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Policy Exam 1
John Hengesh
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the professor's name? | John Hengesh |
| Reverse Innovation vs. Reverse Engineering | Reverse innovation is when a company takes features out of a product to drive down the cost to build. Reverse engineering is when a company takes apart a competitor's product to learn (a) how to build it and (b) what it costs to make. |
| What does R&D stand for? | Research & Development |
| Who are the highest paid in the company besides the officers? | R&D |
| What are the 3 different sections on the exam? | Multiple choice, True/False, Short Answer |
| Define Strategic Management. | Goal-directed actions to gain and sustain competitive advantage. Not a zero-sum game. Requires trade-offs for strategic positioning. |
| The 4 Stakeholders. | 1. Customers 2. Shareholders 3. Employees 4. Suppliers |
| The 4 Building Blocks of Competitive Advantage. | 1. Efficiency 2. Quality 3. Customer Responsiveness 4. Innovation |
| Porter's 5 Forces. | 1. Threat of Entrants 2. Supplier Power 3. Buyer Power 4. Threat of Substitution 3. Existing Competition Among Existing Competitors |
| What are the 2 steps of strategies? | 1. Emerging 2. ? |
| What are switching costs? | ? |
| What are the 3 Generic Business Strategies? | 1. Cost-Leadership 2. Differentiation 3. Integration |
| What are the upsides and downsides of Cost-Leadership? | ? |
| What are the upsides and downsides of Differentiation? | ? |
| 3 Levels of Strategy. | 1. Corporate Strategy 2. Business Strategy 3. Functional Strategy |
| What does Corporate Level Strategy focus on? | The big picture, where to compete. |
| What does Business Level Strategy focus on? | How to compete. |
| What does Functional Level Strategy focus on? | How to implement. |
| What is the major benefit of Reverse Engineering? | It allows you to spend less money on R&D. |
| What are the 3 steps in the Strategic Management Process? | 1. Strategic Planning 2. Scenario Planning 3. Strategy as Planned Emergence |
| When do acquisitions fail? | 75% of the time. The main reason for this failure is the difference in culture. |
| Why do an acquisition? | To take a mouth out of the trough. Also, can drive down manufacturing costs when trying to enter into a new market. |
| What is a key characteristic of a good leader? | ? |
| What do Strategic Managers do to be successful? | Consider quantitative and qualitative performance dimensions... |
| What is CAGR and what % does it need to be each year? | Compound Annual Growth Rate. Needs to be at 20% |
| What is NI and what % does it need to be? | Net Income. Needs to be 5% and is not expected to grow. |
| What is the Gross Margin equation? | Selling Price - Variable Costs / Selling Price = Gross Margin |
| What % is a healthy Gross Margin? | 30-40% |
| What is the G&A expense and what % should it be? | General & Administrative. Should be 5-7% of revenue. |
| What % should Expenses be of total revenue? | 13-29% of revenue |
| What is the S&M expense and what % should it be? | Sales & Marketing. Should be 3-7% of revenue. |
| What % should R&D expense be? | 5-15% of revenue. |
| What are the two major numbers that CEOs need to worry about? | CAGR and NI. |
| What are 3 departments under G&A? | Accounting & Finance, Legal, Human Resources |
| What does balance scorecard do? | Offers multiple internal & external metrics. Allows you to consider both financial and strategic perspectives. (Customer perspectives, future processes to create value, internal core competencies, shareholder perspective) |
| How can a company avoid failure? | Differentiate, drive down CTB, enter a new market, rebrand, implement marketing plan, become acquired by successful company |
| What are some barriers that competitors face when entering a new market? | PESTEL: Political, Economic, Sociocultural, Technological, Environmental, Legal. |
| When is a company likely to endure? | When it is able to maintain sustained competitive advantage through giving attention to the 4 building blocks. It must create economic value, have accounting profitability, and create shareholder value. |
| What is the Industry Life Cycle Model? | 1. Introduction 2. Growth 3. Maturity 4. Decline |
| Complementary Product vs. Complementary Asset. | A complementary product is one that is paired well with another, encouraging people to purchase both, such as a case for an iPhone. A complementary asset is one that allows you to compete better, such as a patent. |
| What is the role of the general manager of a business unit? | ? |
| What is EOL and describe it. | End of Life. The product is killed, completely finished. |
| What is EONS and describe it. | End of New Sale. A date is set where no more new products will be available for purchase. |
| What is competitive advantage? | Superior performance relative to competitors. |
| What Strategy is NOT (2) | (1) Raking in every penny the firm can get (2) Operational Effectiveness |
| What is ERP? | Enterprise Resource Planning. Software that allows a company keep track of all activities. |
| What is Six Sigma? | A program that insures quality. |
| What is AFI? | Analyze (Getting started), Formulate (business and corporate strategy), Implement (organizational design and corporate governance). AFI is a strategy framework. |
| What does a company's Vision address? | What to ultimately accomplish. |
| What does a company's Mission address? | What the firm is about. |
| What do a company's Values address? | How to accomplish goals. |
| What is forming strategic intent? | Staking out a desired leadership position in the long term that far exceeds a company's current situation. |
| What do Customer-Oriented Missions do? | Define the firm in terms of solutions for customers. |
| What do Product-Oriented Missions do? | Define the firm in terms of products or services. |
| What are values? | Ethical standards and norms that govern behavior. |
| What is the SCP? | The Structure-Conduct Performance. |
| What are the 4 elements of the SCP? | Perfect Competition, Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, Monopoly. |
| In the Porter's 5 forces model, which force is in the center? | Competition among existing competitors. |
| Industry Dynamics (3). | 1. Industry growth rates are highly variable. 2. Structures change. 3. Industry Convergence. |
| 2 Types of of Strategic Groups. | Mapping Groups and Mobility Barriers. |
| What are Core Competencies? | Unique strengths deep inside a firm that differentiate a firm and can drive competitive advantage. |
| Tangible vs. Intangible Resources | Tangible resources are visible and have physical attributes, while intangible ones do not. Competitive Advantage is more likely to occur from intangible resources, such as a patent. |
| What is Resource Heterogeneity? | Bundles of resources and capabilities differ across firms. |
| What is Resource Immobility? | Resources tend to be "sticky" and don't move easily. |
| What do Primary Activities do? | Add value directly in transforming inputs into outputs. |
| What to Support Activities do? | Indirectly add value by providing support to primary activities. |
| What are Dynamic Strategic Activity Systems? | A network of interconnected activities in the firm that evolve over time due to external environment changes. |
| 4 Steps to Protecting a Competitive Advantage. | 1. Better Expectations of Future Values 2. Path Dependence 3. Causal Ambiguity 4. Social Complexity |
| What is VRIO? | Valuable, Rare, Costly to Imitate, Organized to Capture Value. All in regards to resources, capabilities, and firms. |
| In the Economic Value equation, what is V? | Value, or the consumer's maximum willingness to pay. |
| In the Economic Value equation, what is C? | Cost, or the dollar amount to make the good or service. |
| In the Economic Value equation, what is P? | Price, or the dollar amount at which the good or service is offered. |
| V - C = ? | Economic Value Created. |
| V - P = ? | Consumer Surplus. |
| P - C = ? | The firm's profit. |
| What is the Triple Bottom Line? | Financial, Social, and Ecological Considerations. AKA People, Planet, and Profits. Integrative approach for sustainable strategy. |
| What 4 questions are answered by Business-Level Strategy? | Who? What? Why? How? |
| What are the 2 factors that Strategic Position is based upon? | 1. Value Creation 2. Cost |
| What are the 4 value drivers? | 1. Product features 2. Customer Service 3. Customization 4. Complements |
| What are the 4 cost drivers? | 1. Cost of inputs 2. Economies of Scale 3. Learning Curve Effect 4. Experience Curve Effect |
| What are the 4 Value/Cost drivers of Integration? | 1. Quality 2. Economies of Scale 3. Innovation 4. Structure, Culture, and Routines |
| What is innovation? | The commercialization of invention. |
| Incremental vs. Radical Innovation. | Steady improvement of a product or service vs. Novel methods or materials serving new markets. |
| Architectural vs. Disruptive Innovation | Reconfiguration of known components to create new markets vs. Novel technologies serving existing markets. |
| What is the Long Tail? | 80% of sales come from 20% of the products (Pareto Principle) |
| What happens in hyper competition? | No single strategy sustains competitive advantage. Radical innovation shifts to incremental. |
| What is an AOP? | An annual operating plan. Very important to us. Done in October and approved by the board in December. |
| What is M&A? | Merger & Acquisition |
| What is the Razor-Blade Business Model? | Sell a relatively cheap piece of equipment with expensive parts to maintain. |
| What is the Subscription Business Model? | Offer free or low price product, then charge monthly payments for maintenance of service. |
| What are the 3 major Future industries? | Health Care, Green Economy, Web 2.0 |
| What is the Average Corporate Tax %? | 35% |
| What is CTB? | Cost to Build. |
| What is COGS? | Cost of Goods Sold. |
| What is IPR? | Intellectual Property Rights. (patents, trademarks, copyrights) |
| Samsung Article Takeaways. | 1. Commoditization of the cell phone, drop in price 2. Product line expansion is a strategy, but there is a lot of work that comes with it. 3. Phones use subscription strategy. |
| What is the top line of the Income Statement? | Revenue |
| What is the second line of the Income Statement? | COGS/CTB |
| What is "below the line" on the Income Statement? | Gross Margin, Expenses |
| What is CSR? | Corporate Social Responsibility |
| What does the principle of Scale imply? | You don't have to be huge to be successful. You can be an entrepreneur on a small scale. |
| There is no ______ without ______. | Mission, Margin |
| What does a company release when going public? | IPO (Initial Public Offering) |
| What are Expectations? | Guidance for projected earnings in the future. Based on forecasts. |
| What % variance should you shoot for in forecasting? | Less that 10% |
| What is the one certainty about a forecast? | It's always wrong. |
| What are Back Logs? | Orders from your customers. |
| What is Coopetition? | When companies work together on a product for mutual benefit. |
| What is the FTC? | Federal Trade Commission |
| What is the FCC? | Federal Communication Commission |
| What is a RIF? | Reduction in Force |
| What is a another word for leverage? | Debt. |
| What is a normal premium % for an acquisition? | 35% |
| Ford Article Takeaways | Production introduction with Ford releasing first aluminum pick up truck, innovation throughout company, make the hard decisions on RIFs. |
| Facebook-What's App Article Takeways. | Monetization: how revenue is generated, M&A, taking another mouth out of the trough, more effectively reaching a different part of the globe. |
| What is a Leap Frog? | When a company enters with a better product than your company at a comparable price. |
| What is the average life of a business? | 5 years. |
| What is PE? | Price Earnings: the price of your stock vs. earnings per share. You want this to be a 3:1 ratio. |
| What is a CompStore? | A comparable store. |
| Caterpillar Article Takeaways | GAAP vs. Pro Forma: GAAP is run by normal accounting principals, while Pro Forma allows you to exclude a one time event. Buybacks increase earnings per share. |
| What should the sales revenue per employee be in a normal company? How about a tech company? | $100k, $200k |
| What does "focus" mean in regards to cost-leadership and differentiation? | Just means picking out a market niche. |
| What is T&E? | Traveling and Expenses. |
| What is ROR? | Return on Revenue. |
| What is ROI? | Return on Investment? |
| What is bad about being Leap Frogged? | Revenue line goes down and your expenses go up. |
| Pizza Article Takeaways | Pizza is a fragmented market, scale is a big issue, bigger pizza companies can afford to have the online order systems, |
| Coke Article Takeaways | Home Coke maker, 4 building blocks, timing is everything. |
| GM Article Takeaways | End of New Sale followed by End of life, North America sales are good, international struggling, closing in Australia. |
| How long do CEOs have to prove themselves? | 4 quarters or 1 year. |
| What does the Law of Large Numbers suggest? | When you get to billions of dollars in revenue, you have to adjust your CAGR goal to a lower number, possibly single digits. |
| What does restructuring mean in a company? | Layoffs, RIF |
| 3 Components of a severance situation. | 1. The company should pay you 2 weeks for your first year, then 1 week for every year after that. 2. You should be given health insurance for 6 months to a year. 3. You should be offered education to retrain. |
| What is Passive Resistance/Social Loafing? | When an employee acts hung-ho about making improvements and then doesn't get the job done. |
| What is a PIP? | Performance Improvement Plan |
| Microsoft Article Takeaways. | New CEO, has to make an EOL decision or innovate, coopetition at a huge level, google agreed to sell a part of Motorola. |
| 3 Phases of a New Product. | Alpha Phase: only inside the firm, Beta Phase: go out to your first customers, explain that there will be problems with the product at this point. 3. Product Release: when the product can be now sold by everyone in the company. |
| What is ASP? | Adaptive Strategic Planning |
| What is impaired good will? | Paying too much for an acquisition. |
| Internal Analysis. Assess what 3 things? | Assess market, company, and competition. |
| What is usually cut during tough times? | Training. BAD IDEA. |
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