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Management
Evolution of Strategy and Business
Policy
• Harvard Business School introducing
integrative course
• Gordon and Howell Report
• Pierson report
• Association to Advance Collegiate School of
Business (AACSB) initiative
Evolutionary Phases of Business Policy
• Formulation of Strategies
– Environment appraisal
– Organisational appraisal
– Mooting corporate and business strategy
– Strategic analysis
– Strategic choice
– Formulating strategies
– Preparing strategic plan
Phases in strategic Management
contd…
• Implementation of strategies
– Activating strategy
• Project
• Procedural implementation
• Resource Allocation
– Structural Implementation
– Behavioural Implementation
• Leadership
• Corporate culture
• Politics and Power
• CSR
– Functional and Operational Implementation
• Strategic Evaluation
• Strategic control
Strategic Management Model
Scope of strategy
• product-market scope : Product and market
• growth vector: direction
• competitive advantage : How to better than
rival
• Synergy creation: common string
Mintzberg’s view
1. Strategy as a Plan:- this is regarded as a
consciously intended course of action.
2. Strategy as a Ploy:- this is regarded as a specific
maneuver intended to outwit a competitor.
3. Strategy as a Pattern:- this is regarded as
consistency in behaviour whether intended or not.
4. Strategy as a Position:- this is regarded as a
means of locating an organisation in an
environment.
5. Strategy as a Perspective:- this is regarded as an
ingrained way of perceiving the world.
Deliberate versus Emergent Strategies
Sustained
Realized Superior
Unrealized Strategy Performance
Strategy
Emergent Strategy
Adapted from: Mintzberg, H. “The Strategy Concept I: Five Ps for Strategy” California Management Review. Volume 30
Number1, Fall 1987.
Strategy formulation as a left-brain,
right-brain, or group process
Economic Capabilities:
Technical Financial
Physical Managerial
Political Consideration of Functional
Social all combinations Organizational
Reputation
Community History
Nation
World Corporate
Evaluation to determine Resources
best match of
opportunity and resources
As extending or
constraining
Opportunities opportunity
and Risks
Choice of Products Identification of
Identification and Markets strengths and
Inquiry weaknesses
Assessment of Risk Economic Strategy
Programs for
increasing
capability
Rajesh Tripathi 19
McKinsey’s 7s Model
Levels of strategy
• Corporate
• SBU
• Functional
Level of strategy contd.
Corpor
ate