Leadership and Strategic Management Overview
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What is a primary factor that unrelated diversification aims to reduce?

  • Operating costs
  • Market competition
  • Risk variability (correct)
  • Employee turnover

Which of the following factors are considered transaction costs in market transactions?

  • Distribution fees
  • Search costs (correct)
  • Marketing expenses
  • Manufacturing costs

What approach does the Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) growth/share matrix assist with?

  • Determining market pricing strategies
  • Assessing supply chain efficiency
  • Identifying strategic alternatives for business units (correct)
  • Evaluating employee performance

What potential downside of diversification is highlighted in the content?

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Which statement is true about the goal of diversification according to the content?

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What does the size of each circle in the BCG matrix represent?

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Why might stockholders prefer not to diversify their portfolios?

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Which aspect of unrelated diversification could be detrimental to a firm’s long-term viability?

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Which factor is NOT considered a barrier to entry in the competitive environment?

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How can buyers exert their bargaining power?

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Which of the following is an example of cost disadvantages that are independent of scale?

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What role do suppliers play in the competitive environment?

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Which is an example of product differentiation?

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What is a key question to ask regarding new market entries and their effect on existing industries?

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Which characteristic is most likely associated with adaptive new entry strategies?

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What would be a major concern regarding imitative new entries?

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Which strategy allows a new venture to leverage both low-cost and differentiation?

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Which aspect is crucial for ensuring the sustainability of a new market entry?

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What is the primary function of competitive dynamics in relation to new entries?

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What is a potential risk when implementing adaptive new entry strategies?

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What aspect is NOT typically associated with imitative new entries?

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What is the primary objective of formulating a business-level strategy?

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Which of the following is NOT a focus area of strategy analysis?

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What does the corporate-level strategy primarily address?

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What is one of the primary benefits of strategic control?

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Which approach is included in formulating business-level strategy?

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What key function does corporate-level strategy provide in a business?

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What question is typically considered in corporate-level strategy formulation?

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What is the strategy analysis considered the starting point for?

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What is the primary goal of a combination strategy?

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What variation of focus strategy seeks to create a cost advantage in a specific market segment?

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How does an overall focus strategy strengthen a firm's competitive position against buyer power?

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What is a significant risk of pursuing a focused strategy?

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What defines the introduction stage of the industry life cycle?

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What is a key characteristic of the decline stage in the industry life cycle?

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Which of the following is a potential pitfall of combination strategies?

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What does the exploitation of the profit pool concept contribute to a firm’s strategy?

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What role does the Internet play in differentiation strategies?

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Which strategy is most suitable during the growth stage of the industry life cycle?

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What is a primary advantage of economies of scope in a corporate-level strategy?

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What is one of the challenges associated with internet-enabled focus strategies?

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What does consolidation generally involve during the decline stage of the industry life cycle?

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What is the primary focus of inbound logistics?

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Which activity is primarily involved in transforming inputs into the final product form?

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What role does technology development play in the value chain?

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Which of the following is primarily concerned with recruiting, hiring, and training personnel?

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What is a major benefit of streamlining the value chain?

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Which of the following is NOT a primary activity in the value chain?

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Which of these resources are difficult to imitate due to their unique characteristics?

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Which of the following contributes to the resource-based view of the firm?

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What type of resources are characterized by their ease of identification and quantification?

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What do firm capabilities typically enable them to do?

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Which perspective is NOT part of the Balanced Scorecard framework?

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Which factor helps explain employee bargaining power?

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What is the primary purpose of evaluating firm performance through financial ratio analysis?

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What are the attributes of strategic resources intended to support?

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Flashcards

Competitive Environment

The situation in which companies compete with each other.

Competitors

Businesses within the same industry that compete for customers.

Economies of Scale

The ability of a company to produce goods or services at a lower cost per unit due to its large size.

Product Differentiation

The ability of a company to differentiate its products or services from those of its competitors.

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Bargaining Power of Buyers

The ability of buyers to negotiate favorable terms with suppliers.

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Strategy Analysis

The process of analyzing an organization's goals and the external and internal factors that affect its ability to achieve those goals.

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Formulating Business-Level Strategy

The process of developing a plan to gain a competitive advantage in a specific industry or market segment.

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Cost Leadership

A strategy that aims to achieve lower costs than competitors while selling at comparable prices.

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Differentiation

A strategy that focuses on creating products or services that are perceived as unique and valuable to customers, justifying a premium price.

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Focus

A strategy that targets a specific niche market with specialized products, services, or needs.

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Formulating Corporate-Level Strategy

The process of developing a plan for managing a company's diverse portfolio of businesses.

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Strategic Control

The process of monitoring and evaluating the implementation of a strategy to ensure it's on track and making adjustments as needed.

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Corporate Governance

The process of ensuring that a company's activities are aligned with its strategic goals and that there are appropriate mechanisms in place to prevent unethical or illegal behaviors.

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Transaction Costs

Costs associated with buying or selling goods or services in a market. Include search costs, negotiation costs, and monitoring costs.

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Unrelated Diversification

A strategy where a company acquires or creates businesses that are unrelated to its existing core operations.

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Portfolio Management

Involves analyzing and managing a company's portfolio of businesses to optimize performance and resource allocation.

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Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix

A tool used in portfolio management to analyze a company's businesses based on their market share and market growth rate.

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Following Strict Rules for Resource Allocation

A strict and simplistic approach to resource allocation that can hinder a company's long-term success.

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Risk Reduction

A potential benefit of diversification that aims to reduce fluctuations in revenue and profits over time.

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Stockholder Diversification

A common argument against unrelated diversification, as shareholders can achieve diversification at a lower cost by investing in a diversified portfolio of stocks.

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Economic Cycles and Diversification

Diversification may not always be successful as economic cycles are difficult to predict.

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Adaptive New Entry

Involves introducing a product or service that is significantly different and offers new value to customers. This strategy focuses on creating unique features, innovation, and adaptation to market trends.

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Imitative New Entry

Entails replicating successful products or services offered by existing competitors, often in a different market segment.

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Differentiation Strategy

A strategy that aims to stand out from competitors by offering unique products or services that cater to specific customer needs.

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Low-Cost Strategy

A strategy focused on offering products or services at the lowest possible cost to gain a competitive advantage. This strategy emphasizes efficiency and minimizing overhead expenses.

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Combination Strategies

A strategy involving combining the best aspects of different competitive strategies (low-cost, differentiation, and focus) to create a unique blend that caters to specific market segments.

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Competitive Dynamics

The forces that influence how businesses compete with each other in a given market. These forces include new entries, competitor responses, and the dynamics of changing market conditions.

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Disruptive New Entry

Involves introducing products or services that disrupt the existing way of doing things in an industry. This could include using new technologies, radically different resource allocation, or challenging established norms.

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Focus Strategy

A strategy aimed at specializing in a narrow market niche, serving a specific group of customers with tailored products or services.

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Cost Focus

A focus strategy that emphasizes achieving cost leadership within a specific market segment. It aims to offer products or services at lower prices than competitors while still meeting segment-specific requirements.

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Differentiation Focus

A focus strategy that emphasizes differentiating products or services within a specific market segment. It aims to create unique value propositions that appeal to the segment's specific preferences and needs.

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Automated and flexible manufacturing

Utilizing manufacturing systems that are automated and adaptable to create various product variations, enabling efficient mass customization.

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Profit pool concept

Analyzing the potential profitability within an industry, identifying attractive areas for competitive advantage.

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Value Chain Integration

Leveraging technology to seamlessly integrate activities across the entire value chain, from sourcing to after-sales services.

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Overall Focus Strategy

A specialized strategy that focuses on a narrow market segment and aims to achieve cost leadership or differentiation within that segment.

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Internet-Enabled Focus Strategies

The Internet and digital technologies have created new ways for companies to compete in niche markets, offering a unique value proposition.

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Internet-Enabled Low-Cost Leader Strategies

The Internet and digital technologies have provided tools to efficiently manage costs across the entire business, potentially leading to a reduction in sustainable competitive advantage.

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Internet-Enabled Differentiation Strategies

The Internet and digital technologies enable companies to offer personalized and tailored products and services, creating unique differentiation strategies.

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Turnaround Strategy

A strategy focused on reversing declining performance and rejuvenating growth towards profitability.

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Asset and Cost Surgery

A turnaround strategy that involves streamlining operations by reducing costs, eliminating non-essential assets, and focusing on core strengths.

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Selected Market & Product Pruning

A turnaround strategy that identifies and focuses on the most profitable market segments and product lines, while eliminating or downsizing less profitable ones.

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Piecemeal Productivity Improvements

A turnaround strategy that involves gradually improving performance and efficiency through incremental changes.

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Marginal or Tenuous Value

The value received must exceed the cost of production. This helps guide a company's future strategies.

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Streamlining the Value Chain

The process of optimizing how a company brings raw materials, produces, and delivers a product or service to customers.

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Value Chain Analysis

A framework for analyzing how activities within a company create value. It includes primary activities like operations and marketing, and support activities like procurement and technology development.

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Primary Activities

Activities directly involved in creating a product or service, selling it, and providing after-sales service.

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Support Activities

Activities that support the primary activities by providing resources and infrastructure.

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Procurement

The purchase of inputs for a company's value chain, focusing on optimizing quality, speed, and minimizing costs.

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Technology Development

Activities related to developing new technologies, processes, and products, often involving collaboration with other departments and personnel.

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Human Resource Management

Activities that involve recruiting, hiring, training, and managing employees, including developing incentive programs to motivate them.

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General Administration

Administrative activities that support overall planning, goal setting, and strategic direction for the entire company.

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Resource-Based View of the Firm (RBV)

The idea that firms gain a competitive advantage by leveraging valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable resources and capabilities.

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Tangible Resources

Resources that are easily identifiable, such as physical assets, financial assets, and technological resources.

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Intangible Resources

Resources that are difficult for competitors to identify, copy, or imitate, such as human resources, innovation, and reputation.

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Organizational Capabilities

Skills and competencies used by a company to transform inputs into outputs, combining both tangible and intangible resources.

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Strategic Resources

Resources that are valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable, enabling a company to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.

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The Balanced Scorecard

The framework that measures a company's performance based on four key perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth.

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Study Notes

Importance of Leadership

  • Maintaining competitive success over time is difficult for any company size
  • Two perspectives of leadership: Romantic view (leader is key to success) and external control perspective (external forces determine success)

Leadership Perspectives

  • The Romantic view focuses on the key role of the leader, e.g., Steve Jobs
  • In contrast, the external perspective highlights external factors, e.g., economic downturns, as crucial for organizational success

Strategic Management

  • Strategic management involves analysis, strategic goals (vision, mission, etc.), and understanding internal and external environments
  • Decisions include selecting industries to compete in and how to compete in those industries
  • Actions encompass resource allocation and organizational design to implement strategies

Two Fundamental Questions

  • How will you compete to achieve competitive advantages in the marketplace?
  • How can you make sure competitive advantages are unique, valuable, and difficult to copy or substitute?

Strategic Management Attributes

  • Directs the organization toward overall goals and objectives
  • Includes multiple stakeholders in decision-making
  • Needs short- and long-term perspectives
  • Recognizes trade-offs between efficiency and effectiveness
  • Managers need to be ambidextrous (balance short-term and long-term)

Intended vs. Realized Strategies

  • Business environments are unpredictable
  • Intended strategies are based on analysis alone
  • Realized strategies are influenced by deliberate analysis and unforeseen environmental developments, resource constraints, and managerial preferences

Strategic Management Processes

  • Begins with analyzing the organization's goals and objectives, external environment, and industry environment
  • Strategic formulation encompasses decisions at various levels (e.g., business-level and corporate-level)
  • Strategy analysis is a critical starting point for strategic development and organization goals

Strategic Analysis

  • Starting point in the strategic management process
  • Involves careful analysis of the organization's goals and its external and internal environment

Environmental Analysis of the Firm

  • Managers must monitor and scan the environment
  • The general environment and the industry environment are significant components of the external analysis

Strategy Formulation

  • Strategy analysis is the basis
  • Decisions made at various levels to create and sustain competitive advantage
  • Includes decisions about resource investments, operational synergies, and recognition of opportunities

Business Level Strategy

  • Successful firms derive sustainable competitive advantages from
  • Cost Leadership
  • Differentiation
  • Focusing on a specific market segment

Corporate Level Strategy

  • Used to formulate strategies for multiple businesses
  • Used to form and sustain competitive advantages

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Explore the critical concepts of leadership and strategic management in this quiz. Understand the romantic and external perspectives of leadership and examine how strategic management enables organizations to thrive in competitive markets. Test your knowledge on achieving and maintaining competitive advantages.

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