3. Learning Outcomes
1 You will be able to define strategy,
strategic dimensions, scope, nature and
it's strategic role for corporate
sustainability
4. What is strategy?
Johnson and Scholes (Exploring Corporate Strategy) define strategy as
follows:
• “Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-
term: which achieves advantage for the organization through its
configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet
the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations".
5. Johnson and Scholes (Exploring Corporate Strategy) define strategy as
follows:
• “Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-
term: which achieves advantage for the organization through its
configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to
meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations".
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8. There are several key aspects that are fundamental to all forms
of strategy.
1) An understanding of where you are now
2) A clear sense of where you want to end up
3) An assessment of what stands in between
4) A decision about how to approach the challenge
5) A specific course of action to undertake.
9. So what is Strategy?
• Simply put together it is:
• Large-scale, future-oriented plan for interacting with the competitive
environment to achieve objectives
• Company’s “game plan”
• Framework for managerial decisions