Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
CHAPTER 1
Strategic Management
PowerPoint Presentation by Charlie Cook The University of West Alabama 2007 Thomson/South-Western. All rights reserved.
Important Definitions
Strategic Competitiveness
When a firm successfully formulates and implements a value-creating strategy.
Strategy
An integrated and coordinated set of commitments and actions designed to exploit core competencies and gain a competitive advantage.
Competitive Advantage
When a firm implements a strategy that its competitors are unable to duplicate or find too costly to try to imitate.
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Average Returns
Returns equal to those an investor expects to earn from other investments with a similar amount of risk.
Above-average Returns
Returns in excess of what an investor expects to earn from other investments with a similar amount of risk.
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Global Economy
The Global Economy
Goods, people, skills, and ideas move freely across geographic borders. Movement is relatively unfettered by artificial constraints. Expansion into global arena complicates a firms competitive environment.
Short-term: Where is the fastest growth likely to occur? Long-term: Where will sustainable growth occur?
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Increased range of opportunities for companies competing in the 21st-century competitive landscape
Liability of foreignnessthe risks of participating outside of a firms domestic country in the global economy The amount of time required for firms to learn how to compete in markets that are new to them.
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Disruptive Technologies
Technologies that destroy the value of existing technology and create new markets
Perpetual Innovation
The rapidity and consistency with which new, information-intensive technologies replace older ones
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Technological Changes
The Information Age
The ability to effectively and efficiently access and use information has become an important source of competitive advantage. Technology includes personal computers, cellular phones, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, massive databases, electronic networks, internet trade.
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Valuable
Rare
Core Competencies
Nonsubstitutable
Costly to Imitate
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Above-average returns are the fruits of the firms efforts to achieve its vision and mission.
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Stakeholders
Individuals and groups who can affect, and are affected by, the strategic outcomes achieved and who have enforceable claims on a firms performance.
Claims on the firms performance are enforced by the stakeholders ability to withhold participation essential to the firms survival. The more critical and valued a stakeholders participation, the greater a firms dependency on it.
Managers must find ways to either accommodate or insulate the organization from the demands of stakeholders controlling critical resources.
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Strategic Leaders
Strategic Leaders
People located in different parts of the firm who are using the strategic management process to help the firm reach its vision and mission.
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