Analyze, Formulate, Implement

What are all of the components involved in the AFI strategy framework?

Getting started: identifying the strategy. External and internal analysis. formulation of the business strategy. formulation of the corporate strategy. Implementation

What is included in the Framework of gaining and sustaining competitive advantage?

Strategic Management

An integrative management field that combines analysis, formulation, and implementation in the quest for competitive advantage is?

a.A diagnosis of the competitive challenge
b. A guiding policy to address the competitive advantage
c. A set of coherent actions to implement the firm's guiding policy

A good strategy consists of three elements: what are they?

Strategy

What is a set of goal-directed actions a firm takes to gain and sustain superior performance relative to competition?

Google has a competitive advantage over Facebook in digital advertising

Give an example of a company that has a competitive advantage over another company?

A firm must to provide either goods or services consumers value more highly than those of its competitors, or good/services similar to the competitors' at a lower price

How can a firm gain competitive advantage?

Competitive parity

Performance of Two or more firms at the same level is what?

Firm performance is compared to the performance of other firms in the same industry or an industry average

What is a benchmark that is used to assess competitive advantage, or disadvantage, of a firm?

20%

Approximately how much of a firm's profitability is determined by the industry the firm is in?

Grandiose statements are not strategy

What is one hallmark of what strategy is NOT?

Black Swan Event

A ________ is an unexpected and unlikely occurrence that has a significant impact on society

Stakeholders

Those that can be affected by a firm's actions are called ___?

Stakeholder Strategy

This is an integrative approach to managing a diverse set of stakeholders effectively in order to gain and sustain competitive advantage

Employees, Stockholders, or Board Members

What is an example of an internal stakeholder?

It provides a decision tool with which managers can recognize, prioritize, and address the needs of different stakeholders

What is the stakeholder impact analysis?

Power, Legitimacy, Urgency

What three stakeholder attributes must managers pay attention to?

Step 2

In what step of the stakeholder impact analysis does the firm identify interests & claims?

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

What incentivizes employees by offering them discounted shares or retirement plans?

Corporate social responsibility provides managers with a conceptual model that more completely describes a society's expectations and can guide strategic decision making more effectively.

How does framework help firms to describe their economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic obligation to society?

Economic, Legal, and Philanthropic

The pyramid of corporate social responsibility consists of 4 responsibilities, what are they?

Corporate Citizenship

The idea that firms should voluntarily give back to society is known as?

Analyze, Formulate, Implement

What are the three broad tasks that make up the AFI strategy framework?

1) Explain and predict differences in firm performance
2) Help managers to formulate and implement a strategy that can result in superior performance

What are the two main points of the AFI strategy Framework?

Analysis

What is the first step in the AFI strategy framework?

Strategic Management Process

_____ lays the foundation for sustainable competitive advantage. Strategic leaders design a process to formulate and implement strategy

Vision, Mission, Values

The three basic principles of strategic leadership are _____, ______, and _____.

Define a firm's vision, mission, and values

What is the first step in the strategic management process?

It should capture an organization's aspiration and spell out what it ultimately wants to accomplish. It pervades the organization with a sense of winning and motivates employees at all levels to aim for the same target, while leaving room for individual and team contributions.

What should a successful vision do for an organization?

Product Oriented

A _____ vision statement defines a business by describing the goods or services it produces or offers.

Organizational core values

____________ Are the ethical standards and norms that govern the behavior of individuals within a firm or organization

Face-to-face meetings

How do CEO's spend most of their days?

a.Level 1: Highly Capable Individual- Makes productive contributions through motivation, talent, knowledge, and skills.
b.Level 2: Contributing Team Member- Uses high level of individual capability to work effectively with others in order to achieve team objectives.
c.Level 3: Competent Manager- Is efficient and effective in organizing resources to accomplish stated goals and objectives. Does things right.
d.Level 4: Effective Leader- Presents compelling vision and mission to guide groups toward superior performance. Does the right things.
Level 5: Executive- Builds enduring greatness through a combination of willpower and humility

State and explain the 5 names of strategic leaders

Upper-echelons theory

What is the name of the theory where organizational outcomes including strategic choices and performance levels reflect the values of the top management team?

Strategy Formulation

_______ concerns the choice of strategy in terms of where and how to compete

Cost leadership, differentiation, value innovation

What are the 3 business strategies that can help guide a firm HOW to compete?

Corporate Strategy

What "strategy" defines the question of where to compete?

How to implement a chosen business strategy

What question does functional strategy answer?

Analysis, formulation, implementation

What are the progression steps in top down strategic planning?

Top-down strategic planning

What method of planning involves the CEO making the majority of the decisions and has everything go through their office for approval?

That we can predict the future from the past

What is the main assumption in the top-down strategic planning process?

Illusion

An _____ of control describes the tendency of managers to overestimate their ability to manage events

Emergent Strategy

What strategy describes any unplanned strategic initiative bubbling up from the bottom of the organization?

resource-allocation process (RAP)

What determines the way a firm allocates its resources and is critical in shaping their realized strategy?

Top-down strategic planning

_______ would be the most effective in a stable environment where things are slow-moving

Ethical Responsibility

______ is the corporate social responsibility that deals with doing what is right, just, and fair.

Product Oriented

A ______ vision is more likely to fail than other visions.