strategic
(adjective)
Of or pertaining to strategy.
Examples of strategic in the following topics:
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Overview of Types of Strategic Plans
- The broader overview of strategic plans, as well as the five subgroups within strategic planning, provide businesses with direction.
- Strategic management leverages strategic planning in order to design and execute a variety of plans specifically created to approach various facets of the business and competitive environment.
- It is worth analyzing the broader overview of strategic plans, as well as the five subgroups within strategic planning that provide businesses with an outline of their strategic direction.
- Strategic plans are what communicate the corporate strategy, direction, and resource allocation.
- Long-range plans are those most closely related to the overall strategic-planning process.
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Strategic Management
- Strategic management entails five steps: analysis, formation, goal setting, structure, and feedback.
- Strategic management analyzes the major initiatives, involving resources and performance in external environments, that a company's top management takes on behalf of owners.
- As strategic management is a large, complex, and ever-evolving endeavor, it is useful to divide it into a series of concrete steps to illustrate the process of strategic management.
- Leaders allocate resources to specific projects and enact any necessary strategic partnerships.
- Identify the five general steps that allow businesses to develop a strategic process
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Differences Between Strategic Planning at Small Versus Large Firms
- Strategic management can depend on the size of an organization and the proclivity of change in its business environment.
- Ideally, McDonald's can construct careful strategic models and systems which control the critical components of the operations without hindering the localization.
- Enabling creativity and innovation is strategically difficult to do as it requires a hands-off approach that empowers autonomy over structure.
- Innovate ideas are primarily trial and error, and so instilling creativity into a strategic process is also a high-risk approach.
- Apply the size of a firm to the basic strategic management theories
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The Importance of Strategy
- Strategic management is critical to organizational development as it aligns the mission and vision with operations.
- Strategic management is critical to the development and expansion of all organizations.
- Strategic planning is the formal consideration of an organization's future course, and all strategic planning deals with at least one of three key questions:
- In business-related strategic planning, the third question refers more to beating or avoiding competition.
- Evaluate the implications of the three key questions defining strategic planning
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Planning a Project
- The stages of a project within the strategic-planning discipline provide a step-by-step approach to generating and implementing an effective strategy, for either a corporation or a strategic business unit (SBU).
- Implementing a framework for generating a project-planning cycle, complete with strategic objectives, implementation methods, and assessment, is a primary responsibility of strategic managers.
- Monitoring the operation for ways to increase value can redirect the strategic-planning cycle back to the planning-and-design stage.
- As shown in the figure, there are five basic strategic management steps in the planning cycle.
- Outline the five basic stages in the planning cycle as derived within the field of strategic management
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Cooperative Strategy
- Strategic Alliances and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer.
- Upper management is tasked with the developing complex interactive strategies when entering a strategic alliance.
- The following steps highlight key aspects of the strategic alliance process:
- Benefits of strategic alliances vary according to each business's strengths and objectives and may include:
- Identify the steps involved in forming a strategic alliance to employ cooperative strategies
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Competitive Dynamics
- The dynamic model of the strategy process is a way of understanding how strategic actions occur.
- It recognizes that strategic planning is dynamic; that is, strategy-making involves a complex pattern of actions and reactions.
- This analysis provides both an offensive and defensive strategic context in order to identify opportunities and threats.
- First, profiling can reveal strategic weaknesses in rivals that the firm may exploit.
- Third, this proactive knowledge can give the firm strategic agility.
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Types of Innovation
- There are three main modes of innovation: entrepreneurial value-based, technology-based, and strategic-reflexive.
- The strategic-reflexive mode of innovation is the most effective mode for change and innovation.
- Strategic innovation pertains to processes: how things are done as opposed to what the end product is.
- Strategic changes can be disruptive but are more often incremental.
- Walmart's "Hub and Spoke" distribution model is a classic example of strategic innovation.
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The Overall Strategy
- Generally, strategic planning deals with three key questions:
- "The Value of Formal Planning for Strategic Decisions: A Reply".
- Strategic Management Journal 7: 183–185. ]
- The key components of strategic planning include an understanding of the firm's vision, mission, values, and strategies.
- This demonstrates an example of how one case went from vision to various strategic objectives
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Implementing Strategy
- Strategic planning involves managing the implementation process, which translates plans into action.
- The following stages constitute the strategic implementation process:
- One of the core goals when drafting a strategic plan is to develop it in a way that is easily translated into action plans.
- Poor terminology or word choice and the wrong level of writing are both examples of ways to fail to translate a strategic plan so that it makes sense and is executable.
- The strategic management process never ends.