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
Key words:

•   Strategic management
•   Mission
•   Goals & objectives
•   Competitive advantage
•   SWOT
Overview:


•   Why competitive advantage
•   Create a strategic plan
•   Meaningful mission statement
•   Company’s SWOT
•   Meaningful goals and objectives
•   Strategic alternatives
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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.
Competitive Advantages:


             Aggregation of
            factors that sets a
            company apart from
            its competitors and
            gives it a unique
            position in the
            market.
Plan            Unique Image


       Create




                Potential Customers
Small business ‘s Strategic
 management Procedure

  • Use a short planning
  • Be informal
  • Encourage the participation of
    employees
  • Do not begin with setting
    objectives
  • Focus on strategic thinking
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
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
1. Develop a clear vision …


 •   Vision
 •   Mission
 •   Elements of a mission statement
 •   To write a powerful mission
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.
Vision

Respect for the
 individual and
innovation to
creating satisfied
                          Marketing the world
 customers                 a better place

Entrepreneurs:
mission


• What business am I in?
• Why we are here?
  Where we are going?
• Why an organization is, why it exists?
Elements of a Mission
     Statement
• Basic beliefs and values
• Target customers
• Basic products and
  services
• Better satisfy
• Constitutes value
• Competitive advantages
• Market segments
• Key stakeholders
To write a powerful 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
2. Define the firm’s core
     competencies …


 • Core competencies
 • Creating your companies’ Core
   competencies
 • Market segmentation
 • Positioning
Core competencies

A unique set of capabilities that
a company develops in key
operational areas that allow it to
vault past competitors.

  small company     large company
Creating your companies’
   Core competencies
  • Customers
  • Customers’
    characteristics
  • Buying our goods
  • Increase or
    decrease purchases
  • Competitors
Market segmentation
Carving up the mass
market into smaller,
more homogeneous
units and then
attacking each
segment with a
specific marking
strategy.
Positioning



Influencing customers’
perceptions to create the
desired image for the business
and its goods and services.
3. Assess the company’s
strengths and weaknesses

  • Strengths

  • Weaknesses
4. Investigate environment
opportunities and threats


    • Opportunities

    • Threats
5. Identify the key factors for
    success in the business

   Key success factors:

   •   Market share
   •   Price competitiveness
   •   Financial strength
   •   Product quality
   •   Customer loyalty
6. Analyze the competition


   • Competitor analysis

   • Competitive profile matrix
Competitor analysis

Update your knowledge of competitors:

•   Major competitors
•   Cost structure
•   New competitors
•   Competitors’ key strategies
•   Strengths and weaknesses
•   Customers view
Competitor analysis

Update your knowledge of competitors
 (using-low cost methods):

•   Read trade publications
•   Ask customers & suppliers
•   Talk to employees
•   Attend trade shows
•   Buy their products
•   WWW
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.
7. Create company goals and
         objectives


   • Targets importance
   • Goals
   • Objectives
Targets importance


that dependsdepends ….
       that ….           Which way …
                         which way …
Goals

• The broad, long range attributes that a
  business seeks to accomplish; they tend
  to be general and sometimes even
  abstract.
Objectives


•   Specific
•   Measurable
•   Attainable
•   Realistic & Challenging
•   Timely
•   Written down
8. Formulate strategic options

    • Strategy
    • Competitive strategy:

             » Cost leadership
             » Differentiation
             » Focus
Strategy


• A road map of the tactics and
  actions an entrepreneur draws up to
  fulfill the firm’s mission, goals, and
  objectives.
Cost leadership

• A strategy in which a company strives
  to be the lowest-cost producer relative
  to its competitors in the industry.
Differentiation

A strategy in which a company
seeks to build customer loyalty by
positioning its goods or services in
a unique or different fashion.
Focus


A strategy in which 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.
9. Translate strategic plan into
          action plans

   •   Purpose
   •   Scope
   •   Contribution
   •   Resource requirement
   •   Timing
10. Establish accurate controls



      Planning without control has little
      operational value           a planning
      program requires a practical control
      process
Conclusion

•   Why competitive advantage
•   Create a strategic plan
•   Meaningful mission statement
•   Company’s SWOT
•   Meaningful goals and objectives
•   Strategic alternatives
Thanks for your
   attention

Strategic management & entrepreneurship[ppt]

  • 1.
    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
  • 2.
    Key words: • Strategic management • Mission • Goals & objectives • Competitive advantage • SWOT
  • 3.
    Overview: • Why competitive advantage • Create a strategic plan • Meaningful mission statement • Company’s SWOT • Meaningful goals and objectives • Strategic alternatives
  • 4.
  • 5.
    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.
  • 7.
    Plan Unique Image Create Potential Customers
  • 8.
    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
  • 17.
    2. Define thefirm’s core competencies … • Core competencies • Creating your companies’ Core competencies • Market segmentation • Positioning
  • 18.
    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
  • 19.
    Creating your companies’ Core competencies • Customers • Customers’ characteristics • Buying our goods • Increase or decrease purchases • Competitors
  • 20.
    Market segmentation Carving upthe mass market into smaller, more homogeneous units and then attacking each segment with a specific marking strategy.
  • 21.
    Positioning Influencing customers’ perceptions tocreate the desired image for the business and its goods and services.
  • 22.
    3. Assess thecompany’s strengths and weaknesses • Strengths • Weaknesses
  • 23.
    4. Investigate environment opportunitiesand threats • Opportunities • Threats
  • 24.
    5. Identify thekey factors for success in the business Key success factors: • Market share • Price competitiveness • Financial strength • Product quality • Customer loyalty
  • 25.
    6. Analyze thecompetition • Competitor analysis • Competitive profile matrix
  • 26.
    Competitor analysis Update yourknowledge of competitors: • Major competitors • Cost structure • New competitors • Competitors’ key strategies • Strengths and weaknesses • Customers view
  • 27.
    Competitor analysis Update yourknowledge of competitors (using-low cost methods): • Read trade publications • Ask customers & suppliers • Talk to employees • Attend trade shows • Buy their products • WWW
  • 28.
    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.
  • 29.
    7. Create companygoals and objectives • Targets importance • Goals • Objectives
  • 30.
    Targets importance that dependsdepends…. that …. Which way … which way …
  • 31.
    Goals • The broad,long range attributes that a business seeks to accomplish; they tend to be general and sometimes even abstract.
  • 32.
    Objectives • Specific • Measurable • Attainable • Realistic & Challenging • Timely • Written down
  • 33.
    8. Formulate strategicoptions • Strategy • Competitive strategy: » Cost leadership » Differentiation » Focus
  • 34.
    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.
  • 38.
    9. Translate strategicplan into action plans • Purpose • Scope • Contribution • Resource requirement • Timing
  • 39.
    10. Establish accuratecontrols Planning without control has little operational value a planning program requires a practical control process
  • 40.
    Conclusion • Why competitive advantage • Create a strategic plan • Meaningful mission statement • Company’s SWOT • Meaningful goals and objectives • Strategic alternatives
  • 41.