Development and Social Change

‘Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long term, which achieves advantage in a changing environment through it’

Strategy is plan action designed to achieve long term and overall goals. Strategy may also be defined as method or plan to bring about the desired future or solution to a problem.

Strategy refers to the plan or action taken to achieve organizational goals. When Ellen took over Tufts-NEMC, the hospital was struggling with payroll and scale. Ellen had to focus on meeting payroll, a short-term strategy, and could not focus entirely on the longer term. She took some immediate measures to help cut cost

Strategy is defined as a plan of action designed to achieve a major objective. This is the overall operations to achieve a goal. During war the military has tactics which come from the art of planning. A strategy is the guide for the individual, business, or organization to achieve the objective at hand. An individual should map out and meditate in advance to reduce the chance of failing. So, for FedEx, it could be to map out routes to make sure delivery personal does not overlap each other. A strategy is a compass that guides a person along to make sure they achieve their objective.

Clean water and sanitation is the goal 6 of Sustainable Develop Goal, which is not only aimed to provide the clean water and sanitation for everyone, it is also for have high quality and sustainability of water resources. This goal targets to achieve the equitable and affordable of safe water for all by 2030, and also to complete the sanitation, provide better condition and end the open defecation, particularly pay attention to the needs of women and girls for better health. The goal 6 also includes to reduces the chemical polluted of the water, increasing recycling and safe using of water, ‘protect and restore the ecosystems, and increase using safely managed sanitation services’. Mostly, people thought they can take access to clean, safety

Clean Water and Sanitation - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all Targets.

Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets. A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a specific goal or series of goals within an organizational framework.

This paper begins with a summary view to develop the concept of strategy and why its implementation is difficult. The following sections then cover the core discussion of this paper to support the aforementioned

There is a wide variety of factors that influence the formulation and the execution and later the outcomes of strategies. The strategist must weigh those factors and understand the strategic choices that faces the decision makers. Some of these factors are tangible like geography and instrument of national power (diplomacy, military, economy, and information) because they have a definite, objective existence. Others like culture, ideology and history are intangible. The interplay of these factors in a given polity will predominate the way strategy is formulated and executed.

On 28 July 2010 the human right to water was clearly accepted by the United Nations General Assembly. Clean drinking water are essential to the realization of all human rights were also been acknowledged (United Nations, 2014). The human right to water include five factors which are sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable (United Nations, 2014). However, in these five factors, sufficiency and safety are the top two serious issues which will be discussed in this report. Sufficiency means the water supply for a person, between 50 and 100 liters, must be enough and continuous (United Nations, 2014). And the water supply must meet the world Health Organization Guidelines for drinking water quality. This essay will discuss two major problems in two different countries which are water scarcity in Ethiopia and water sanitation in Kenya.

Strategy is about which product or services should be produced and offered to which markets and which the customer needs and wants are met whilst achieving the objectives of the organization while making a profit – how each business aim to achieve its mission within its selected area of activity.

Henry Mintzberg has defined the definition of strategies in academic ways and in practice in 1988. After examing the strategic process, he found that it was more unpredictable than early thoughts. Thus, it couldn’t refer to one process that be called strategic planning. Instead of that, he concludes the following five types :(1)Strategy as plan – a directed course of action to achieve an intended set of goals; similar to the strategic planning concept;(2)Strategy as pattern – a consistent pattern of past behavior, with a strategy realized over time rather than planned or intended. Where the realized pattern was different from the intent, he referred to the strategy

The severe water crisis in Africa is one of the World’s leading problems. Kenya and South Africa have always had limited water resources, and now with their population continuing to grow, an increase in the demand for water is needed now more than ever before. Water plays a crucial role in continuing to help the continent of Africa develop and grow. This lack of water affects food security, impoverished people, and their health.

Strategy is well explained as the effective use of well laid out plans to achieve success. It is no less of spectacle to attribute strategy to individual achievement, achievement from a company, a country or at the very least a non – financial institute to achieve strategic success.

Johnson, Wittington, Scholes, Angwin and Regnér (2014, p. 3) defines strategy as ‘the long-term direction of an organisation’.