The document provides an overview of strategic planning including the five tasks of strategic planning: forming a vision, setting objectives, crafting a strategy, implementing the strategy, and evaluating performance. It discusses factors that shape strategy choices, three tests for the best strategy (performance, competitive advantage, and fit), and analyzing industry environment to design competitive strategy using Porter's five forces model. It also outlines considerations for strategy implementation and execution.

1. Strategic Planning for Managers

2. Contents Five Tasks of Strategic Planning Factors Shaping the Choice of Strategy Three Tests of Best Strategy Analyzing Industry Environment and Crafting Competitive Strategy Strategy Implementation and Execution If you find this presentation useful, please consider telling others about our site (www.studyMarketing.org)

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4. Five Tasks of Strategic Planning

5. Five Tasks of Strategic Planning Forming a strategic vision Setting objectives Crafting a strategy to achieve the desired outcomes Implementing and executing the chosen strategy Evaluating performance, monitoring new developments, and initiating corrective adjustments

6. Forming a Strategic Vision Forming a strategic vision Very early in the strategy-making process, company managers need to pose a set of questions: "What is our vision for the company — where should the company be headed, what should its future technology-product-customer focus be, what kind of enterprise do we want to become, what industry standing do we want to achieve in five years?"

7. Setting Objectives Setting objectives The purpose of setting objectives is to convert managerial statements of strategic vision and business mission into specific performance targets — results and outcomes the organization wants to achieve. Setting objectives and then measuring whether they are achieved or not help managers track an organization's progress.

8. Improve Cost Efficiency Enhance Long-term Shareholder Value Increase Revenue Growth Enhance Brand Image Build High Performance Products Achieve Operational Excellence Develop Strategic Competencies Drive Demand through Customer Relation Management Manage Dramatic Growth through Innovation Implement Good Environmental Policy Build Learning Culture Expand Capabilities with Technology Strategic Objectives in Four Perspectives Financial Customer Internal Process Learning & Growth Expand Market Share

9. Crafting Strategy Crafting a strategy to achieve the desired outcomes A company's strategy represents management's answers to such fundamental business questions as : whether to concentrate on a single business or build a diversified group of businesses whether to cater to a broad range of customers or focus on a particular market niche whether to develop a wide or narrow product line how to respond to changing buyer preferences how big a geographic market to try to cover how to react to newly emerging market and competitive conditions how to grow the enterprise over the long term.

10. What Does a Company's Strategy Consist Of? Crafting a strategy to achieve the desired outcomes Company strategies concern how: how to grow the business how to satisfy customers how to outcompete rivals how to respond to changing market conditions how to manage each functional piece of the business and develop needed organizational capabilities how to achieve strategic and financial objectives

11. Strategy Implementation and Execution Strategy implementation concerns the managerial exercise of putting a freshly chosen strategy into place Strategy execution deals with the managerial exercise of supervising the ongoing pursuit of strategy, making it work, and showing measurable progress in achieving the targeted results. Implementing and executing the chosen strategy

12. Strategy Evaluation and Monitoring It is management's duty to stay on top of the company's situation, deciding whether things are going well internally, and monitoring outside developments closely. Marginal performance or too little progress, as well as important new external circumstances, will require corrective actions and adjustments. Evaluating performance, monitoring new developments, and initiating corrective adjustments

13. Strategy Hierarchy Corporate Strategy Business Strategies Functional Strategies (R&D, Marketing, Manufacturing, HR, Finance, etc. Operating Strategies (regions, plants, departments within functional areas) Strategy hierarchy for a diversified company

14. Strategy Hierarchy Business Strategies Functional Strategies (R&D, Marketing, Manufacturing, HR, Finance, etc. Operating Strategies (regions, plants, departments within functional areas) Strategy hierarchy for a single-business company

15. Strategy Hierarchy Corporate Strategic Vision Functional Areas Visions Operating Unit Visions Business-Level Strategic Vision Corporate Strategic Objectives Functional Areas Objectives Operating Unit Objectives Business-Level Strategic Objectives Corporate Strategic Strategy Functional Areas Strategies Operating Unit Strategies Business-Level Strategy

16. Factors Shaping the Choice of Strategy

17. Factors Shaping the Choice of Strategy Economic, societal, political, and government regulations Competitive conditions and industry attractiveness Company opportunity and threat Company strengths and weaknesses, competencies and capabilities Personal ambitions and business philosophies of key executives Shared values and company culture External Factors Internal Factors The mix of considerations that determines a company’s strategic situation

18. Strategic Analysis and Strategic Choices Analyzing strategically about industry and competitive conditions Analyzing strategically about a company’s own situation What strategic options does the company realistically have? What is the best strategy?

19. Three Tests of Best Strategy The Performance Test The Competitive Advantage Test The Goodness of Fit Test The Best Strategy

20. A good strategy has to be well matched to industry and competitive conditions, market opportunities and threats, and other aspects of the enterprise's external environment. At the same time, it has to be tailored to the company's resource strengths and weaknesses, competencies, and competitive capabilities. Three Tests of Best Strategy The Goodness of Fit Test

21. A good strategy leads to sustainable competitive advantage. The bigger the competitive edge that a strategy helps build, the more powerful and effective it is. Three Tests of Best Strategy The Competitive Advantage Test

22. A good strategy boosts company performance. Two kinds of performance improvements are the most telling of a strategy's caliber: gains in profitability and gains in the company's competitive strength and long-term mar­ket position. Three Tests of Best Strategy The Performance Test

23. Analyzing Industry Environment and Designing Competitive Strategy

24. Porter’s Five Forces Rivalry Buyer Power Supplier Power Threats of Substitutes Barriers to Entry

25. The Intensity of Rivalry A larger number of firms Slow market growth High fixed cost High storages costs or highly perishable products Low switching cost Low level of product differentiation Strategic stakes are high High exit barriers A diversity of rivals Industry shakeout The intensity of rivalry is influenced by the following industry characteristics:

26. Barriers to Entry Entry barriers are influenced by the following factors : Absolute cost advantages Proprietary learning curve Access to inputs Government policy Economies of scale Capital requirements Brand identity Switching costs Access to distribution Expected retaliation Proprietary products

27. Threats of Substitutes Threats of substitutes are influenced by the following factors : Switching costs Buyer inclination to substitute Price-performance trade-off of substitutes

28. Buyer Power Buyer power is influenced by the following factors : Bargaining leverage Buyer volume Buyer information Brand identity Price sensitivity Threat of backward integration Product differentiation Buyer concentration vs. industry Substitutes available Buyers' incentives

29. Supplier Power Supplier power is influenced by the following factors : Supplier concentration Importance of volume to supplier Differentiation of inputs Impact of inputs on cost or differentiation Switching costs of firms in the industry Presence of substitute inputs Threat of forward integration Cost relative to total purchases in industry

30. Sample Form for an Industry and Competitive Analysis Summary Industry Prospects and Overall Attractiveness Factors making the industry attractive Factors making the industry unattractive Special industry issues/problems Profit outlook (favorable/unfavorable) Industry Key Success Factors Competitor Analysis Strategic approaches/predicated moves of key competitors Whom to watch, and why Competitive Position of Major Companies/ Strategic Groups. Those that are favorably positioned, and why Those that are unfavorably positioned, and why Competitive Analysis Rivalry among competing sellers Threat of potential entry Competition from substitutes Power of suppliers Power of consumers Dominant Economic Characteristics of the Industry Environment (market size and growth rate, geographic scope, number and sizes of buyers and sellers, pace of technological change and innovation, scale economies, experience curve effects, capital requirements, and so on)

31. Five Generic Competitive Strategies Overall Low Cost Leadership Strategy Differentiation Strategy Focused Low Cost Strategy Focused Differentiation Strategy Low Cost Differentiation Broad Market Segment Narrow Market Segment Best Cost Strategy

32. Generic Strategies and Industry Forces Rivals cannot meet differentiation-focused customer needs. Brand loyalty to keep customers from rivals. Better able to compete on price. Rivalry Specialized products & core competency protect against substitutes. Customer's become attached to differentiating attributes, reducing threat of substitutes. Can use low price to defend against substitutes. Threat of Substitutes Suppliers have power because of low volumes, but a differentiation-focused firm is better able to pass on supplier price increases. Better able to pass on supplier price increases to customers. Better insulated from powerful suppliers. Supplier Power Large buyers have less power to negotiate because of few alternatives. Large buyers have less power to negotiate because of few close alternatives. Ability to offer lower price to powerful buyers. Buyer Power Focusing develops core competencies that can act as an entry barrier. Customer loyalty can discourage potential entrants. Ability to cut price in retaliation deters potential entrants. Entry Barriers Focus Differentiation Cost Leadership Generic Strategies Industry Force

33. Strategy Implementation and Execution

34. Strategy Implementation Building a capable organization Designing strategy-supportive reward system Creating a strategy-supportive corporate culture Exerting strategic leadership Linking budget to strategy Establishing strategy-supportive policies and procedures Instituting best practices and commitment to continuous improvement Installing information system to support strategy execution HR & Organization Development Factor System Factor Effective Strategy Execution

35. Building a Capable Organization Building a capable organization Staffing the organization Putting together a strong management team Recruiting and retaining talented employees Building Core Competencies and Capabilities Developing competence/capability portfolio suited to current strategy Updating and reshaping the portfolio as external conditions and strategy change Structuring the Organization and Work Effort Organizing business function and processes, value chain activities, and decision making

36. Strategy-supportive Reward System Designing strategy-supportive reward system Strategy-supportive motivational practices and reward systems are powerful management tools for gaining employee buy-in and commitment. The key to creating a reward system that promotes good strategy execution is to make strategically relevant measures of performance the dominating basis for designing incentives, evaluating individual and group efforts, and handing out rewards.

37. Strategy-supportive Corporate Culture Creating a strategy-supportive corporate culture Building a strategy-supportive culture is important to successful strategy execution because it produces a work climate and organizational esprit de corps that thrive on meeting performance targets and being part of a winning effort.

38. Strategic Leadership Exerting strategic leadership Strategic leaders encourage people to be innovative in order to keep the organization responsive to changing conditions, alert to new opportunities, and anxious to pursue fresh initiatives. Strategic leaders also actively push corrective actions to improve strategy execution and overall strategic performance.

39. Linking Budget to Strategy Linking budget to strategy Reworking the budget to make it more strategy-supportive is a crucial part of the implementation process because every organization unit needs to have the people, equipment, facilities, and other resources to carry out its part of the strategic plan.

40. Strategy-supportive Policy Establishing strategy-supportive policies and procedures Prescribing new or freshly revised policies and operating procedures aids the task of implementation (1) by promoting consistency in how particular strategy-critical activities are performed in geographically scattered operating units and (2) by helping to create a strategy-supportive work climate and corporate culture.

41. Continuous Improvement Instituting best practices and commitment to continuous improvement Competent strategy execution entails visible, unyielding managerial commitment to best practices and continuous improvement. Benchmarking, the discovery and adoption of best practices, and six sigma initiatives all aim at improved efficiency, better product, and greater customer satisfaction.

42. Information Support System Installing information system to support strategy execution Company strategies can’t be implemented well without a number of support system to carry on business operations. Well-conceived, state-of-the-art support system not only facilitate better strategy execution but can also strengthen organizational capabilities enough to provide a competitive edge over rivals.

43. Recommended Further Readings Arthur Thompson and A.J. Strickland III, Strategic Management : Concept and Cases , McGraw-Hill Michael Porter, Competitive Strategy : Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors , Free Press

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