5
Chapter
Foundations
of
Planning
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Learning Outcomes
• Discuss the nature and purposes of planning.
• Explain what managers do in the strategic
management process.
• Compare and contrast approaches to goal setting
and planning.
• Discuss contemporary issues in planning.
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5.1 Discuss the nature
and purposes of
planning.
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What is Planning?
Planning:
The primary management function.
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Reasons for Planning
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Criticisms of Formal Planning
• May create rigidity.
• Can’t replace intuition and creativity.
• Focuses attention on today’s success, not
tomorrow’s survival.
• Reinforces success, which may lead to failure.
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Formal Planning and Organizational
Performance
Does it pay to plan?
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Higher profits
Higher return on assets
Improved quality of planning
Appropriate implementation
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5.2 Explain what
managers do in the
strategic
management
process.
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Strategic Management
What managers do to develop an organization’s
strategies.
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The Importance of Strategic
Management
• It has a positive impact on organizational
performance.
• It prepares managers to cope with changing
situations.
• It guides managers to examine relevant factors in
planning future action.
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Steps in the Strategic Management
Process
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Step 1: Mission, Goals & Strategies
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External and Internal Analyses
Step 2: External
Analysis
•Competition
•Components of
environment
•Threats and
opportunities
Step 3: Internal
Analysis
•Resources
•Capabilities
•Core competencies
•Organizational
strengths and
weaknesses
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Formulating, Implementing, and
Evaluating Results
Step 4:
Formulating Strategies
•Corporate
•Business
•Functional
Step 6: Evaluating
Results
•How effective have
strategies been?
•What adjustments are
necessary?
Step 5:
Implementing Strategies
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Strategies Managers Use
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Stability and Renewal Strategies
Stability strategy:
Organization continues
to do what it’s doing
Renewal strategy:
Organization addresses
declining organizational
performance
• Retrenchment
• Turnaround
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Competitive Strategy
A competitive strategy is a strategy for how an
organization will compete in its business.
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Competitive Advantage
What sets an organization apart; its distinctive
edge that comes from its core competencies and
resources.
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Functional Strategy
Those strategies used by an organization’s various
functional departments to support the
competitive strategy.
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Strategic Weapons
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Customer service
Employee skills & loyalty
Innovation
Quality
Social media
Big data
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Strategic Weapons (cont.)
5. Social Media
•Help people connect
•Reduce costs and/or
increase revenue.
6. Big Data
Translate business
knowledge into
improved decision
making and
performance.
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5.3 Compare and
contrast
approaches to goal
setting and
planning.
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Setting Goals and Developing Plans
Types of Plans
Financial versus strategic
Stated versus real
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Traditional Goal Setting
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Management by Objectives
1.
2.
3.
4.
Goal specificity
Participative decision making
Explicit time period
Performance feedback
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