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Describe strategic planning - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Making decisions
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about the organization's long-term goals and strategies
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Describe strategic goals - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔major target long-term
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goals that are effective and efficient
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describe strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔pattern of actions and resource
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allocations designed to achieve the goals of the organization. 1. Where will we
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be active? 2. How will we get there (increase sales or acquire another
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company)? 3. How will we win the in the marketplace (keep prices low or offer ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




the best service)? 4. how fast will we move in what sequence will we make the
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changes? 5.How will we obtain financial returns (low cost or premium prices)?
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*In setting a strategy, managers try to match the organization's skills and
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resources to the opportunities found in the external environment.
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Explain what a Core Competency/ Capability means for an organization. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Core Capability: (or competence) when resources ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




are valuable, rare, inimitable, and organized. Something company does
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especially well relative to its competitors. (EX: Honda small engine) Core
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competencies typically refers to a set of skills or expertise in some activity ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




rather than physical or financial assets.
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,Porter's 5 Model - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Porter's 5 Model is a method used
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to help managers analyze the competitive environment and adapt to or
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influence the nature of their competition. ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




Describe Porter's 5 Model and how it is used in the strategic planning process. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. understand the competitive environment, ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




organization's must identify competitors. ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




2. analyze how to compete.
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3. new entrants (Netflix took out blockbuster)
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4. substitutes and complements (coke for starbucks; starbucks complement is a
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cake pop) 5. suppliers: switching costs ( fixed costs buyers face when they
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change suppliers), supply chain management ( managing of the network of
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facilities and people that obtain materials from outside the organization,
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transform them into products, and distribute them to customers.) ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




6. customers: without customers a company wont survive (final customer ex:
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mcdonalds) (Intermediate customer ex: customer who purchases raw materials ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




or wholesale products before selling them)
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Explain a SWOT Analysis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. SWOT analysis: ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




assessment of the organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




threats

2. SWOT analysis helps managers summarize the relevant important facts from
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their external and internal analysis
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SWOT analysis strengths and weaknesses - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-strength
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and weaknesses: interal recources
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, EX: organization's strengths might include skilled management, positive cash
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flow, and well-known highly regarded brands.
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Weakness might be lack of spare production capacity and the absence of ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




reliable suppliers |||||




SWOT analysis opportunities and threats - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-SWOT
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analysis helps managers summarize the relevant, important fats from their
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external and internal analysis. ||||| ||||| |||||




-they can identify the primary and secondary strategic issues their organization
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faces. The managers then formulate a strategy that will build on the SWOT
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analysis to take advantage of available opportunities by capitalizing on the
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organization's strengths, neutralizing its weakness, and countering potential ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




threats.



How SWOT analysis helps managers: - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-SWOT
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analysis helps managers summarize the relevant, important fats from their
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external and internal analysis. ||||| ||||| |||||




-they can identify the primary and secondary strategic issues their organization
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faces. The managers then formulate a strategy that will build on the SWOT
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analysis to take advantage of available opportunities by capitalizing on the
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organization's strengths, neutralizing its weakness, and countering potential ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||




threats.



Name the 5 types of corporate strategies that organizations use - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔1. corportate strategy ||||| ||||| |||||




2. concentration strategy
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3. vertical integration strategy
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