Strategic Management

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  • is an integrated and coordinated set of commitments and actions designed to exploit core competencies and gain a competitive advantage.
    STRATEGY
  • it implements a strategy that creates superior value for customers and that its competitors are unable to duplicate or find too costly to imitate
    COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
  • It excesses of what an investor expects to earn from other investments with a similar amount of risk.
    Above-average returns
  • is an investor's uncertainty about the economic gains or losses that will result from a particular investment.
    Risk
  • It is equal to those an investor expects to earn from other investments with a ith a similar amount of risk.
    Average returns
  • is the full set of commitments, decisions, and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average returns.
    Strategic management process
  • It is a fundamental nature of competition in many of the world's industries is changing Although financial capital is no longer scarce due to the deep recession, markets are increasingly volatile.
    THE COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
  • it is describing competition that is excessive such that it creates inherent instability and necessitates constant disruptive change for firms in the competitive landscape.
    HYPERCOMPETITION
  • is one in which goods, services, people, skills, and ideas move freely.
    The Global Economy
  • is the increasing economic interdependence among countries and their organizations reflected in the flow of goods and services, financial capital, and knowledge acrosa country borders.
    Globalization
  • It is related trends and conditions can be placed into three categories: technology diffusion and disruptive technologies, the information age, and increasing knowledge intensity.
    Technology and Technological Changes
  • It is the speed at which new technologies become available and are used, has increased substantially over the past 15 to 20 year.

    Technology Diffusion and Disruptive Technologies
  • It is a dramatic change in information technology (IT) have occurred in recent years.
    The Information Age
  • It is the basis of technology and its application.
    Increasing Knowledge Intensity
  • It is a set of capabilities used to respond to various demands and opportunities existing in a dynamic and uncertain competitive environment.
    Strategic flexibility
  • It is the set of factors that directly influences a firm and its competitive actions and responses.
    The Industry Environment
  • It is a most firms face external environments that are turbulent, complex, and global conditions that make interpreting those environments difficult.
    External Environmental Analysis
  • It is a condition in the general environment that, if exploited effectively, helps a company reach strategic competitiveness.
    OPPORTUNITY
  • It is a condition in the general environment that may hinder a company's.efforts to achieve strategic competitiveness.
    THREAT
  • It is the study of all segments in the general environment.
    scanning
  • It is emerging from among those spotted through scanning.
    MONITORING
  • It is a concerned with events and trends in the general environment at a point in time.
    Forcasting
  • It is the objective is to determine the timing and significance of the effects of environmental changes and trends that have been identified.
    assessing
  • It is a composed of segments that are external to the firm. Although the degree of impact varies, these environmental segments affect all industries and the firms competing in them.
    general environment
  • It is a concerned with a population's size, age structure, geographic distribution, ethnic mix, and income distribution.
    demographic segment
  • is distributed within countries.
    and regions is subject to change over time.
    GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
  • mix of countries population countries to
    change, creating opportunities and threats for
     many as a result.
    ETHNIC MIX
  • is distributed within and
    across populations informs firms of different groups purchasing power and discretionary income.
    INCOME DISTRIBUTION