THEORY OF BUILDING BUSINESS STRATEGY FOR ENTERPRISE

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Chapter 2 Operations strategy: Defining how firms compete, after studying this chapter you will be able to: Introduce the concept of operations strategy and its various components, and show how it relates to the overall business strategy of the firm; illustrate how operations strategy pertains to ad[r]

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scenario planning, 27–28“school of hard knocks,” 46scouts, 61S-curves, 12–13, 15–16sensing, 3396 indexserendipity, 11serving, 347Ps, 69shareholders, 23–24“small conversations,” 46,47sourcing, 34spirit, 35–39, 50“spray and pray” strategies,28stakeholders, 23, 29–31, 53status quo, creating diss[r]

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subject:1. The outside-in school. This lot believes that an organization is a “prisonerof its environment,” and can do only what the world around it allows. Thetask of managers is to create the best possible fit between their organiza-tion’s internal strengths and weaknesses and whatever exte[r]

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processes.• Risk Assessment – Risks are analyzed, considering likelihood and impact, as a basis for determining how they should be managed. Risks are assessed on an inherent and a residual basis.• Risk Response – Management selects risk responses – avoiding, accepting, reducing, or sharing ri[r]

entirely different set of questions, but these too have nothing to dowith “high finance.” Why have so many great companies becomerelatively unprofitable even during many years of general prosper-ity? What is the advantage of doing more than $21⁄2 billion of busi-ness if t[r]

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