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P3 Models Summary

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  • May 12, 2017 at 5:56 am #385912
    Mayuri
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    Heyya reader!

    Can you please help me with a summary of all the models that we are required to know for the P3 exam and the topics that they relate to?

    Thanks a ton! 🙂

    May 4, 2018 at 8:15 am #450025
    faniku
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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.

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