Strategy Evaluation
A thumbs up or thumbs down evaluation?
What is summative evaluation?
The foundation for global strategy success.
What are good core competencies at home?
A trojan horse.
What is smooth implementation?
The main cause of GM's early implementation problems.
What was knowledge (of batteries)?
Me wanting to recruit Spanish students during my trip to Madrid, but speaking muy poco español.
What is cultural risk?
Evaluations that are done for political or public relations reasons and are not acted upon.
What are pseudo-evaluations?
The war in Ukraine.
What is a political risk?
Who are informal implementers or intermediaries?
Opening seven Thuma stores by the end of 2027 is an example of this part of implementation planning.
What is an outcome goal?
The way Mercedes-Benz entered the U.S. market to avoid tariffs.
What is develop a new subsidiary?
These evaluators are expensieve but they are regarded as unbiased.
Who are consultants?
The benefit of global strategy Bad Bunny is acheiving by doing a European tour this summer.
What is fulfilling demand?
Using motivation and data to get others to buy into the need for new strategy.
What is mobilization?
The main reason for GM's EV implementation failures.
What was a lack of resources (battery materials)?
The benefit of global strategy adidas gains by making its shoes in Indonesia.
What is location advantage?
The criteria of quality evaluation not evident in an evaluation that is highly technical, full of jargon, and lacks supporting data.
What is usefulness?
Most companies begin their global strategies in this way.
What is in a single market?
Signs of this phase are recognition from outsiders and teaching to new members.
What is institutionalization of strategy?
Three flows of globalization within the Eberhardt School of Business.
What are people, knowledge, and capital? (services?)
The global strategy that provides companies with the most control.
What is transnational?
If Apple was evaluating its current strategy, this might be its response.
What is termination and develop a new strategy?
This global strategy is expensive because it must adapt for each market making it hard to achieve economies of scale.
What is multi-domestic?
Riding out the plateaus and getting worse before getting better exemplifies this aspect of implementation.
What is surrendering to the process?
Comparied to domestic mergers, international alliances or acquisitions have a much harder time achieving...
What is synergy?
The type of wine or the winery that produces my favorite exported wine.
What is Harney Lane Albarino?