chap 1: strategic management model Flashcards
What does the 21st century epitomize?
The reality of dynamism.
The 21st century epitomizes the reality of dynamism.
What state is today’s milieu in?
A state of fluidity.
In fact, today’s milieu is in a state of fluidity.
Is the certainty of change universal?
Yes.
The certainty of change is universal.
What is the current landscape of competition like?
Highly threatening and daunting.
The current landscape of competition is highly threatening and daunting.
Is a fundamental feature of new company?
Hypercompetition
Occurs when product/service offerings and technologies are so new that standards become unstable and competitive advantage is not sustainable.
Hypercompetition
Is a condition whereby strategic maneuverings have escalated to bigger business exposure, more sophisticated marketing positioning, aggressive selling, and innovative products and services.
Hypercompetition
It is a situation where both globalization and technology collaborate to create a heightened cut-throat situation.
Hypercompetition
Is a continuous process of strategy creation.
Strategic Management
It involves strategic processes like strategic analysis and decision-making, strategy formulation and implementation, and strategic control, with the primary objectives of achieving and maintaining better alignment of corporate policies, priorities, and success.
Strategic Management
Consists of a systematic evaluation of variables currently existing in the external and internal environments.
Strategic Analysis
Is deliberately bringing together the right resources for the right markets at the right time.
Strategic decision-making
Is designing strategies on the business and corporate levels.
Strategy formulation
Is employing these crafted strategies to achieve organizational set goals and objectives.
Strategy Implementation
Is the application of an appropriate monitoring and feedback system.
Strategic control
If strategic analysis is accurately conducted, organizations can develop what?
Strategic intelligence
is the capability of an organization to possess relevant and related knowledge, abilities, foresight, and systems thinking such that it is able to assess its own strengths and vulnerabilities, the pressing challenges confronting the organization, as well as the trends and opportunities existing in the environment.
Strategic Intelligence
If strategic decision-making is correctly effected, organizations can acquire the capability of what?
Strategic thinking
Is the cognitive process of competently and analytically weighing factors and arriving at critical decisions in the context of the current milieu of which an organization is part
Strategic thinking
If strategic formulation is uniquely designed and effectively communicated, organizations have greater possibilities of attaining what?
Organizational competitiveness
Pertains to the ability of any business or company to utilize its resources optimally and sustainably for maximum performance and productivity.
Organizational competitiveness
If strategic implementation is efficiently employed, organizations can achieve what?
Comparative advantage
Refers to the ability of an organization to produce a particular good or service at lower marginal and opportunity costs than its competitors.
Comparative advantage
If strategic control is productively monitored, organizations can realize what?
Strategic performance is the accomplishment of a high level of productivity that is characterized by efficiency in the context of lean and quantifiable management.