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AND STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT
G. Tyge Payne, PhD
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Strategic Management
Strategy: The unifying theme that gives coherence and
direction to the decisions of an organization
Strategic Management: Consisting of the analysis,
decisions, and actions an organization undertakes in
order to create and sustain competitive advantages.
Or, the Strategic Management Process is:
The full set of commitments, decisions, and actions
required for a firm to create value and earn above-
average returns. (Hitt, Hoskinson, & Ireland, 2004, p. 4)
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More Recent Historical
Development of Business Strategy
• Not until very large companies with the ability to influence the
competitive environment within their industries did strategic
thinking in the business world begin to be articulated.
– Alfred Sloan, CEO of GM, 1923 – 1946 - One of the first to analyze competition,
Ford, and devise a strategic plan based on its strengths and weaknesses.
– Chester Barnard, Senior Executive of New Jersey Bell, 1930s - Argued managers
should pay attention to “strategic factors” which depend on “personal or
organizational action.”
• Wartime (WWI and WWII) efforts also impacted strategic
thinking and use of formal strategic tools and concepts:
– Allocation of scarce resources
– Use of quantitative analysis in planning
– The concept of “learning curves”
– The concept of “distinctive competence” - first mentioned by Philip Selznick, a
sociologist, in a debate about whether or not to combine the military forces into a
single unit (i.e., no Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, just the US Military).
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More Historical Development
• It wasn’t until the 1950’s that strategy was truly introduced in business
schools as a way of analyzing the competitive environment and setting
organizational goals and objectives to fit that environment.
• These concepts serve as the foundation of strategic management study:
– Previous “Business Policy” perspectives looked at maintaining a “balance in
accord with the underlying policies of the business as a whole.” – Harvard
– Kenneth Andrews’ SWOT Analysis was developed – still in use today.
– Theodore Levitt’s “Marketing Myopia” argued that when companies fail it
typically is because firms focus on the product rather than the changing
patterns of consumer needs and tastes.
– Igor Ansoff argued, in response to Levitt, that a firm’s mission should exploit
an existing need in the market, rather than using the consumer as the common
thread in business. “In reality a given type of customer will frequently have a
range of product missions or needs.” Corporate Strategy, 1965.
– BCG developed the “experience curve” and portfolio analysis concepts.
– McKinsey & Company’s development of SBUs and the nine-block matrix.
– Mintzberg’s “Deliberate, Emergent & Realized Strategies”
– Porter’s Generic Strategies 6
The Evolution of Strategic Management
1950s 1960s-early 70s Mid-70s-mid-80s Late 80s –1990s 2000s
New Market
Diversification
Mission Development
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Why is SM, as a field of study, necessary?
Why are all these theories/tools needed ?
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Thinking Strategically:
The Three Big Strategic “Analysis” Questions
Implementation Implementation
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Four Assumptions of the I/O Model
1. The external environment is assumed to possess
pressures and constraints that determine the strategies
that would result in above-average returns.
2. Most firms competing within a particular industry are
assumed to control similar strategically relevant
resources and to pursue similar strategies in light of those
resources.
3. Resources used to implement strategies are highly mobile
across firms.
4. Organizational decision makers are assumed to be
rational and committed to acting in the firm’s best
interests, as shown by their profit-maximizing behaviors.
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Our Approach to Studying the Strategic
Management Process
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Formulating
FormulatingDirections
Directions Organizational Culture
--Develop
DevelopVision/Mission
Vision/Mission(1)
(1) Stakeholder Influence
-Set
-SetObjectives
Objectives(2)
(2) Values / Ethics
(6)
Control(6)
Strategic
StrategicAnalyses
Analyses(3)
(3) from Economic, Political,
Technological etc Sources
External Environment
Strategic
Stakeholder Influence
Values / Ethics
Implementation
Strategy
StrategyFormulation
Formulation(4)
(4)
-Formulate
-Formulateand
andConsider
Consider Context of Strategy
(type of organization, culture, values,
Alternatives
Alternatives life cycle competitive position)
-Make
-MakeStrategy
StrategyChoice
Choice 19
Birnbaum’s Strategy 21 Process
Similar to
• Examine the Current Business Model Internal and
Competitive
• Go Beyond the Current Business Model Analysis
• Design a “Grand Strategy”
Similar to
• Develop a Compelling Vision Internal and
• Assure Enablers of Strategy Competitive
• Intellectual Capacity Analysis
• Processes Basic Decision
• Organizational Structures Strategic to Make Major
• Technologies Formulation and Change or Not
• Implementation
External Relationships
• Capital Resources
Related Issues to
• Set Objectives to Measure Success Monitor
• Design a Monitoring Process Implementation
Process 20
Hambrick & Fredrickson, 2001
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The Strategy Concept
Levels of Analysis
C o rp o ra te
• Where to Compete? S tra te g y
B u s in e s s
• How to Compete? S tra te g y
C h o ic e o f P r o d u c ts
C h o ic e o f M a r k e ts
C h o ic e o f C o m p e tito r s
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INDUSTRY
ATTRACTIVENESS
Which CORPORATE
RATE OF PROFIT businesses STRATEGY
ABOVE THE should we be
COMPETITIVE in?
LEVEL
How do we
make
money? COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE
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