Friday, 29 September 2017

INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

اَلسَّلاَ مُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَا تُهُ

WHAT HAVE I LEARNED TODAY 

1.0   DEFINITION

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT


1          → What is strategic management????????
               
                    😼 Drafting, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable an organization to achieve its long-term objectives. 
          
    
            ⇒ Strategic Managment process is made up of THREE MAIN COMPONENTS:
                        😁  Strategy Formulation
                        😉  Strategy Implementation
                        😊 Stategy Evaluation                 
         
         STRATEGY
       
              👉  Refer to the action taken by manger to ensure that an organization is better off that its competitors or is able to fend off competitive actions from competitors.
      
             👉 A business strategy is based on the assumption of competition and the main purpose of the business strategy is to gain competitive advantage.
     
       PLANNING
        
              😸 Is a process of preparing ways to use resources more economically and efficiently, so that the purpose of the company is achieved
      
       
     CORPORATE PLANNING
        
             ✋ The terminology "corporate planning" is often used interchangeably with " long-term planning" and " strategic-planning"
       
            ✋Ringbakk (1969) defined it is a process of obtaining objectives and its components followed by a process of finding and evaluating various available alternatives.
      
     CORPORATE STRATEGY
         
              👌 As a gudline setting the scope where the company should be involved in and can be aligned in such a way to ensure that business objectives are met.
  
     THE STRATEGIC MANAGMENT PROCESS
          
          
   

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