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Segment 6

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macro environment   includes factors affecting all organizations  
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organization's environment   all forces outside the firm's abstract boundaries  
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competitive environment   includes Porter's Five Forces in an industry: buyer power, supplier power, substitutes, new entrants, and rivalry  
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strategy   organization's goals and the plans and decisions it adopts to achieve them  
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3 dynamics of the strategic management process   1) establishment of mission, value and goals, 2)work on any other boxes, any amount, any time, 3)it is a never ending process  
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efficiency & effectiveness   two indicators of it your strategy is working  
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effectiveness   extent to which the organization achieves its goals  
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how to become more effective   reach a higher number of goals or meet your #1 goal  
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efficiency   organization's outputs and inputs  
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how to become more efficient   increase outputs or decrease inputs or both  
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Icarus Paradox   effectiveness can be dangerous: a company is never more vulnerable to complacency than when its at the height of its success  
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Specific, Measurable, Acceptable, Realistic & Challenging, Timed   goals are SMART  
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match your internal strengths and external opportunities and avoid internal weakness and external threat   the SWOT tool  
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environmental scanning   searching out information that is unavailable to most people and sorting through that information to interpret what is important and what is not  
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competitive intelligence   information necessary to decide how best to manage in the competitive environment they have identified (using environmental scanning)  
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scenario development   helps managers develop contingency plans for what they might do given different outcomes  
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forecasting   method for predicting how variables will change in the future  
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benchmarking   identifying the best-in-class performance by a company in a given area, say, product development or customer service, and then comparing your process to others  
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buffering   creating supplies of excess resources in case of unpredictable needs  
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smoothing   leveling normal fluctuations at the boundaries of the environment  
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competitive aggression   exploiting a distinctive competence or improving internal efficiency for competitive advantage (agressive pricing, comparative advantage)  
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competitive pacification   independent action to improve relations with competitors  
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public relations   establishing and maintaining favorable images in the minds of those making up the environment  
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voluntary action   vountary commitment to various interest groups, causes, and social problems  
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political action   efforts to influence elected representatives to create a more favorable business environment or limit competition  
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cooperative action   strategies used by two or more organizations working together to manage the external environment  
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contraction   negotiation of an agreemnet between the organization and another group to exchange goods, services, information, patents, and so on  
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cooptation   absorbing new elements into the organization's leadership structure to avert threats to its stability or existence  
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coalition   two or more groups act jointly with respect to some set of issues for some period of time  
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strategic maneuvering   an organization's conscious efforts to change the boundaries of its task environment (companies change the environment they are in)  
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domain selection   entering a new market or industry with an existing expertise  
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diversification   a firm's investment in a different product, business, or geographic area (Apple iPod)  
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merger/acquisition   two or more firms combine, or one firm buys another to form a single company  
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divestiture   a firm selling one or more businesses  
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corporate strategy   identifies the set of businesses, markets, or industries in which the organization competes and the distribtuion of resources among those businesses  
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concentration strategy   focuses on a single business competing in a single industry; used to gain entry into an industry when industry growth is good, or when the company has a narrow range of competencies  
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vertical integration strategy   acquisition or development of new businesses that produce parts or components of the organization's product  
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concentric diversification   moving into new businesses that are related to the company's original core business  
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conglomerate diversification   expansion into unrelated businesses  
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