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Segment 6

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
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show includes factors affecting all organizations  
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show all forces outside the firm's abstract boundaries  
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show includes Porter's Five Forces in an industry: buyer power, supplier power, substitutes, new entrants, and rivalry  
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strategy   show
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3 dynamics of the strategic management process   show
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efficiency & effectiveness   show
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show extent to which the organization achieves its goals  
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show reach a higher number of goals or meet your #1 goal  
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show organization's outputs and inputs  
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show increase outputs or decrease inputs or both  
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Icarus Paradox   show
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show goals are SMART  
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match your internal strengths and external opportunities and avoid internal weakness and external threat   show
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environmental scanning   show
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competitive intelligence   show
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show helps managers develop contingency plans for what they might do given different outcomes  
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show method for predicting how variables will change in the future  
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benchmarking   show
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buffering   show
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show leveling normal fluctuations at the boundaries of the environment  
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show exploiting a distinctive competence or improving internal efficiency for competitive advantage (agressive pricing, comparative advantage)  
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competitive pacification   show
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public relations   show
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show vountary commitment to various interest groups, causes, and social problems  
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show efforts to influence elected representatives to create a more favorable business environment or limit competition  
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show strategies used by two or more organizations working together to manage the external environment  
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show negotiation of an agreemnet between the organization and another group to exchange goods, services, information, patents, and so on  
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cooptation   show
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coalition   show
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show 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   show
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show a firm's investment in a different product, business, or geographic area (Apple iPod)  
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show two or more firms combine, or one firm buys another to form a single company  
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divestiture   show
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show 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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show 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   show
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show moving into new businesses that are related to the company's original core business  
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show expansion into unrelated businesses  
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