...Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Michael A. Clinton Professor Gerald R. Turner Business Administration Capstone- BUS 499 Jul 19, 2012 Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) is currently one of the fastest growing companies here in the Charleston, SC area for the past few years. SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The Company's approximately 41,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of approximately $10.6 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2012. (About SAIC 2012) SAIC is rank number 5 on the Top 100 government contractors list of Washington Technology; with $4.1 billion in government contracts revenue and $1.4 billion in civilian contracts revenue and approximately 41,000 employees worldwide. SAIC is the principal defense contractor for Joint Intelligence Operations Capability-Iraq (JIOC-I), a capability that provides military forces with access to critical intelligence while it...
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...Latrice Smith BUS 499 Week 2 Assignment 1: Strategic Management & Strategic Competitiveness Dr. Machuca 7/13/2014 Globalization is a concept that can be positive as well as negative as it refers to companies around the world and the effects it has on the global economy. Globalization can be referred to as a global movement that is integrating economic, financial, trade, and communications. Globalization will continue to be a force around the world because the global economy is continuing to be more dependent on each other. Even though globalization has been going on for centuries, there has been a new wave of policy and technological developments that have increased relations between trade and investment, and has led to a newer phase of global economic development ("What is globalization | Globalization101", n.d.). A positive outlook on globalization is the fact that there has been a reduction in the prices of goods and services throughout the world. It is reported that the volume of world trade has increased by 20 times, and the foreign investment between 1997 and 1999 has doubled from $468 billion to $827 billion ("What is globalization | Globalization101", n.d.). The negative aspect of globalization can be seen as a downfall for some companies that have not been keeping up with the demands of globalization and contributing to the some economies that are not the most stable because of unemployment and companies closing. Some can also argue that globalization has...
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...Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Name Professor BUS 499 Business Administration- Capstone Strayer University- Maitland Campus April 13, 2014 Abstract The purpose of the paper is to research and understand how the changes of globalization and technology have impacted the Airline industry. This paper will also apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how the Airline industry earn above-average returns. This paper will explain how the Airline industry’s success is through its mission and vision statements with Southwest Airlines as an example. Finally, this paper will evaluate how the importance each category of the stakeholder impacts are to the overall success of the Airline industry. Globalization and Technology In today’s business industry, the globalization process has become an important aspect and fundamental force. The elements that contribute to globalization is the environment, culture, regulation and technology and production. While the advancements globalization has increased greatly, so has the advancements in airline industry with their aircraft (Shevell, 1999). Globalization also provides a great amount of potential profits to nations and their corporations (Button, 2008). Air transportation has evolved into a major industry (Kroo, 1999). The airline industry’s continuously grows and is facilitated through its international investment...
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...Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Paul Warren Strayer University BUS 499 Dr. Hase November 2, 2014 Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched What is Globalization? How does it affect a company? What does it do for a country? What are some major benefits of going global? Who are the recipients of these benefits, if there are any? Let’s get started by answering the first question. “Globalization is the increasing economic interdependence among countries and their organizations as reflected in the flow of goods and services, financial capital, and knowledge across country borders” (Hitt, Ireland, Hoskisson, pg. 9. 2013). Starbucks, an American company headquartered in Seattle, Washington is one of the most global companies I know of with more than 20,000 stores in over 50 countries around the world. I have had the opportunity to enjoy the taste of home in at least 5 different countries, which are almost the same as home but more geared to the host country tastes. As you can see, going global allowed for expansion into different markets around the world, which in return lead to countries who supply products to reach those markets as well. For instance, Starbucks by coffee from places such as Africa, Latin America and Asia by doing so this creates jobs in those areas and increases export of goods. These are major benefits from all parties involved. Coffee drinker benefit the most as they...
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...Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Student’s name: Professor’s name: Course title: BUS 499 (Business Admin and Capstone) Date: Introduction When we talk about the largest coffeehouse company, the first thing that comes to your mind is Starbucks. Starbucks Corporation was launched in 1971, it corporation is based in Seattle, Washington and has more than 16,000 outlets all over the world. Starbucks always believe that serving the best coffee is there aim, there coffee beans are grown under highest quality standards and sourced using ethical practices. Starbucks s not only limited to selling coffee but also sells verity of products, viz. coffee (more than 30 blends and single origin premium coffees), handcrafted beverages (Frappuccino, smoothies, Tazo tea, fresh brewed coffee), Merchandise (coffee and tea brewing equipment, mugs and accessories, packaged goods, music, books and gifts), Fresh Food (Baked pastries, sandwiches, salads, oatmeal, yogurt parfaits and fruit cups) and Consumer Products (coffee and tea, ready to drink products and ice-creams). They also carry other brands under their trademark Starbucks Coffee, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Tazo Tea, Evolution Fresh, La Boulange and Torrefazione Italia Coffee (Starbucks, 2012). Impact of Globalization and Technology The corporation I researched was Starbucks. Starbucks is a worldwide corporation that operates in around 62 countries around the world. Just like every other corporation that...
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...Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness 1 Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Cherise Bacon Dr. Williams BUS 499 - Business Administration Capstone April 16, 2014 Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness 2 Coca Cola declares that their company serves as the standard against which we weigh our actions and decisions. * To refresh the world * To inspire moments of optimism and happiness * To increase value and make a difference Coca Cola vision serves as the framework for our roadmap and guides every aspect of their business by describing what the need to accomplish in order to continue achieving sustainable, quality growth. People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best they can be. Portfolio: Bring to the world a portfolio of quality beverage brands the antipate and satisfy people’s desires and needs. Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers together to create mutual, enduring value. Planet: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference by helping build and support sustainable communities. Profit: Maximize long-term return to share owners while being mindful of their overall responsibilities. Productivity: Be highly effective, lean and fast organization. (By Coca-Cola company). Assignment 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness 3 ...
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...The Management of Strategy: Concepts and Cases 9e Part I: Strategic Management Inputs Chapter 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness ©2011 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part. Chapter 1: Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness • Overview: Eight content areas – – – – – – – – Nature of Competition The Competitive Landscape I/O Model of Above-Average Returns (AAR) Resource-Based Model of AAR Vision and Mission Stakeholders Strategic Leaders The Strategic Management Process ©2011 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part. Nature of Competition: McDonald’s • McDonald’s creates value for customers through: – Business-level strategies • Product Innovation • Upgrading existing restaurants • Listened to customers – value menu, healthier items, more convenience • Purchasing European property for future expansion – Corporate-level strategies • Disposed of its interests in other restaurants ©2011 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be scanned, copied or duplicated, or posted to a publicly accessible website, in whole or in part. Nature of Competition: Basic concepts • Strategic Competitiveness – Achieved when a firm formulate & implements a valuecreating strategy • Strategy – Integrated and coordinated set of...
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...Strategic Managemen Essay Subject :s Strategic Management Topic : Is Business Strategy A Mixture Of Luck And Judgement, Opportunities And Design, Or More Of An Art Than A Science? Abstract Firms or companies today face a broad array of risks, problems and issues internal to them and external factors relative to increased international competition due to globalisation. Thus, strategic management is an activity necessary to be undertaken by firms who want to sustain their existence in today’s highly competitive environment. Firms need to develop strategies as they are managements’ game plan for growing the business, staking out a market position, attracting and pleasing customers, competing successfully, conducting operations, and achieving targeted objectives. Strategic management is the set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the longrun performance of a firm. The question however arises as to whether strategic management is an art or a science or that it is simply a mixture of luck and good judgement. Introduction Firms or companies today face a broad array of risks, problems and issues, be they strategic, operational, financial, customer, vendor, competitor, to name a few. Moreover, concerns about increased international competition brought about by the rapid globalisation phenomenon abound not only in the US but also in Europe with the further expansion of the European Union and in Asia and Latin America due to increased economic integration in these...
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...competition due to globalisation. Thus, strategic management is an activity necessary to be undertaken by firms who want to sustain their existence in today’s highly competitive environment. Firms need to develop strategies as they are managements’ game plan for growing the business, staking out a market position, attracting and pleasing customers, competing successfully, conducting operations, and achieving targeted objectives. Strategic management is the set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long-run performance of a firm. The question however arises as to whether strategic management is an art or a science or that it is simply a mixture of luck and good judgement. Introduction Firms or companies today face a broad array of risks, problems and issues, be they strategic, operational, financial, customer, vendor, competitor, to name a few. Moreover, concerns about increased international competition brought about by the rapid globalisation phenomenon abound not only in the US but also in Europe with the further expansion of the European Union and in Asia and Latin America due to increased economic integration in these regions. Management experts therefore have argued time and again that firms or companies should respond to environmental changes, such as increased competition, by engaging in more systematic planning to anticipate and respond to changing and unforeseen events. The reason for this argument is because formal strategic planning has been seen to enhance...
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...Effects on Quality Management Jennifer Banks-Milbry MGT/449 October 25, 2011 Benjamin Richardson Effects on Quality Management The airline industry has grown over the past years and has become the major form of transportation. The airline industry has taken over the global market in ones opinion. The air travel industry remains to be the largest and growing industry in the world. The airline industry facilitates economic growth, world trade, international investments, and tourism, which is the central source of globalization, which is taking place in many industries (The Airline Industry, 2011). This paper will describe and explain the strategic planning process from beginning to end, the competitiveness in the domestic and global market, and the effects of quality management. Strategic Planning Process and SWOT Analysis In any organization, there has to be a strategic planning process. A strategic plan is the process whereby an organization develops a vision, mission, guiding principles, broad objectives, and specific strategies for achieving the broad objectives (Goetsch and Davis, 2010). Before an organization begins the planning process, they must first conduct a SWOT analysis. The SWOT analysis answers questions that deal with the organization strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (Goetsch and Davis, 2010). The strategic planning process as indicated in figure 3-1 in the textbook Quality Management for Organizational Excellence is as...
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...Globalization of the social economy will further increase during the 21st century. The mission of international air transportation will become more important, and all airports around the world will have a significant role to play. Furthermore, it is predicted that air transportation demand in the world will double over the next 15 years. In the meantime, since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the environment surrounding the aviation industry has become very severe and has caused adverse impact to the entire aviation industry. Security at airports has been reinforced in all aspects, significantly deteriorated on-time performance, caused mass congestion at the airport, and caused a drastic increase in aviation management and operational costs. Owing to...
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...A Critical Review of ‘Strategy as Stretch and Leverage’ Academics argue a lot on strategic approaches that a company should make to gain competitiveness advantages over its competitors. Hamel and Prahalad (1993) challenge the traditional way and come up with ‘stretch’ and ‘leverage’ concepts to exhibit a whole new way to run a company. This essay aims to give a critical review of this article in the wider debate, theoretical underpinnings and main strengths and weaknesses. There are so many definitions about strategy in academics, and among them one of the fittest definition according to this article is come up by Johnson et al. (2008, p.3), ‘Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term, which achieves advantage in a changing environment through its configuration of resources and competences with the aim of fulfilling stakeholder expectations’. Hamel and Prahalad (1993) state this at the very beginning that ‘Competitiveness is born in the gap between a company’s resources and its managers’ goals’ (p.75). It is further supported that competing strategy requires operations as a key factor and operations also make a significant contribution to the competitive success of such an organization by using a resource-based framework in the development of operations strategy (Hayes and Pisano, 1994; Hayes and Upton, 1998). Also in the wider debates, Whittington’s (1993) classification of strategy describes strategies’ process can be prescriptive...
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...Porter’s Diamond Framework a new theory that explains the international competitiveness of countries? A.J. Smit ABSTRACT The focus of this article is to clarify the meaning of international competitiveness at the country level within in the context of Porter’s (1990a) thesis that countries, like companies, compete in international markets for their fair share of the world markets. At a country level, there are two schools of thought on country competitiveness: the economic school, which rejects Porter’s notion of country competitiveness, and the management school, which supports the notion of competitiveness at a country level. This article reviews and contrasts the theories pertaining to these two schools of thought with specific reference to trade theories and the ‘theory’ of the competitive advantage of nations originally advanced by Porter (1990a, 1997a, 1998b, 1998c, 2000). Although Porter’s Diamond Framework has been extensively discussed in the management literature, its actual contribution to the body of knowledge in the economic and management literature has never been clarified. The purpose of this article is to explain why Porter’s Diamond Framework is not a new theory that explains the competitiveness of countries but rather a framework that enhances our understanding of the international competitiveness of firms. Key words: Porter, Diamond Framework, international competition, competitiveness of countries, international business, national competitive advantage, country...
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...MGMT 481 Chapter 1 Review Questions 1-4,8 1. What are strategic competitiveness, strategy, competitive advantage, above-average returns, and the strategic management process? a. Strategic competitiveness- is achieved when a firm successfully formulates and implements a value-creating strategy. b. Strategy- is a integrated and coordinated set of commitments and actions designed to exploit core competencies and gain a competitive advantage. c. Competitive advantage- is when a firm implements a strategy that creates superior value for customers and competitors are unable to duplicate or find too costly to try to imitate. d. Above-average returns- are returns in excess of what the investor expects to earn from other investments with similar amount of risk. e. Strategic management process- is the full set of commitment, decisions, and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above average returns. 2. What are the characteristics of the current competitive landscape? What two factors are the primary drivers of this landscape? f. The current competitive landscape characteristics are that the markets are always changing and also noteworthy. Managers must adopt a new way of thinking to earn above-average returns. g. The two factors that drive the current competitive landscape are the globalization of industries and significant technological changes. 3. According to the I/O model, what should...
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...Week One: Strategic Business Continuity and Internal Risk Assessment Details Due Points Objectives 1.1 Identify key firm capabilities. 1.2 Describe the components of sustainable competitive advantage. 1.3 Analyze the influence of the organization on strategic business continuity. Readings Read Ch. 3 of Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, Concepts and Case. Participation Participate in class discussion. All Days 1 Discussion Questions Respond to three discussion questions. Days 3, 4, 5 3 Weekly Summary Write a 300-350 word summary of how this week’s material relates to you professionally and to organization. Post to Weekly Summary Thread. Day 7 1 Learning Team Instructions Create the Learning Team Charter. Select one of the following Virtual Organizations to use throughout the course for strategic plan development: • Riordan Manufacturing • Huffman Trucking • McBride Financial Services Day 7 Individual Internal Risk Assessment Resource: University Library’s Datamonitor 360 Access the University Library’s Datamonitor 360 and look up one of the following companies: • Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. • Jet Blue Airways Corporation • Hewlett-Packard Company • The Home Depot Prepare a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper identifying the key capabilities of your selected company. • Discuss the firm’s strengths and weaknesses in marketing, human resources, management, research...
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