Strategic Thinking

1. Leadership and
Community
Service
Certificate :
Strategic
Thinking
Louise Kelly, PhD
Professor of Management and
Leadership
University of La Verne

2. How Practicing Strategic Leadership and Decision Making Can Uplift Your Community

3. The Strategic Management Process
Mission
& Vision
Goals &
Objectives
External
Analysis
Internal
Analysis
Strategic
Choice
Strategy
Implementation
Evaluation
and Control

4. Strategy
• Implementation comprises of
two processes
 Strategy planning
(development) process
 Strategy execution and
control

5. Decision Making and Intuition

6. Practicing
Strategic
Leadership

7. Strategic Leadership
• Strategic leadership & top-level managers
importance
• Top management teams effects on firm
performance
• Value of strategic leadership in determining
firm’s strategic direction
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8. Balanced
Scorecard

9. Strategic Controls and Financial Controls in a Balanced
Scorecard Framework
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10. Strategy Map

11. Balanced Scorecard

12. Strategy Performance Management
Tools
Balanced scorecard
Strategic planning and management system that can
be used to align strategy and organization
Measures firm’s performance from four perspectives

13. Key Strategic Leadership Actions
• Establishing Balanced Organizational Controls
• Strategic leaders are responsible for the development and effective use of
strategic and financial controls
• Controls provide the parameters for implementing strategies as well as the
corrective actions to be taken when implementation related adjustments are
required
• The challenge is to achieve an appropriate balance of financial and strategic
controls
• The Balanced Scorecard
• Framework that allows strategic leaders to verify that they have established both
financial and strategic controls to assess firm performance
• Underlying premise is that firms jeopardize their future performance possibilities
when financial controls are emphasized at the expense of strategic controls
• An appropriate balance of strategic and financial controls allows firms to achieve
higher level of performance.
• Uses multiple perspectives
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