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Environment
Development of Strategic Advantage by an organization
Strategic Advantage
Organizational Capability
Competencies
Synergistic effects
Tangible Intangible
Capabilities
Plant & equipment Information,
Technology Knowledge
Geographic location Processes
Human Resources Training
Access to raw Experience
materials Relationships
Four Characteristics of organizational
resources for Strategic Advantage
Organizational Resources Strategic Advantage
Valuable
Rare
Costly to imitate
Non Substitutable
Organizational Behaviour
Forces affecting organizational behaviour
Quality of leadership
Management philosophy
Shared values and culture
Quality of work environment
Organizational climate
Organizational politics
Use of power
Synergy
Price Distribution
Promotion
Product
Marketing
Synergy
Dysergy/
Marketing Production
Negative
Inefficiency Inefficiency Synergy
Organizational Competencies
Competencies Special qualities possessed by
an organization that make them withstand
pressures of competition in the marketplace.
Core competencies When an organization
uses its competencies exceedingly well they
become core competencies
Distinctive competencies Any advantage a
company has over its competitors because it
can do something which they cannot or it can
do something better than they can
Organizational Capability
The inherent capacity or potential of an
organization to use its strengths and
overcome its weaknesses in order to exploit
opportunities and face threats in its external
environment
Potential
Capacity
Organizational Capability leads to Strategic
advantage or competitive advantage
Exit barriers - when barriers to leaving an industry are high (e.g. the cost
of closing down factories) - then competitors tend to exhibit greater
rivalry.
Economic high investment commitment
Strategic- interlinkages between different resources- own supplier or buyer
Emotional- Sentimental attachment- ancestral business- loyalty to employees
or distributors