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    P3 Models
    Johnson, Scholes and Whittington (JS&W) – defining elements of strategic management
    • Strategic position
    • Strategic choices
    • Strategy into action (implementation)

    Johnson, Scholes and Whittington three strategy lenses
    • Strategy as design
    • Strategy as experience
    • Strategy as ideas

    PESTEL
    • Political
    • Economic
    • Socio-cultural
    • Technological
    • Environmental
    • Legal

    Porter’s Diamond
    • Firm strategy, structure, rivalry
    • Demand conditions
    • Related and supporting industries
    • Factor conditions

    Porter’s five forces framework
    • Barriers to entry
    • Substitute products
    • The bargaining power of customers
    • The bargaining power of suppliers
    • Competitive rivalry

    Lifecycle model
    • Inception
    • Growth
    • Shakeout
    • Maturity
    • Decline

    Marketing Mix
    • Product
    • Price
    • Place
    • Promotion
    • People
    • Processes
    • Physical evidence

    Porter’s Value chain
    Primary Activities
    • Inbound logistics
    • Operations
    • Outbound logistics
    • Marketing and sales
    • Service

    Support Activities
    • Firm infrastructure
    • Human resource management
    • Technology development
    • Procurement

    SWOT analysis
    • Strengths
    • Weaknesses
    • Opportunities
    • Threats

    TOWS Matrix
    • SO strategies employ strengths to seize opportunities
    • ST strategies employ strengths to counter or avoid threats
    • WO strategies address weaknesses so as to be able to exploit opportunities
    • WT strategies are defensive, aiming to avoid threats and the impact of weaknesses

    Cultural Web (paradigm)
    • Stories
    • Symbols
    • Power structures
    • Organisation structures
    • Control systems
    • Rituals and routines

    Integrated Reporting
    • Financial capital
    • Manufactured capital
    • Intellectual capital
    • Human capital
    • Social and relationship capital
    • Natural capital

    JS&W’s three strategic rationales for corporate parents
    • Envisioning corporate intent
    • Intervention to improve performance
    • Provision of services, resources and expertise

    Boston Consulting Grout Matrix
    • Stars
    • Question marks
    • Cash cows
    • Dogs

    Public sector portfolio matrix
    • Public sector star
    • Political hot box
    • Golden fleece
    • Back drawer issue

    Ashridge portfolio matrix
    • Heartland businesses
    • Ballast businesses
    • Value trap businesses
    • Alien businesses

    The strategy clock
    • Price-based strategies (no frills / low price)
    • Differentiation strategies (hybrid / focused differentiation)
    • Failure strategies

    Ansoff’s Matrix (product market mix)
    • Market penetration
    • Product development
    • Market development
    • Diversification

    Balogun and Hope Hailey’s matrix
    • Incremental/Realignment – Adaptation
    • Incremental/Transformation – Evolution
    • Big bang/Realignment – Reconstruction
    • Big bang/Transformation – Revolution

    Contextual Features Model
    • Time available
    • Preservation
    • Diversity
    • Capability
    • Capacity
    • Readiness
    • Power
    • Scope

    6 I’s of marketing
    • Independence of location
    • Industry structure
    • Interactivity
    • Individualisation
    • Integration
    • Intelligence

    7 p’s of E-marketing
    • Product – or customer value
    • Price – or customer cost
    • Promotion – or customer communication
    • Processes
    • Physical evidence
    • People
    • Place – or customer convenience

    Job Design
    • Scientific management
    • Human relations / job enrichment
    • Japanese model
    • Re-design

    Objectives (SMART)
    • Specific
    • Measurable
    • Achievable
    • Relevant
    • Time-limited

    Balanced Scorecard
    • Financial perspective
    • Customer perspective
    • Internal business perspective
    • Innovation and learning perspective

    Types of diversification
    • Backward vertical integration
    • Conglomerates
    • Horizontal
    • Forward vertical integration

    Four Views Model (POPIT)
    • People
    • Organisation
    • Processes
    • Information Technology

    Harmon’s Grid
    • Low complexity/low strategic importance – automate/outsource
    • High complexity/low strategic importance – outsource
    • Low complexity/high strategic importance – automate
    • High complexity/high strategic importance – BPR and improvement

    Projects and Strategic Plans
    • Start date
    • Duration
    • Finish date
    • A relationship to other projects: after some, before others etc
    • A cost
    • A person responsible
    • A closely defined set of outcomes

    Stages of a Project
    • Initiation/initial screening
    • Risk assessment
    • Business case
    • Project plan
    • Executing
    • Monitoring and controlling/project milestones
    • Closing: delivery/review

    Project Initiation Document
    • Defines the project, its scope and its deliverables
    • Justifies the project: cost/benefit analysis; risk analysis
    • Secures funding for the project, if necessary
    • Defines the roles and responsibilities of project participants: sponsor, manager team
    • Gives people the information they need to be productive and effective right from the start: assignments, schedule, human resources, project control,and quality control

    The Project Manager
    • Leadership abilities, including the ability to motivate
    • Technical ability in running projects and in the subject matter
    • Negotiation ability to negotiate with project sponsors (those who are paying), project team members and suppliers
    • Reporting on progress and difficulties
    • The ability to stay calm in a crisis
    • Excellent communication
    • Ability to delegate to team members

    The Project Team
    • Are fairly small
    • Are united in what they want out of the project
    • Have the right mix of complementary skills
    • Have the right mix of personalities

    Scenarios
    1 Decide on the drivers for change
    2 Bring drivers together into a viable framework
    3 Produce seven to nice mini-scenarios
    4 Group mini-scenarios into two or three larger scenarios
    5 Write the scenarios
    6 Identify issues arising

    Mintzberg’s Stereotypical Configurations
    1 Simple (entrepreneurial) structure
    2 Machine bureaucracy
    3 Professional bureaucracy
    4 Divisional form
    5 Adhocracy
    6 Missionary organisation

    Project Benefits
    • Observable
    • Measurable
    • Quantifiable
    • Financial

    Methods of Growth
    • Organic growth
    • Acquisitions and mergers
    • Joint ventures
    • Franchising
    • Alliances

    Procurement
    Involves locating items of the right
    • Price
    • Time
    • Quality
    • Quantity
    • Source

    Tannenbaum and Schmidt Managerial Style
    Authoritarian/task orientation ———————————Democratic/relationship orientation

    Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid (concern for people/concern for production)
    1.1 impoverished
    1.9 country club
    9.1 task orientated
    9.9 team
    5.5 middle of the road

    Theory X and Theory Y
    X Dislike work, need to be coerced, controlled, directed and/or threatened. Close supervision, carrot and stick
    Y Physical and mental effort is as natural as play or rest. Motivated to seek challenge and responsibility. Manager consultative, facilitating, positive feedback, challenge and responsibility as motivators.

    January 15, 2018 at 6:47 am #429711
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    i am done leading. I have led all my classes from primary through secondary to Uni. As long as i get a 50%, i move on.

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