindedness
• Working in isolation
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Organizational Life Cycle- describes how organizations
grow, develop and decline
Stages include:
• Birth
• Growth
• Maturity
• Decline
• Death
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Advanced Types of Organizational Structures
Matrix structures- functional and product forms are
combined simultaneously at the same level of the
organization
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Advanced Types of Organizational Structures
Conditions for Matrix structures include:
• Ideas need to be cross-fertilized across projects or
products
• Scarcity of resources
• Abilities to process information and to make decisions
needs to be improved
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Market development strategy- provides the ability
to:
• Capture a larger market share
– Market saturation
– Market penetration
• Develop new uses and/or markets for current
products
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Advanced Types of Organizational Structures
Phases of Matrix Structure Development
(Davis and Lawrence)
1. Temporary cross-functional task forces
2. Product/brand management
3. Mature matrix
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Advanced Types of Organizational Structures
Network Structure- eliminates in-house business
functions
Cellular/Modular Structure- composed of a series of
project groups or collaborations linked by constantly
changing non-hierarchical electronic networks
• Useful in unstable environments that require
innovation and quick response
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Network Structure
Advantages:
• Increased flexibility and adaptability
• Ability to concentrate on distinctive competencies
Disadvantages:
• Transitional structure
• Availability of numerous partners
• Overspecialization
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Reengineering and Strategy Implementation
Reengineering- the radical redesign of business
processes to achieve major gains in cost, service, or
time
• Program to implement a turnaround strategy
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Principles for Reengineering (Hammer)
• Organize around outcomes, not tasks
• Have those who use the output of the process perform the
process
• Subsume information-processing work into real work that
produces information
• Treat geographically-dispersed resources as though they were
centralized
• Link parallel activities instead of integrating their results
• Put the decision point where the work is performed and build
control into the process
• Capture information once and at the source
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Six Sigma- an analytical method for achieving near
perfect results on a production line
1. Define a process where results are below average
2. Measure the process to determine current performance
3. Analyze the information to determine problems
4. Improve the process and eliminate the error
5. Establish preventive controls
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Lean Six Sigma- incorporates Six Sigma with lean
manufacturing- removes unnecessary production steps
and fixes the remaining steps
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Designing Jobs to Implement Strategy
Job Design- the study of individual tasks in an attempt to
make them more relevant to the company and to the
employees
• Job enlargement
• Job rotation
• Job enrichment model
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International Issues in Strategy Implementation
Multinational Corporation- a highly developed
international company with a deep involvement
throughout the world with a worldwide perspective in
its management and decision making
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Forces for Standardization
• Convergence of customer preferences and incomes
• Competition from other global products
• Growing customer awareness of international brands
• Economies of scale
• Falling trading costs across countries
• Cultural exchange and business interactions among
countries
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Forces for Customization
• Differences in customer preferences
• Differences in customer incomes
• Need to build local brand reputation
• Competition from domestic companies
• Variations in trading costs
• Local regulatory requirements
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International Strategic Alliances
Drivers for strategic fit among alliance partners
• Partners must agree on values and vision
• Alliance must be derived from business, corporate and functional
strategy
• Alliance must be important to partners, especially top
management
• Partners must be mutually dependent for achieving objectives
• Activities must add value
• Alliance must be accepted by stakeholders
• Partners contribute strengths while protecting core competencies
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Stages of International Development
Stage 1: Domestic company
Stage 2: Domestic company with export division
Stage 3: Primarily domestic company with international
division
Stage 4: Multinational corporation with multidomestic
emphasis
Stage 5: Multinational corporation with global emphasis
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Centralization versus Decentralization
Product group structure- enables the company to
introduce and manage a similar line of products
around the world
Geographic area structure- allows the company to
tailor products to regional differences and to achieve
regional coordination
Multinational corporations are moving from geographic
area to product group structures
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1. How should a corporation attempt to achieve synergy
among functions and business units?
2. How should an owner-manager prepare a company for
its movement from Stage I to Stage II?
3. How can a corporation keep from sliding into the Decline
stage of the organizational life cycle?
4. Is reengineering just another fad, or does it offer
something of lasting value?
5. How is the cellular/modular structure different from the
network structure?
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