Strategy Planning

When manipulating a business’s strategy, it is important to focus on the external factors in the environment. An external analysis is where a business conducts environmental scanning that present a company with the key external forces influencing the organization. The facets of external forces examined are the business environment, remote environment, or the competitive environment. A business environment is all of the external factors in the general environment that a firm cannot control, but can affect their strategy. The remote environment is the forces that affect most firms. Lastly, a competitive environment is the firm’s specific industry and its entirety. The external analysis is pertinent to a company called Dick’s Drive- In; without it, Dick’s would not be a thriving popular business today.

Processual approach: Strategy is produced in an incremental fashion, as a 'pattern in a stream of decisions'. Fuzzy approach: Companies sometimes adopt an incremental approach to change. What's different between these two approach?

Of all the Athenian leaders during the time of the Sicily invasion, Nicias possessed the clearest vision and a demonstrated ability to think

Strategic planning can dictate the success of any organization if properly planned as well as the failure of an organization if not implemented as planned. Strategic planning is all about making choices. It is a process designed to support leaders in being intentional about their goals and methods. Simply stated, strategic planning is a management tool, and like any management tool, it is used for one purpose only—to help an organization do a better job. This portion of the strategic plan will explain why an

In the diversity Australian environment, business finds that itself experiences a rapidly change and the awareness of putting environmental factors into management is becoming necessary. Thus, for Coles supermarket, when planning strategically, it is important to take the interaction of organization and it environment into management. In so doing, long- term planning becomes geared toward future events and it brings planning more systematic and integrated (Gideon Nieman, Alf Bennett, 2006, pp.27). The business environment includes all the internal and external variables which exert affect on the operation of the business. In addition, the management cannot be carried out effectively and efficiently without taking external factor into consideration. And the internal environment, on another hand, which encompass many areas such as the strategy, business function, management task, setting goals, resource abilities and expectations of interest group must be taken into account.

Debenhams is a British multinational company which was founded in the 18th century. It commenced its retailing activity with as a single store in London. If we trace the history of Debenhams, we will find out that the store was established by William Clark in 1778. Throughout the years, several people started investing in the business which made it end any family member involvement and the business became a public company in 1928. By 1950, Debenhams became the largest store in the UK, owning 84 other companies and about 110 stores. The owners and investors of the company had an aim to internationalize the company and they achieved their target in 1997 when the first international franchise store opened in Bahrain. Since then, Debenhams has been showing a rapid growth in all the dimensions of the organization (Debenhams, 2015) . This document is going to analyze the business’s success and identify its key factors helping it to achieve such a high position.

To identify multiple approaches to solve a problem and to skillfully convert relevant information to later on contribute to deeper understanding are two goals for myself to acquire as a future music teacher. In the Problem Solving Rubric, the milestone for Identifying Strategies is to “identify multiple approaches for solving the problem that apply within a specific context.” This skill is important to have, especially as an educator. All students don’t learn the same way, and each have their own tempo on how they learn and absorb information. Having the ability to identify problems in multiple ways can add to my flexibility as a teacher; knowing how to present knowledge to another student in a different way when a first strategy wasn’t successful.

The purpose of this Case Study Analysis is to implement the knowledge that was gained during the course MBA 555 Business strategy. In the first part of the analysis will be described the history of the company, its products, the key success factors and the changes that were

Debenhams plc is a general retailer which operates its business in the UK market and is also seeking to realise a further global market expansion. This report will mainly focus on the performance, financial position and the liquidity of Debenhams plc in 2014 and will compare with that of the previous year. A competitor in the same industry, Marks& Spencer, is chosen to make a comparison as well. The report in mainly focused on how Debenhams operated in the UK sector which includes sales from Debenhams stores in UK and online sales delivered to UK addresses. Debenhams faced challenges in 2014; the outcome for the first half was disappointing due to inappropriate sales target was set and the external factors such as market environment, as the whole retail industry has still influenced by the recession. Marks & Spencer is the competitor company which has been chosen to compare and measure Debenhams outcome in 2014.

The strategic planning is considered as a management tool that is remarkable factor in many organizations (Abdallah, 2013, n.d.). It is only used for single idea with nay management tool i.e. to support organizational associated to do better job. It is usually concerned to regulate the direction of an organization in response to altering environment, ensure the members working toward the similar goals, and to focus on organizational energies to measure activities (McBain, et al., 2012, n.d.). However, strategic planning is well organized effort of an organization to make its basic actions and decision that guide and create what an organization, why it does, and what it does in future. It is also defined as it is an ability of the manager to accomplish the planned goals of an organization along with management quality. Nowadays, individual development is necessary aspect because it is a planning procedure by the help of which the managers gain knowledge and leadership skills to accomplish long term goals of an organization (Lowe, et al., 2012, p.1021). The researcher of this report has chosen the Tesco organization which one of the world’s largest retailer sector in current days. It is employing more than 326,000 people, functioning around 2,318 stores, and one of the major food retailer companies. It is also running Tesco.com website to provide online services for their customers. Its major market was estimated in the UK where it is operating four banners of

As globalization increases rapidly, for a company of every size, it will be important to create a

The world offers significant business opportunities for every company, however, opportunities are accompanied by significant challenges for managers. Managing global operations across diverse cultures and markets represents a big challenge and opportunity for companies. To compete in the global market and be successful, companies must learn the strategies, policies, norms and technology necessary to conduct international business. The opportunities for global expansion are numerous, and attaining success is a matter of developing the right strategy to win local markets and its consumers.

In recent years, there is no denying the fact that the environment becomes unstable for many organizations today, as the organization striving to adopt this fact and adapt this situation. The reason of this phenomenon is external stakeholders affect, which including two essential factors are general and task environment, for example, economic, technological and sociocultural, it leads to the environment creates uncertainty to managers or organization (Kinicki et al. 2015, p75-79). “Organizations operate in an environment and are dependent on it for the procurement of inputs and the sale of outputs” (Eppink, 1978). It is necessary that mangers should establish a suitable appropriation when organization environmental change for their survival. In order to make business less vulnerable to organization environment change, planning is a process of make plan and helps organization face different circumstances. There is a long-running debate as to whether the managerial plans are often redundant when the environment change so quickly under the organization operates. As far as I am concerned, I completely agree with the managerial plan is not useless as soon as they made when the organisations environment changes so quickly. Plan helps organization adapt the new requirements of environmental changes. Due to the planning process, planning can increase the capacity of the whole organization which is decrease the vulnerability that brings to organization. However, with the organization

An analysis of the external environment includes the factors in a business’s external environment about a business's industry, competition, and political and social environments, and affects the firm’s strategy (Aaker, 2001).

Organizations successful at strategy implementation effectively manage six key supporting factors :     1.  Action Planning