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SUCCESS FACTORS
Figure 4.1,
Doing an
independent
and honest
review of each
aspect
Matching what
needs to be done
With what can be
done
In all aspects of
the business
Examining the
organizational profile
Determining the level of
competence the organization
has as to:
o/t
Social
Political
Economic
Technological
Issue
o/t
supply
products
New
entrants
to the
market
Buyers
Suppliers
Rivalries
Among
Ski Areas
T
7
o/t
Customers
Demographic
Competitive
Position
Product
Quality
Creditors
Financial
Claims
T
8
Employees
Availability
Quantity
Suppliers
Ecological
issues
Impact
Step 3, a partially
complete organizational profile.
Figure 4.8,
Major areas
Strategic
planning
Marketing
Financial and
accounting
Potential issues
Quality of long and
short range
S/W
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objectives
Market share
Profitability
Explanation
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Human
resource
Efficiency of
production
Management is willing to
hold others responsible
and accountable, but they
are not willing to delegate
authority and control.
processes
Union/Management
relationship
management
Organization
and
management
Willingness of
management to
delegate tasks and
authority.
12
Decline
Growth
Development
Growth
Rate
Profits
13
Figure 4.10,
Function
Marketing
& Sales
Finance
Development
Growth
Maturity
Decline
Create wide
spread
awareness.
Establish brand
recognition. Find
effective
marketing
channels.
Hold existing
markets and
promote to new
markets.
Introduce
successor
products to
extend maturity.
Focus on the
best channels.
Replace old
products with
new ones.
Finance initial
R&D losses.
Finance
expansion and
net cash
outflows.
Reinvest profits
and employ cost
controls.
Prune the
product line and
harvest the
resources from
liquidation.
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R&D
Human
Resources
Limit number of
designs, use
standards.
Increase
capacity while
retaining quality.
Improve the
product and
reduce
operating costs.
Re-deploy
unused
equipment,
simplify
processes and
reduce product
variants.
Ability to make
changes and
take the bugs
out.
Focus on quality
and ability to
make product
variants to
satisfy
customers.
Improve
processes to
reduce costs
and introduce
successor
products.
Commit
resources to
new growth
products.
Flexibility in
staffing and
training.
Motivated and
loyal workforce
with excellent
product
knowledge and
selling skills.
Reduce
workforce and
increase
efficiency.
Reduce and
reallocate
personnel.
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Focus
area
Development
Growth
Maturity
Decline
Engineering
and
Sales and
market
Finance and
investment
marketing
share
Production
efficiency
and
successors
recovery
16
Internal
Weakness
Internal
Strength
Environmental
Threats
17
Figure 4.12,
SWOT Analysis
Environmental
Opportunities
Internal
Weakness
Internal
Strength
Environmental
threats
18
the cells
of a SWOT diagram
Figure 4.13,
Environmental
Opportunities
Cell A
Redesign practices
Cell B
Be aggressive
Internal
Weakness
Internal
Strength
Cell C
Be Defensive
Cell D
Use your strengths in
new places
Environmental
threats
19
20
Retrenchment/turn around
Joint Venture
Strategic Alliance
21
22
Product development
Market development
Vertical Integration
23
24
Divestiture
Liquidation
25
26
Horizontal Integration
Concentric Diversification
27
Summary