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Role of the General Manager Flashcards

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What is strategic management?

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An ongoing process that evaluates and evolves a firm’s direction to create and sustain a competitive advantage.

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What are the roles of a general manager?

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Strategy formulation and implementation via assessing performance, setting direction, creating strategy, and implementing change

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What are2 ways to assess firm performance?

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  1. Organizational Health / Operating Performance
  2. Balanced scorecard
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What are operating performance measures?

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Quantitative measures of financial and market performance

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What are organizational health measures?

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Qualitative and quantitative measures of operating performance

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What are the 4 quadrants of the organizational health/operating performance matrix?

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  1. Desired state
  2. Complacent organization
  3. Troubled organization
  4. Crisis
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What quadrant of the performance matrix are you in if you have high organizational health and operating performance?

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Quadrant 1: Desired state

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What quadrant of the performance matrix are you in if you have high organizational health and low operating performance?

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Quadrant 2: Complacent organization

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What quadrant of the performance matrix are you in if you have low organizational health and high operating performance?

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Quadrant 3: Troubled organization

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What quadrant of the performance matrix are you in if you have low organizational health and operating performance?

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Quadrant 4: Crisis

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What are the 4 questions of the balanced scorecard?

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  1. Can we continue to improve and create value? Innovation/Learning
  2. What must we excel at? Internal
  3. How do customers see us? Customer
  4. How do we look to shareholder? Financial
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How does the balanced scorecard work?

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For each of the 4 areas, create key goals with leading and lagging measures attached to them. Data for the measures needs to be timely

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What are some important points to ensure success of the balanced scorecard approach?

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  1. Compensation of managers should be directly linked to the achievement of measures
  2. Must have ongoing support and involvement of senior management
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What are the five types of quantitative financial indicators?

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  1. Profitability ratios
  2. Liquidity ratios
  3. Financial leverage ratios
  4. Asset turnover ratios
  5. Other - dividends, cash flow
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What are some examples of profitability ratios?

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  1. Gross profit margin
  2. Return on assets
  3. Return on equity
  4. Earnings per share
    Trend should be upward for these
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What are some examples of liquidity ratios?

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  1. Current ratio
  2. Quick ratio
  3. Working capital
    Bigger amounts may or may not be better because the company has more internal funds
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What are some examples of financial leverage ratios?

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  1. Debt-to-assets ratio: low fractions are better
  2. Debt-to-equity ratio: should be around or less than 1
  3. Long-term debt to equity ratio: low ratios indicae greater capacity to borrow
  4. Time-interest earned (coverage) ratio: lenders insist minimum of 2.0
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What are some examples of asset turnover ratios?

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  1. Days of inventory: fewer is usually better
    2.Inventory turnover: Higher is better
  2. Average collection period: Shorter is better
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What are some examples of other financial ratios?

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  1. Dividend yield on common stock
  2. Price/earnings ratio
  3. Internal cash flow
  4. Percentage of sale from new products
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What is the purpose of a vision for a company?

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  1. It sets a strong sense of direction for the company
  2. It clearly communicates the purpose of the business
  3. Reinforces day to day actions
  4. Provides direction for strategy formulation
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What is the difference between a vision and a mission?

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  1. A vision is a guiding philosophy while a mission is a tangible image
  2. Mission can be thought of as vision after the influence of the external environment
  3. Vision concerns future business path while mission focuses on present business purpose
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What are the components of a vision?

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  1. Values which are the basic beliefs that guide behaviour
  2. Core beliefs which are the reason for being and are long term
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What is the acid test for a useful vision statement?

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A vision should be desirable and feasible, there should be flexibility in how management gets there and it should be a stretch for the organization to achieve

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How do general managers create value for a company?

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They play a key role in setting long term direction and are accountable for company performance

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