Theme 3 Flashcards

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Mission statement

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The overall reason for a businesses existence

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Corporate aims

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The long term targets and plans to fulfill the mission statement

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Corporate objectives

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The medium to long term quantifiable targets to fulfill the mission statements

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Corporate strategy

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The actions to be taken by the business to achieve its objectives

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Ansoffs matrix

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Existing. New

Existing MP. PD

New MD. D

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Porter’s strategic matrix

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Lowest cost. Highest diffe.

Mass market. CL. D

Niche market. FCL. FD

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Kay’s way to achieving competitive advantage

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Architecture - relationship with stakeholders

Reputation - based on customer experience

Innovation - new products and processes

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Porter’s 5 forces

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  1. Industry rivalry
  2. Threat of new entry
  3. Buyer power
  4. Threat of substitution
  5. Supplier power
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Horizontal intergration

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When a company joins with similar businesses in the same field to help them grow or lessen competition

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Vertical intergration

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When a company controls different stages of making a product to make things more efficient and cheaper

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Reasons for staying small

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  • more personalised service
  • response quickly
  • rapid growth can cause diseconomies if scale
  • owners goal is not profit maximisation
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Short termism

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The business is only interested in a quick financial reward

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Long termism

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Considers ethical behaviour of the business in decision making + incorporates CSR

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Evidence-based decision making

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Decisions are based on evidence and data - valued and trusted

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Subjective decision making

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Decisions based in feelings, opinions and personal perspectives

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Handy’s Power culture

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Spider on web = manager at the heat of the business

Central figure making decisions

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Handy’s role culture

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Bank = red tape in the rigid organisation

Decisions made through well-established rules and decisions

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Handy’s task culture

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Matrix = series of work teams in a large organisation

Involves team work on a project

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Handy’s person culture

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Petri dish = symbolises employees in an organisation that are autonomous and skilled

Work on a client by client basis rather than project basis like task culture

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Changes must be

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R realistic
A achievable
M measurable

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Planned change

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Change which is planned by the top management of the business

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Emergent change

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Change that happens at any level in the organisation and is the result of an event or need

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Dr Kotter’s 8 steps

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  1. Create a sense of urgency
  2. Build a guiding coalition
  3. Form a strategic vision and initiatives
  4. Enlist a volunteer army
  5. Enable action by removing barriers
  6. Generate short-term wins
  7. Sustain acceleration
  8. Institutes change
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kay’s distinctive capabilities can be tested using 3 questions

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  1. Do they allow for market development?
  2. Do they provide noticeable benefits to the end user?
  3. Are they difficult to imitate?
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SWOT - Strengths and Weaknesses
- Financial performance - Resource management - Human resource management - Marketing - Culture of the business - Corporate social responsibilities and ethics
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SWOT - Opportunities and Threats (PESTLE)
- Economic environment - Political and legal environment - Degree of competition - Technological change - Legislation - Consumer trends - Demographics
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Time-series analysis
- part of quantitative sales forecasting - this uses historical data, smoothed out, to make better predictions for the future.
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5 steps of evidence-based decision making
Step 1: Ask - translate a problem into a question. Step 2: Acquire the evidence. Step 3: Appraise the evidence. Step 4: Apply the evidence to the problem. Step 5: Assess the outcome of the decision.
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
A business approach that contributes to sustainable development by delivering economic, social, and environmental benefits for all stakeholders.
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Scenario planning
- The process of looking at potential future situations and planning for those events. - The idea is that if we look creatively at what the future could look like (e.g., energy needs), the drivers and implications that a business can create a series of strategies to handle those situations.
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Risk acceptance
- The balance between risk and reward is the very essence of the business: without taking risks companies cannot generate profits. - Difference between calculated risks, taken with planning and careful judgement, and risks taken carelessly and unwittingly.
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Risk avoidance
The elimination of hazards, activities and exposures that can negatively affect an organisation's assets.
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Risk management
Aims to control the damages and financial consequences of threatening events.
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Risk limitation
Some risks are both identifiable and manageable, they can be limited by: - becoming an Ltd. to gain limited liability. - Having plenty of insurance. - Managing data carefully.
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Risk transference
A business will buy insurance, for example: PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE - Covers the business for claims made against the business by a client or member of the public for accidental injury. EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY - Protects the business if an employee is injured and the business has been negligent.