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SM CH1
Question | Answer |
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What is Strategic Management? | The set of decisions and actions that result in the formulation and implementation of plans designed to achieve a company’s objectives |
What is Strategy? | Large-scale, future-oriented plan for interacting with competitive environment to achieve objectives |
Dimensions of strategic management | req. companys resources, involve multibuss and multifx, future oriented, have to take into consideration ext envrirorment, affect company long term prosperity, |
Characteristics of strategic management decisions | corporate level: long term decision, flexible funtional: words into action business: link between the two and resources, risk and potentiol profitability like A B C |
Formality in Strategic Management | degree to which people roles, authority and responsabilty in decision making is specified depends on the firm; size, style of management and ext envirorment |
The strategy makers and role of ceo | ceo, heads of fx area, and product managers, responsable of company succ or decay, guidanc from oard of directors,long termn orientation |
benefits and risk of stat making | benefits: less overlapping of employees task, avility to prevent problems, reduces resistance to change risk: to many thinking no action, the planners are not in the implementation so nobady is really responsable |
draw and explain the component | 11 |
implication of the sm process | changes in one component affect others, needs feedback, must be seen as a dynamic process |