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Management - Ch. 4 Strategical Planning

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SWOT Analysis   A comparison of strength, weakness, opportunities, and treats that helps executives formulate strategy.  
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Corporate Strategy   The set of businesses, markets, or industries in which an organization competes and the distribution of resources among those entities.  
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Concentration   A strategy employed for an organization that operates a single business and competes in a single industry.  
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Vertical Integration   The acquisition or development of new business that produce parts or components of the organizations product.  
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Concentric Diversification   A strategy used to add new businesses that produce related products or are involved in related markets and activities.  
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Business Strategy   The major actions by which an organization competes in a particular industry or market.  
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Low-cost Strategy   A strategy an organization uses to build competitive advantage by being efficient and offering a standard, no-frills product.  
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Strategic Planning   A set of procedures for making decisions about the organization's long-term goals and strategies.  
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Strategic Goals   Major targets or end results relating to the organization's long-term survival, value, and growth.  
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Uncertainty   The state that exists when decision makers have insufficient information.  
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State Uncertainty   Uncertainties related to the enviroment itself *enviroment unpredictable.  
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Goal   A target or end that management desires to reach.  
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Plans   The actions or means managers intend to use to achieve organizational goals.  
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Situational Analysis   A process planners use, within time and resource constraints, to gather, interpret, and summarize all information relevant to the planning issue under consideration.  
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Scenario   A narrative that describes a particular set of future conditions.  
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Strategy   A pattern of actions and resourse allocations designed to achieve the organization's goals.  
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Tactical Planning   A set of procedures for translating broad strategic goals and plans that are relevant to a particular portion or the organizaiton, such as a functional area like marketing.  
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Operational Planning   The process of identifying the specific procedures and processes required at lower levels of the organization.  
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Strategic Management   A process that involves managers from all part of the organizaiton in the formulation and implementation of strategic goals and strategies.  
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Stakeholders   Groups and indviduals who affect and are affected by the achievement of the organization's mission, goals, and strategies.  
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Resources   Imputs to a system that can enhance performance.  
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Core Competence   A unique skill and/or knowledge an organization possesses that gives it an edge over competitors.  
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Differentiation Strategy   A strategy an organization uses to build competitive advantage by being unique in its industy or market segment alon one or more dimensions.  
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Functional Strategies   Strategies implemented by each functional area of the organizaiton to support the organization's busines strategy.  
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Certainty   The state that exists when decision makers have accurate and comprehensive information.  
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Risk   The state that exists when the probability of success is less than 100 percent and losses may occur.  
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Maximizing   A decision realizing the best possible outcome.  
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Satisficing   Choosing an option that is acceptable, although not necessarily the best or perfect.  
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Optimizing   Achieving the best possible blance among several goals.  
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Groupthink   A phenomenon that occurs in decision making when group members avoid disagreement as they strive for consensus.  
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Prospect Theory   Overweigh the potential losses.(asymmetry)  
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Conglomerate Diversification   Used to add new business that produce unrelated products or are involved in unrelated markets and activities  
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