Finals Flashcards
A plan designed to achieve a long-term aim
Strategy
The planning and directing of military activity in a war or battle.
Strategy
The pattern or plan that integrates a nation’s or organization’s major goals, policies, and action sequences into a chosen whole.
Strategy
The way or plan of attaining technological goals and technological changes
Technology Strategy
Formulated at the national level and at the enterprise level
Technology Strategies
Technology Strategies are formulated at which levels?
National and Enterprise
Involves externalized oriented strategy
Techonology Strategy at National Level
Strategy that aims at seeking technological development with an objective to tap external market
Techonology Strategy at National Level
Technology Strategy at National Level aims at seeking tech development with an objective to?
Tap external market
Has a restricted role for FDI
Techonology Strategy at National Level
This seeks to foster or encourage indigineous technology development
Techonology Strategy at National Level
An example of this is developing domestic technology capabilities in general or in selected strategic industries
Techonology Strategy at National Level
Some examples are minority joint ventures with minor share to collaborator, tech assistance to domestic firms, and encouraging import of capital goods
Techonology Strategy at National Level
A formal set of enterprise intentions that allocates available resources and sets priorities based on clearly stated technological and enterprise objectives and a perceived environment in which ths process is to be embedded. (Bentz, Martino, & Mintzberg)
Techonology Strategy at Enterprise Level
What are the 3 factors that influence an enterprise’s technology strategy? (Porter)
1) Sustainability of technological lead: Technological leadership can be sustained only if competitors cannot copy it.
2) First mover advantages: Enterprise gets many advantages like increased reputation, pre-empting competition, early profits, new sales etc. (Lakas ng companies when releasing new products)
3) First mover disadvantages: Certain disadvantages and risks can adversly affect the first mover like cost of regulatory approvals, cost of educating buyers, demand uncertainty, low cost imitation by competitors, risk of technological discontinuities of existing technology / products / processes. (Challenges: Government regulations)
Based on factor analysis, an enterprise may adopt any of the following tech strategies:
1) Technology Leadership Strategy – Under this strategy, a firm seeks to be the first to introduce technological changes / innovations.
2) Technology Followership Strategy – A conscious & active strategy, by which a firm chooses not to be first on innovations.
Technological leadership can be sustained only if competitors cannot copy it.
Sustainability of technological lead
Enterprise gets many advantages like increased reputation, pre-empting competition, early profits, new sales etc. (Lakas ng companies when releasing new products)
First mover advantages
Certain disadvantages and risks can adversly affect the first mover like cost of regulatory approvals, cost of educating buyers, demand uncertainty, low cost imitation by competitors, risk of technological discontinuities of existing technology / products / processes. (Challenges: Government regulations)
First mover disadvantages
What directly influences technology generation in a nation?
The government technology policy framework
What sets the direction for technology development in the organization and to some extent also influences the same of competitors?
The technology strategy of the organization
Technology develops through a process of?
Creativity, Invention, and Innovation.
At which level is generation of technology both an individual & group activity, but its management is solely an organizational responsibility and activity?
Organizational/Enterprise Level
T or F. At organizational / enterprise level, generation of technology is an organizational responsibility and activity, but its management is both individual and group activity.
F.
Generation of tech is both an individual and group activity but management is solely an organizational responsibility and activity.
What summarizes four major stages in the evolution of performance characteristics?
S Curve of Technology Evolution
What are the four major stages in the evolution of performance characteristics?
1) Emergence: when the new technology comes into existence, but shows little improvement in its performance characteristics (takes time before it fully develops)
2) Rapid Improvement: When performance characteristics improve at an accelerating pace
3) Declining Improvement: When the pace of improvement declines (decline due to environment)
4) Maturity: When further improvements become very difficult to achieve
This stage is when the new technology comes into existence, but shows little improvement in its performance characteristics (takes time before it fully develops)
Emergence
This stage is when performance characteristics improve at an accelerating pace.
Rapid Improvement
This stage is when the pace of improvement declines (decline due to environment).
Declining Improvement
This stage happens when further improvements become very difficult to achieve.
Maturity
S Curve Technological Evolution occurs due to:
1) Learning processes – which, in the first stage, generates more or less stable design and process and in the second stage generates rapid improvements (when introducing new processes, give time for employees to adjust / learning curve)
2) Technology Limits – Once a technology reaches full potential, technology limits come into play during later stages. These technology limits are also known as Technology Frontiers – as called by Dosi. In later stages, radical breakthrough occurs, as a result new technology emerges which replaces existing technology, This is known as Technology Progression
3) The performance of the newer technology initially is lower than that of the older technology, but because of their relative positions on their respective S-curves, the performance of the newer technology soon surpasses that of the older
In the first stage, generates more or less stable design and process and in the second stage generates rapid improvements (when introducing new processes, give time for employees to adjust / learning curve)
Learning Processes
Once a technology reaches full potential, this come into play during later stages.
Technology Limits
These technology limits are also known as ________ as called by Dosi.
Technology Frontiers
In later stages, radical breakthrough occurs, as a result, new technology emerges which replaces existing technology
Technology Progression
Concerns the selection and management of a mix of businesses competing in several industries or product markets.
Corporate Level Strategy
It is the way a company creates value through the configuration and coordination of multi-market activities.
Corporate Level Strategy
T or F. To add economic value, a corporate strategy should enable a company, or one of its business units, to perform one or more of the value creation functions at a higher cost, or in a way which supports a differentiation advantage.
F.
Value creation functions should be at a lower cost.
What are the two issues that a manager needs to separate in order to avoid confusion on the vertical coordination problem?
1) Issue #1: What is the objective for vertical coordination? Or put differently, what efficiencies, risk sharing, or market power advantage are being sought?
2) Issue #2: What organization form (e.g. vertical contracts, equity joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions) best achieves the desired objective/s?
What are the 2 major reasons to do vertical integration?
Market Power (Increase Revenue)
Efficiency (Lower Cost)
1) Specialized assets & the holdup problem
2) Protecting product quality
3) Improved scheduling
These fall under what reason for vertical integration?
Efficiency (Lower Cost)
1) Entry Barriers
2) Down-stream price maintenance
3) Up-stream power over price
These fall under what reason for vertical integration?
Market Power (Increase Revenue)
In optimal input procurement, if there is no substantial specialized investments relative to contracting costs, what occurs/must be done?
Spot Exchange
In optimal input procurement, if there is a substantial specialized investment relative to contracting costs, AND there is no complex contracting environment relative to costs of ingtegration, what occurs/must be done?
Contract
In optimal input procurement, if there is a substantial specialized investment relative to contracting costs, AND there is a complex contracting environment relative to costs of integration, what occurs/must be done?
Vertical Integration
What are the 3 risks in undertaking cooperative agreements or strategic alliances?
1) Adverse Selection
2) Moral Hazard
3) Holdup
Which risk in undertaking cooperative agreements or strategic alliances occurs when partners misrepresent skills, ability, and other resources?
Adverse Selection
Which risk in undertaking cooperative agreements or strategic alliances occurs when partners provide lower quality skills and abilities than they had promised?
Moral Hazard
Which risk in undertaking cooperative agreements or strategic alliances occurs when partners exploit the transaction specific investment made by others in the alliance?
Holdup
What are the 3 motivations for diversification?
1) Value Enhancing Motives
2) Motives that are “Value Neutral”
3) Motives that “Devaluate”
Which motivation for diversification increases market power and involves R&D and new product development?
Value Enhancing Motives
In value enhancing motives, what do you call the development or developing or new competencies?
Stretching
In value enhancing motives, what do you call the transfer or transferring of core competencies?
Leveraging
What are the 3 examples of transferring core competencies?
1) Utilizing excess capacity
2) Economies of Scope
3) Leveraging Brand Name
Which motivation for diversification involves being motivated by poor economic performance in current businesses?
Motivations that are “Value Neutral”