Strategic Management
This company used disruptive technological innovation to disrupt the video rental industry.
What is Netflix?
This fast food company was a first mover in the drive -up food service industry.
What is McDonald's?
The "P" in the PESTEL Analysis stands for this.
What is political?
The 3 components of the triple bottom line strategic model.
What are people, planet, and profit?
The luxury goods family-owned company we studied in class that uses a differentiation strategy.
What is Gucci?
The ultimate objective of the strategic management process
What is to gain a competitive advantage?
What is a Blue Ocean strategy?
Describes an organization's purpose and reason for being.
What is a mission statement?
Within the VRIO framework, valuable resources and capabilities are also known as what.
What are strengths?
The low-cost provider company that uses backward vertical integration and has strong supplier relationships.
What is Walmart?
A business' plan for how it will make money.
What is a business model?
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What company was our beginning of the guest speaker, Rob Steidle from?
Cencora or AmeriSourceBergan
Two broad approaches/generic strategies companies use to create a competitive advantage.
What are low cost and differentiation?
When Sears and Kmart, two retail firms of relatively equal size in the United States, agreed to combine their assets, this was an example of what?
The company case study dealing with human capital strategy.
What is Safelite?
A combination of decisions, actions, and resource allocation that positions an organization in its industry or market.
What is Business Strategy?
This bank had an alignment issue with its employee incentive strategy, causing employees to illegally "game" the incentive program, leading to firings and lawsuits for the company.
What is Wells Fargo?
This allows companies to assess 2 internal and 2 external components tied to their overall strategy.
What is a SWOT analysis?
This type of strategy allows a company to streamline its operations by taking direct ownership of various stages in the production process rather than relying on external contractors or suppliers.
What is vertical integration?
The telecommunications company that merged with one of its competitors.
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What is British Satellite/British Sky Broadcasting?
An international strategy of thinking local, and acting global.
What is a transnational strategy?
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During class we created a large measurement map with post-it-notes, linking human capital investments to company strategic outcomes. This is the name of the measures that are not easily monetizable but can help predict future business outcomes.
What are leading indicators?
A tool to monitor and implement a company's strategic plan and includes the following components: Financial, Customer, Learning & Growth, and Internal. You did a group project using this tool for your coffee companies.
What is the balanced scorecard?
This analysis model involves customers, competitors, complementors, and suppliers.
What is value net analysis?
This company in our case study used a FREEMIUM business model to make money.
What is Spotify?