Chapter 10 Flashcards
What is a diversification strategy
Based on a company’s decision to enter one or more new industries to take advantage of its existing distinctive competencies and business models
What are the affects of diversification
Can create or destroy value
What does a diversified strategy enable a company to do
- Lower cost
- Greater differentiation
- Manage industry Rivalry
What are three different ways a company can implement a diversification strategy
- Internal new ventures
- Acquisitions
- Joint ventures
What is a diversified company
One that makes and sells products in 2 or more different distinct industries
How is a company successful
Generating cash flow and profits
What does management do with cashflow
Decide whether their cash can be a form of a higher dividends or invest in diversification
What is the expected outcome on diversification opportunities
Future ROIC must exceed the value of shareholders
What is a better off test
Company must be more valuable than it was before the diversification
How can diversification increase profitability
- Transfer competencies between business units in different industries
- Leverages competencies to create business units in new industries
- Shares resources between business units to realize synergies or economies of scope
- Utilizes general organizational competencies that increase the performance of all company’s business units
What are leveraging competencies
Company can develop a new business in a different industry
What are utilizes general or organizational competencies
- Entrepreneurial capabilities
- Organizational Design capabilities
- Strategic capabilities
What are the steps of transferring competencies
- R&D
- Production
- Marketing and sales
- Customer Service
How can diversification increase profits
- Transfer competencies between business units in different industries
- Leverage competencies to create business units in new industries
- Share resources between business units to realize synergies or economies scope
- Utilize general organizational competencies that increase performance of all company’s business units
What is economies of scope
One or more business units are able to realize cost savings because they can effectively pool, share and utilize expensive resources or capabilities
What are transferring competencies
Process of taking distinctive competency developed by a business unit in one industry and implanting it in a business unit
What are commonality
A skill or competency that when shared by two or more business units allows them to operate more effectively and create more value for customers
How can companies obtain economies of scope
Must be a significant commonalities between one or more value chain functions in a company’s business unit to increase profits
What is product bundling
- Allows a company to satisfy customers needs for a complete package of related products
- Customers want convenience
- Often does not require joint ownership
What are the ways to improve the performance of an acquired company
- Top managers of the acquired company are replaced with a more aggressive top management team
- New top management team sells off expensive assets
- New management team devises new strategies to improve the performance of the operations of the acquired business and improve its efficiency, quality, innovativeness and customer responsiveness
- Motivate the new top management team and other employees of the acquired company to work towards goals, companywide, pay for performance bonus system linked to profits
How can companies promote entrepreneurship
- Encourage managers to take risks
- Give managers time and resources to pursue novel ideas
- Not punish managers when a new idea fails
- Make sure that the companies free cash flow is not wasted in pursuing too many risky ventures that have lower probability in generating profit
What are the organizational design skills
A result of managers ability to create a structure, culture and control systems that motivate and coordinate employees to perform at a higher level
What are strategic capabilities
Important governance skill to diagnose the underlying source of the problems of a poorly performing business unit and understand how to proceed to solve problems