The document outlines the key components of strategic management for entrepreneurs and small businesses. It discusses [1] developing a mission statement, [2] defining core competencies and market segments, [3] assessing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, [4] analyzing competitors, [5] setting goals and objectives, [6] formulating strategic options like cost leadership and differentiation, [7] creating action plans, and [8] establishing controls. The overall process helps companies develop and execute a strategy to achieve a competitive advantage.
Strategic
Management &the
Entrepreneur
Essentials of Entrepreneurship &
Small Business Management
(section 2: Building the Business Plan: Beginning
Considerations)
Tomas W. Zimmerer & Norman M. Scarborough
Presented By Samin Saghafi 83/6/28
Why Strategic Management?
Entrepreneur Strategic Management
Strategic Management involves developing a game
plan to guide a company as it strives to accomplish
its mission, goals, and objectives, and to keep it on
its desired course.
6.
Competitive Advantages:
Aggregation of
factors that sets a
company apart from
its competitors and
gives it a unique
position in the
market.
Small business ‘sStrategic
management Procedure
• Use a short planning
• Be informal
• Encourage the participation of
employees
• Do not begin with setting
objectives
• Focus on strategic thinking
9.
Strategic Management
Process
1. Develop a clear vision and translate it
into a meaningful mission statement
2. Define the firm’s core competencies
and the market segment
3. Assess the company’s strengths and
weaknesses
4. Investigate environment opportunities
and threats
10.
Strategic Management
Process
5. Identify the key factors for success in
the business
6. Analyze the competition
7. Create company goals and objectives
8. Formulate strategic options
9. Translate strategic plan into action
plans
10. Establish accurate controls
11.
1. Develop aclear vision …
• Vision
• Mission
• Elements of a mission statement
• To write a powerful mission
12.
Vision
• Is based on value
• Values are like organizational DNA
• Tell people how to act
• The picture that leaps into your
mind when you close your eyes and
dreams about what you want your
organization to become.
13.
Vision
Respect for the
individual and
innovation to
creating satisfied
Marketing the world
customers a better place
Entrepreneurs:
14.
mission
• What businessam I in?
• Why we are here?
Where we are going?
• Why an organization is, why it exists?
15.
Elements of aMission
Statement
• Basic beliefs and values
• Target customers
• Basic products and
services
• Better satisfy
• Constitutes value
• Competitive advantages
• Market segments
• Key stakeholders
16.
To write apowerful mission
statement
• Keep it short
• Keep it simple
• Get everyone involved
• Keep it current
• Reflects the values
• Best effort
• Reflects a concern for the future
• Positive and upbeat
• Other company’s mission statement
• Use it
Core competencies
A uniqueset of capabilities that
a company develops in key
operational areas that allow it to
vault past competitors.
small company large company
Competitive profile matrix
A tools that allows a
business owner to
evaluate his company
against major your competitors you
competitors on the
key success factor
for that market.
Strategy
• A roadmap of the tactics and
actions an entrepreneur draws up to
fulfill the firm’s mission, goals, and
objectives.
35.
Cost leadership
• Astrategy in which a company strives
to be the lowest-cost producer relative
to its competitors in the industry.
36.
Differentiation
A strategy inwhich a company
seeks to build customer loyalty by
positioning its goods or services in
a unique or different fashion.
37.
Focus
A strategy inwhich a company selects
one (or more) segments of a market,
identifies their special needs, wants,
and interest, and offers them a good
or service designed to excel in
meeting those needs, wants, and
interest.