Tuesday, February 26, 2013

WEEK 2

Week 2: 
Answer 1
Strategy management simply means analyzing major initiatives taken by the top level management on behave of owner including performance in external environment and resources. It directly specifies the organization mission, objectives and vision, developing plans and policies, and allocates resources to implement plan and policies. In other word, it can be defined as the identification of the purpose of the organization and the plans and actions to achieve the purpose. It is that set of managerial decisions and actions that determine the long term performance of a business enterprise. It involves formulating and implementing strategies that will help in aligning the organization and its environment to achieve organizational goals.(lamb. C.W, 2013)
The Oxford Dictionary defines strategy as:
a.       A plan that is intended to achieve a particular purpose: to develop a strategy for dealing with unemployment. It‘s all part of an overall strategy to gain promotion.  The government‘s economic strategy.
b.      The process of planning something or putting a plan into operation in a skillful way: marketing strategy
c.       The skill of planning the movements of armies in a battle or war; an example of doing this: military strategy. Defense strategies—compare tactic  (Oxford Dictionaries, 2013)
Answer 2                                                              
The similar between business strategy and military strategy are as follow.
a.       Both strategy focus on full execution and have aim of success and win.
b.      Military leader continually study a strategy, history of strategy, update and upgrade and adapting such to a current situation. Whereas this happen similar in top level management in business.
c.       Based on extensive experience military strategies include intuition whereas it applies same to business leader.
d.      The military saying of ‘Do not give up ground earned because it is too costly to get it back’. This is similar to business with the importance to keep customers and market share and how costly and lengthy time to get back if lost to competition.
The different between business strategy and military strategy are as follow.
a.       The main difference between their strategy are in there mission and purpose. The purpose of business strategy is to increase the interest of stakeholder whereas the purpose of military strategy is to win a nation’ war (security).
b.      The military structure is base on vertical it mean senior don’t pass the more responsibility to junior. Whereas the business structure is base on collaborative and matrix.
c.       The career progression for military is fix and certain like after few years the post will be upgraded. But the business world is different .it can’t be easily predicted.
Answer 3
Strategic analysis
Strategic analysis is the process of viewing what is happening outside the organization now and in future. Basically it deals with two questions and they are how the current situation affects us and what would be our response to likely change. It includes external environment, resources that the organization have and mission, vision and objectives of the organization.
Strategic development  
Strategic developments are known as strategic planning. It is also a fundamental for creating and running a business. For example: it’s a game plan that set specific goals and objectives but like a game plan it is capable of being changed in response to shifting market dynamics.
Strategic implementation
It’s the process of translating of specific strategy into action for achievement of the organization goal. It is also defined as the manner in which an organization should develop, utilize, and amalgamate organizational structure, control systems, and culture to follow strategies that lead to competitive advantage and a better performance


(Case Study)
Answer a
Well I had a very good experience with case study because at final I came to know the different strategy used for developing the rural area.

Answer b
The answer I gave to the question for case study is as follow
a.       They are interlinking with motorways to London as well as decent train link.
b.      They have advantage of being near to major cities link Oxford and Cambridge.
c.       In 1980s, Milton Keynes and Peterborough ran national TV advertising campaigns intended to attract family and business.
d.      The living expenses are very low as compare to major cities like London.
e.       Due to enough space to land they can built anything for development like conduct business, build roadways and universities etc.

The reason that their growth strategy be mad are all three town business are complaining that they are not getting a highly skill degree holder. There is a direct effect on environment due to construction of road, malls and universities. I think it is good strategy for development because they are building a roadways, mall and universities. These will definitely going to increase the living standard of the people.At this time am not interested to live there because the town lack of restaurant and bars. And also after workers drive dome at six o’ clock the town will be like a deserted. 

Answer c
It was not so easy to find the answer for the question because we have to find the strategy used by them to develop the place.

Answer d
Even though the answer was different from each other all the member from class mate was agree with others answer.

Reference
1.      lamb. C.W, (2013), Business Plan Strategy, (online) https://www.boundless.com/management/strategic-management/strategic-management/what-is-a-strategy/ (Accessed on April 7,2013)
2.      Oxford Dictionaries,(2013), Strategic Management, (online) www.businessdictionary.com/definition/strategic-management.htm (Accessed on April 8, 2013)
3.      Chaffee, E. “Three models of strategy”, Academy of Management Review, vol 10, no. 1, 1985.











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