Saturday, 7 December 2013

FINAL WEEK

Assalamualaikum and hye readers. Final week gonna be the busiest week of the whole semester. Lots of presentation and submission needs to be finish.



so.... wish me luck!


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Last but not least...


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chapter 10: BUILDING AN ORGANIZATION CAPABLE OF GOOD STRATEGY EXECUTION: PEOPLE, CAPABILITIES, AND STRUCTURE

Hye girls! Guess what this chapter will be? haha. You can read the topic. BUILDING AN ORGANIZATION CAPABLE OF GOOD STRATEGY EXECUTION: PEOPLE, CAPABILITIES, AND STRUCTURE.
A high turnover rate can be very costly to a business. So how do you prevent your business from being a revolving door? How do you hire and retain capable employees? An employer needs an effective retention strategy in order to combat the costly turnover cycle. We are going consider the following three ways that employers can retain their employees:
RECRUITING, TRAINING, AND RETAINING CAPABLE EMPLOYEES

Okay, hope you understand and enjoy. This topic was so easy to learn. is it?
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I need sleep. See you soon guys. xoxo

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

chapter 8: CORPORATE STRATEGY: DIVERSIFICATION AND THE MULTIBUSINESS COMPANY

It's already chapter 8 girls. How time flies~~ Anyway what is your opinion about corporate strategy? Do you have any idea in mind? Nahhh let me tell you pretty~~
First of all, for this chapter we must Understand when and how business diversification can enhance shareholder value. Yes you know it. Of course you do.

WHAT DOES CRAFTING A DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGY ENTAIL?

SAMSUNG is one of the diversified company in the world.


  Creating added value for shareholders via diversification requires building a multibusiness company where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts—an outcome known as synergy.
Okay, that all for this chapter. Have a nice day!

Sunday, 17 November 2013

chapter 7: STRATEGIES FOR COMPETING IN INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

HELLO HELLO HELLO HYE readersssssssssssss! See you again in this entry. So how was your iman today? Hopefully good! By the way, in this entry we will learn about? Hihi. STRATEGIES FOR COMPETING IN INTERNATIONAL MARKETS. so yeeayyyyyy! Smile girls come on!
see there! you smile. Hehe

WHY COMPETING ACROSS NATIONAL BORDERS MAKES STRATEGY-MAKING MORE COMPLEX
WHY? why why whyyyyyyyyyyy?



THE DIAMOND FRAMEWORK
  Answers important questions about competing on an international basis by:
Predicting where new foreign entrants are likely to come from and their strengths.
Highlighting foreign market opportunities where rivals are weakest.
Identifying the location-based advantages of conducting certain value chain activities of the firm in a particular country.
As a conclusion:
   Profitability in developing markets rarely comes quickly or easily—new entrants have to adapt their business models to local conditions and be patient in earning a profit.



Tuesday, 12 November 2013

chapter 6: STRENGTHENING A COMPANY’S COMPETITIVE POSITION: STRATEGIC MOVES, TIMING, AND SCOPE OF OPERATIONS

In this topic we learn about blue ocean strategic. So smile girls!


 A blue-ocean strategy offers growth in revenues and profits by discovering or inventing new industry segments that create altogether new demand.


Examples of blue ocean strategy?

You also can search on youtube if you want further information about BLUE OCEAN strategies. Good Luck!



chapter 5: THE FIVE GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES: WHICH ONE TO EMPLOY?

Assalamualaikum and a very good day to all of you girls! Lately i feel stress a bit maybe because for few weeks i didnt go back to my hometown. I miss my family so much. Okay back to the topic. This entry we will explore about THE FIVE GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES: WHICH ONE TO EMPLOY?. Our learning objective for this chapter is to understand what distinguishes each of the five generic strategies and why some of these strategies work better in certain kinds of industry and competitive conditions than in others.


WHY DO STRATEGIES DIFFER?
THE FIVE GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES



For your information, AIRASIA used the low-cost strategy to make their company success. Really? Yes it's true!
NOW EVERYONE CAN FLY!


Friday, 11 October 2013

chapter 4: EVALUATING A COMPANY’S RESOURCES, CAPABILITIES, AND COMPETITIVENESS

Hye readers! Are you waiting for my next entry? hehe. In this entry I will share to you about EVALUATING A COMPANY’S RESOURCES, CAPABILITIES, AND COMPETITIVENESS. In this chapter, we can Learn how to assess how well a company’s strategy is working. We can also understand why a company’s resources and capabilities are central to its strategic approach and how to evaluate their potential for giving the company a competitive edge over rivals.


QUESTION 1: HOW WELL IS THE FIRM’S PRESENT STRATEGY WORKING?

  Best indicators of a well-conceived,
well-executed strategy:
The firm is achieving its stated financial and strategic objectives.
The firm is an above-average industry performer.


QUESTION 2: WHAT ARE THE FIRM’S COMPETITIVELY IMPORTANT RESOURCES AND CAPABILITIES?
A resource is a competitive asset that is owned or controlled by a firm
A capability or competence is the capacity of a firm to perform and internal activity competently through deployment of a firm’s resources.
A firm’s resources and capabilities represent its competitive assets and are big determinants of its competitiveness and ability
to succeed in
the marketplace.

QUESTION 3: IS THE COMPANY ABLE TO SEIZE MARKET OPPORTUNITIES AND NULLIFY EXTERNAL THREATS?

For this part, we can determine it by using SWOT ANALYSIS. Why? Here is the reasons why:
Is a powerful tool for sizing up a firm’s:
vInternal strengths (the basis for strategy)
vInternal weaknesses (deficient capabilities)
vMarket opportunities (strategic objectives)
vExternal threats (strategic defenses)



That's all i can share to you about this chapter. Hope you enjoy!

Monday, 7 October 2013

chapter 3: EVALUATING A COMPANY’S EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

This entry will show you about EVALUATING A COMPANY’S EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT. This topic describes about the PESTEL and the Porter's Five - Forces .


What is PESTEL? What is Porter's Five - Forces? Read further and i'll show you my dear ;)


The macro-environment encompasses the broad environmental context in which a company’s industry is situated that includes strategically relevant components over which the firm has no direct control.


 PESTEL analysis focuses on the six principal components of strategic significance in the macro-environment:
PESTEL


Porter's Five - Forces
USING THE FIVE-FORCES MODEL OF COMPETITION
step 1For each of the five forces, identify the different parties involved, and the specific factors that bring about competitive pressures.
step 2Evaluate how strong the pressures stemming from each of the five forces are (strong, moderate, or weak).
step 3Determine whether the collective strength of all five competitive forces is conducive to earning attractive profits in the industry.

Thus, now i can see how to evaluate a company's external environment. I'm pretty sure that you also can understand it. I can feel that this subject started to attract me. Many interesting things i learnt from it. Okay i feel sleepy right now. See you soon. goodnight love!



Sunday, 29 September 2013

chapter 2: THE BUSINESS MISSION AND VISION

WHAT IS YOUR MISSION AND VISION? 



 A vision statement should answer the basic question, “What do we want to become?”. The vision statement should be short, preferably one sentence, and as many managers as possible should have input into developing the statement.

Mission statement 
9a declaration of an organization’s “reason for being.”
9answers the pivotal question “What is our business?
9essential for effectively establishing objectives and formulating strategies.
9reveals what an organization wants to be and whom it wants to serve
9Also called a creed statement, a statement of purpose, a statement of philosophy, a statement of beliefs, and a statement of business principles



Shared vision creates a commonality of interests that can lift workers out of the monotony of daily work and put them into a new world of opportunity and challenge.

Mission Statement Components:
  1. Customers
  2. Products or services
  3. Markets
  4. Technology
  5. Concern for survival, growth, and profitability
  6. Philosophy
  7. Self-concept
  8. Concern for public image
  9. Concern for employees


After finished this chapter, we may know what is our mission and vision in life. Hope you enjoy reading this entry. Till then. may your life full of happiness ;)

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

chapter 1: THE NATURE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Hye readers! this is my first entry. So in this entry i'm gonna share to all of you about what is strategic management. Have you ever heard about it? First thing first, we must know what is the definition of strategic management.
vStrategic management

9the art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives.


Sometimes the term strategic management is used to refer to strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, with strategic planning referring only to strategy formulation.

Strategy formulation 9includes developing a vision and mission, identifying an organization’s external opportunities and threats, determining internal strengths and weaknesses, establishing long-term objectives, generating alternative strategies, and choosing particular strategies to pursue.

Strategy implementation 9requires a firm to establish annual objectives, devise policies, motivate employees, and allocate resources so that formulated strategies can be executed. often called the action stage.

Strategy evaluation9reviewing external and internal factors that are the bases for current strategies, measuring performance, and taking corrective actions.

That all from chapter 1. Stay tuned ;)




Sunday, 22 September 2013

FIRST CLASS

ASSALAMUALAIKUM ;)

Hye readers. This is my first week entering strategic management lecture. Can you imagine what we do in first week. The picture above describe everything. Miss Ummi who is my lecturer for this subject asked the hall to build a tower using old newspaper in 10 minutes. 10 minutes ended. Miss Ummi asked all of the groups to place their tower in front of the class and she'll judge. 

What we can take from the activity was a good organization comes from strong cooperation. It shows the magic of ukhuwwah among the workers. Till then. See you soon!