Strategy Implementation

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Session 18

• Strategy Implementation

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Strategic Management Model
Company mission social responsibility
External Environment
Internal analysis
Possible?
Desired?
Strategic analysis choice
Long-term objectives
Generic grand strategies
Feedback
Feedback
Short-term objectives reward system
Functional tactics
Policies that empower action
Restructuring, reengineering refocusing the
organization
Legend
Major impact
Strategic control continuous improvement
Minor impact
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Strategy Implementation
Identify short-term objectives
Initiate specific functional tactics
Communicate policies to empower people
Design effective support systems
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What are Short-Term Objectives?
Provide specific guidance for what is to be done,
translating vision into action
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Role of Short-Term Objectives in Implementing
Strategy
1. Operationalize long-term objectives
2. Raise issues and potential conflicts requiring
coordination to avoid dysfunctional consequences
3. Identify measurable outcomes of functional
activities to be used to make feedback,
correction, and evaluation more relevant
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Potential Conflicting Objectives and Priorities
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Relationship of Functional Tactics (Action Plans)
to Short-Term Objectives
Specificity - Identify functional activities to
be undertaken to build competitive advantage
Provide a clear time frame for completion
Identify who is responsible for each action in
the plan
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Qualities of Effective Short-term Objectives
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Creating Measurable Objectives
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Value-Added Benefits of Short-Term Objectives
Give operating personnel a better understanding
of their role in a firms mission
Provide basis for accomplishing conflicting
concerns
Provide basis for strategic control
Motivation - Clarify personal and group roles in
a firms strategies
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What are Functional Tactics?
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Functional Tactics at General Cinema Corporation
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Differences Between Business Strategies and
Functional Tactics
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Characteristics of Functional Tactics in
Production/Operations

• Viewed as core function of an organization
• Involves converting inputs into value-enhanced
  output
• Focuses on decisions regarding
• Basic nature of firms POM system,
• Seeks optimum balance between investment input
  and production/operations output
• Location
• Facilities design
• Process planning on a short-term basis

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Key Functional Tactics in POM
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Characteristics of Functional Tactics in Marketing

• Lead to strategic success of the firm through the
  profitable sale of products/services in target
  markets
• Clearly identify customer needs that
  products/services aim to meet
• Identify where, when, and by whom
  products/services are to be sold
• Define how firm will communicate with target
  markets
• Directly influence supply, demand, profitability,
  consumer perception, and regulatory response
  through pricing

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Key Functional Tactics in Marketing
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Characteristics of Functional Tactics in
Accounting and Finance

• Time frame of finance tactics varies because they
  direct use of financial resources supporting the
  business strategy, long-term goals, and annual
  objectives
• Long-term tactics guide decisions in
• Long-term capital investment
• Debt financing
• Dividend allocation
• Leveraging
• Short-term tactics guide decisions in
• Managing working capital and short-term assets
• Accounting-focused tactics have taken on
  increased strategic significance in last decade

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Key Functional Tactics in Finance and Accounting
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Characteristics of Functional Tactics in RD

• Assumed a key strategic role in many firms due to
  increasing rate of technological change
• May be more critical instruments of business
  strategy in some industries than in others

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Key Functional Tactics in RD
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Characteristics of Functional Tactics in HRM

• Assumed increasing strategic importance in the
  1990s
• Aid long-term success in
• Development of managerial talent and competent
  employees
• Creating systems to manage compensation or
  regulatory concerns
• Guiding effective utilization of human resources
  to achieve both the
• Firms short-term objectives
• Employees satisfaction and development

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Key Functional Tactics in HRM
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Role of Policies in Implementing Strategy

• Directives designed to guide thinking, decisions,
  and actions of managers and employees in
  implementing strategy
• Increase managerial effectiveness by
• Standardizing many routine decisions
• Clarifying discretion managers and employees can
  exercise in implementing functional tactics
• Should be derived from functional tactics with
  key purpose of aiding strategy execution

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Why Policies Empower People
1. Establish indirect control over independent
action by clearly stating how things are to be
done now
2. Promote uniform handling of similar activities
3. Ensure quicker decisions by standardizing
answers to previously answered questions
4. Institutionalize basic aspects of
organization behavior
5. Reduce uncertainty in repetitive and
day-to-day decision making
6. Counteract resistance to or rejection of
chosen strategies by organization members
7. Offer predetermined answers to routine
problems
8. Afford managers a mechanism for avoiding
hasty and ill-conceived decisions in changing
operations
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Advantages of Formal Written Policies
1. Require managers to think through policys
meaning, content, and intended use
2. Reduce misunderstanding
3. Make equitable and consistent treatment of
problems more likely
4. Ensure unalterable transmission of policies
5. Communicate authorization or sanction of
policies more clearly
6. Supply a convenient and authoritative reference
7. Systematically enhance indirect control and
organization-wide coordination of the key
purposes of policies
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Types of Executive Bonus Compensation