Saturday, 7 December 2013

LECTURE 10 (3 DECEMBER 2013)

The twelve weeks of lecture..

No lecture on eleventh week of lecture. Move on to the twelve week of semester..

BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM..

Dr Ummi started this lecture with quiz personality by Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).




1-1-1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
2. http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologicaltesting/a/myers-briggs-type-indicator.htm
3. http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

CHAPTER 10

BUILDING AN ORGANIZATION CAPABLE OF GOOD STRATEGY EXECUTION : PEOPLE, CAPABILITIES, AND STRUCTURE


Strategy Execution
  1. Is operations-driven, involving management of both people and business processes.
  2. Is a job for the whole management team, not just a few senior managers.
  3. Can take years longer to develop as a real proficiency than implementing strategy.
  4. Requires a determined commitment to change, action, and performance.


Building an organization capable of good strategy execution : Where to begin

  • Assemble a strong management team and a cadre of capable employees.
  •  Renew, upgrade, and revise resources and capabilities to match chosen strategy.
  • Create an organizational structure that is strategy-supportive.
Approaches to build building competencies and capabilities
- Develop capabilities internally
- Acquire capabilities through mergers and acquisitions
- Access capabilities via collaborative partnerships

Managerial actions to develop competencies and capabilities
- Strengthen the firm's base of skills, knowledge, and intellect
- Coordinate and integrate the efforts of work groups and department

Approaches to acquiring capabilities from an external source
- Outsources the function requiring the capabilities to a key supplier or another provider.
- Collaborate with a firm that has complementary resources and capabilities.
- Engage in a collaborative partnership for the purpose of learning how the partner does things.

Training is important in :
  1. Executing a strategy that requires different skills, competitive capabilities, and operating methods.
  2. Organizational efforts to build skills-based competencies.
  3. Supplying technical know-how to employees when rapidly changing technology puts a firm in danger of losing its ability to compete.  
Ensuring that structure follows strategy by :
  • Deciding which value chain activities to perform internally and which to outsource.
  • Aligning the firm's organizational structure with the strategy.
  • Determining how much authority to delegate
  • Facilitating collaboration with external partners and strategic allies
Structuring the work effort to promote successful strategy execution


Organizational approach to decision-making

  1. Centralized decision making - Authority is retained by top management
  2. Decentralized decision making - Authority delegated to lower-level managers and employees
Capturing cross-business strategic fit
  • Enforcing close cross-business collaboration to avoid duplication of effort
  • Centralizing related functions requiring close coordination at the corporate level

Matching structure to strategy
- Pick a basic organizational design that matches structure to strategy
- Supplement design with appropriate coordinating mechanisms
- Institute collaborative networking and communication arrangements

CHAPTER 11

MANAGING INTERNAL OPERATIONS : ACTIONS THAT PROMOTE GOOD STRATEGY EXECUTION
Managing for continous improvement
  1. Benchmarking
  2. Process reengineering
  3. Six sigma quality programs - define, measure, analyze, improve, control
  4. Total quality management
  5. Best practices
Top-notch strategy execution and operating excellence
  • Business process reenginering
    • Aims at one-time quantum improvement
  • Continuous improvement
    • Aims at ongoing incremental improvements
Benefits of information technologies
* Enable better strategy execution through data-based decisions
* Strengthen organizational capabilities
* Allow for real-time tracking of implementation initiatives and daily operations
* Provide monitoring of empowered employee performance (electronic scorecard)
* Build closer relationships with customers

Key strategic performance indicators tracked by information system
- Customer data
- Operations data
- Employee data
- Supplier / collaborative ally data
- Financial performance data
Nonmonetary approaches to enhancing motivation

> Provide attractive perks and fringe benefits
> Give awards and other forms of public recognition
> Rely on promotion from within whenever possible
> Invite and act on ideas and suggestions
> Create a work atmosphere of caring and mutual respect
> State the strategic vision in inspirational terms
> Share the firm's critical information with employees
Provide a comfortable working environment

The firm's motivational approaches and rewards structure

  • Rewards
    • Commitment-generating incentives and rewards
  • Punishment
    • Adverse employment consequences


Guidelines for designing effective incentive compensations system
---> Make financial incentives a major, not minor, piece of total compensation package
---> Have incentives the extend to all mangers and all workers, not just top management
---> Administer the reward system with scrupulous objectivity and fairness
---> Keep the time between achieving targeted performance outcome and payment of the reward as short as         possible
---> Avoid rewarding effort rather than results
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LECTURE 9 (19 NOVEMBER 2013)

The tenth week of lecture...

Assalamualaikum w.b.t
Alhamdulillah we meet again on tuesday for learning Strategic Management. This week our beloved lecturer Dr Ummi is continuing her lecture, the topic is " Corporate Strategy : Diversification and The Multibusiness Company "

The Core Concept of this topic is :-


  • Creating added value for shareholders via diversification requires building a multibusiness company where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts~an outcome known as synergy.
  • An acquisition premium is the amount by which the price offered exceeds the preacquisition market value of the target firm.
  • Corporate venturing (or new venture development) is the process of developing new business as an outgrowth of a firm's established business operations. It is also referred to as corporate entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship since it requires entrepreneurial-like qualities within a larger entreprise.
  •  Transaction costs are the cost of completing a business agreement or deal of some sort, over and above the price of the deal. They can include the costs of searching for an attractive target, the costs of evaluating its worth, bargaining costs, and the costs of completing the transaction.
  • Strategic fit exists whenever one or more activities constituting the value chains of different business are sufficiently similar as to present opportunities for cross-business sharing or transferring of the resources and capabilities that enable these activities.
  •  

SPECIALIZED vs GENEREALIZED RESOURCES and CAPABILITIES
-Specialized resources and capabilities have very specific applications and their use is limited to a restricted range of industry and business types
-Generalized resources and capabilities can be widely applied can be deployed across a broad range of industry and business types
-Leveraged in related diversification
-Leveraged in unrelated and related diversification


  • Corporate parenting refers to the role that a diversified corporation plays in nurturing its component business through the provision of top management expertise, disciplined control, financial resources, and other types of generalized resources and capabilities such as long-term planning systems, business development skills, management development process, and incentive systems.
  • A diversified firm has a parenting advantage when it is more able than other firms  boost the combined performance of its individual business through high-level guidance, general oversight, and other corporate-level contributions.
  • Restructuring refers to overhauling and streamlining the activities of a business-combining plants with excess capacity, selling off underutilized assets, reducing unnecessary expenses, and otherwise improving the productivity and profitability of the firm.
  • A spinoff is an independent company created when a corporate parent divests a business by distributing to its stockholders new shares in this business.
  • Companywide restructuring (corporate restructuring) involves making major changes in a diversified company by divesting some business and/or acquiring others, so as to put a whole new face on the company's business lineup.
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LECTURE 8 (12 NOVEMBER 2013)

The ninth week of lecture...

This week no lecture but just sharing knowledge from Oshima Restaurant.


O~SHIMA RESTAURANT





Type - Authentic Japanese (in original)
         - Fusion Food (modernize food)

Special - Halal
            - Affordable (offers the lowest price)

Challenges and Obstacles
1- Halal certification
  • Suppliers in Japan refuse to apply Halal
  • High cost to certify overseas suppliers
2- Financial = bank loans, grant, etc.
  • Food business park
  • Request of strong background in financial in business when apply for loans
3- Gain trust from suppliers
  • Credit limit
4- Human Resource (major problem in any business)
  • Difficulty in finding workers
  • Difficulty to find trustworthy workers
  • Handle people problem
  • No loyalty
Common reason for business failure
  • No knowledge about business
  • Do not intend to study about business
  • Do not separate private with business account
  • Have no sense of customer satisfaction
  • Premises existence are unknown
  • have a little or no budget for promotion
  • Do not take advantages of social media, internet, etc
  • Have a little or no budget
Common strategy to succeed in doing business.
  1. have your niche but understand needs
  2. have a good location
  3. increase brand awareness
  4. retain current customer  and increase new one
  5. make a full use of social media, websites or blog
  6. have a passion in your own business don't just copy
  7. do not use your profit, take salary instead
  8. your friends and family also pay
  9. do not ask for money " Ikhlas for Allah " money will come
Corporate Social Responsibility

--> Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah 2011
--> Buka puasa with needy kids
-->Knowledge sharing : JAKIM 2013
                                   : SMK Kota Kemuning S/A 2013
                                   : GSK 2013

That is all what I've got from this sharing session.
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Like page : 
https://www.facebook.com/oshimarestaurant



Sunday, 10 November 2013

LECTURE 7 (29 OCTOBER 2013)

The eighth week of lecture...
Chapter 7

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...
Firstly,i'm sorry for not attending this lecture because i had to seat for speaking MUET examination. But i'm just want to make a doodle for this entry. 

The topic of chapter 7 is " strategies for competing in international markets ". The point that be highlighted :
POLITICAL RISKS
What is political risks?
Political stem from instability or weaknesses in national governments and hostility to foreign business.

ECONOMIC RISKS
What is economic risks?
Economic risks stem from the stability of a country's monetary system, economic and regulatory policies, the lack of property rights protections.

GREENFIELD VENTURE
What is greenfield venture?
A subsidiary business that is established by setting up the entire operation from the ground up.

COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIES
What is collaborative strategies?
Collaborative strategies involving alliances or joint ventures with foreign partners are a popular way for companies to edge their way into the markets of foreign markets.

CROSS-BOARDER ALLIANCES
What is cross-boarder alliances?



Cross-boarder alliances enable a growth-minded company to widen its geographic coverage and strengthen its competitiveness in foreign markets, at the same time, they offer flexibility and allow a company to retain some degree of autonomy and operating control.

INTERNAL STRATEGY
What is internal strategy?
Internal strategy is a strategy for competing in two or more countries simultaneously.

MULTIDOMESTIC STRATEGY
What is multidomestic strategy?
Multidomestic strategy is one in which a firm varies its product offering and competitive approach from country to country in an effort to be responsive to differing buyer preferences and market conditions. It is a think-local, act-local type of international strategy, facilitated by decision making decentralized to the local level.

GLOBAL STRATEGY
What is global strategy?
Global strategy is one in which a company employs the same basic competitive approach in all countries where it operates, sells much the same products everywhere, strives to build global brands, and coordinates its action worldwide with strong headquarters control. It represents a think-global, act-global approach. 
TRANSNATIONAL STRATEGY
What is transnational strategy?
Transnational strategy is a think-global, act-local approach that incorporates elements of both multidomestic and global strategies.

PROFIT SANCTUARIES
What is profit sanctuaries?
Profit sanctuaries are country markets that provide a firm with substantial profits because of a strong or protected market position.

CROSS-MARKET SUBSIDIZATION
What is cross-market subsidization?
Cross-market subsidization supporting a competitive offensive in one market with resources and profits diverted from operations in another market. Can be a powerful competitive weapon.
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Saturday, 9 November 2013

LECTURE 6 (22 OCTOBER 2013)

The seventh week of lecture...
Chapter 6


" STRENGTHENING A COMPANY'S COMPETITIVE POSITION: STRATEGIC MOVES, TIMING AND SCOPE OF OPERATIONS "

BLUE-OCEAN STRATEGY
  • offers growth in revenues and profits by discovering or inventing new industry segments that create altogether new demand.
- Because of first-mover advantages and disadvantages, competitive advantage can spring from when a move is made as well as from what move is made.

HORIZONTAL SCOPE
  • the range of products and service segments that a firm serves within its focal market.
VERTICAL SCOPE
  • the extent to which a firm's internal activities encompass one, some, many or all of the activities that make up an industry's entire value chain system, ranging from raw-material production to final sales and service activities.
VERTICALLY INTEGRATED FIRM
  • one that performs value chain activities along more than one stage of an industry's value chain system.
BACKWARD INTEGRATION
  • involves entry into activities previously performed by suppliers or other enterprises positioned along earlier stages of the industry value chain system.
FORWARD INTEGRATION
  • involves entry into value chain system activities closer to the end user.
OUTSOURCING
  • involves contracting out certain value chain activities to outside vendors. 
STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
  • a formal agreement between two or more separate companies in which they agree to work cooperatively toward some common objective.
JOINT VENTURE
  • a partnership involving the establishment of an independent corporate entity that the partners own and control jointly sharing in its revenues and expenses.
                                                                                                                                                                                                               tq...:) 
Addition :

The example of blue ocean company.



FedEx Federal Express
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fedex-express-recognizes-employee-heroes-for-exceptional-customer-and-community-service-2013-10-17

courier-journal.com
http://www.courier-journal.com/viewart/20131015/BUSINESS/310150077/

http://www.courier-journal.com/viewart/20131023/BUSINESS/310230130/




LECTURE 5 (8 OCTOBER 2013)

The fifth week of lecture...
Chapter 5

ASSALAMUALAIKUM everyone... We continue the entry of my blog...

This time the chapter is about THE FIVE GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES : WHICH ONE TO EMPLOY ?

The core concept of this chapter :

- A low-cost provider's basis for competitive advantage is lower overall costs than competitors. Successful low-cost leaders, who have the lowest industry costs, are exceptionally good at finding ways to drive costs out of their businesses and still provide a product or service that buyers find acceptable.

- A cost driver is a factor that has a strong influence on a firm's costs.

- Differentiation enhances profitability whenever a company's product can command a sufficiently higher price or produce sufficiently greater unit sales to more than cover the added costs of achieving the differentiation.

- The essence of a broad differentiation strategy is to offer unique product attributes that a wide range of buyers find appealing and worth paying for.

- A uniqueness driver is a factor that can have a strong differentiating effect.

- Best-cost provider strategies are a hybrid of low-cost provider and differentiation strategies that aim at providing desired quality/ features /performance/ service attributes while beating rivals on price.
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Addition :

From the star online about Air Asia Bhd.
http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2013/11/08/Exec-chairman-AirAsia-still-an-aggressive-animal.aspx




LECTURE 4 (1 OCTOBER 2013)

The forth week of lecture...
Chapter 4

This chapter is about "evaluating a company's resources, capabilities, and competitiveness".
RESOURCE---> a competitive asset that is owned or controlled by a firm
.
CAPABILITY or COMPETENCE---> the capacity of a firm to perform and internal activity competently through deployment of a firm's resources
.
COMPETITIVE ASSETS---> when a firm represents its resources and capabilities and are big determinants of its competitiveness and ability to succeed in the marketplace.

RESOURCE BUNDLE---> a linked and closely integrated set of competitive assets centered around one or more cross-functional capabilities. The VRIN tests for sustainable competitive advantage ask if a resource is Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and Non-sustainable.

SOCIAL COMPLEXITY---> ( company culture, interpersonal relationships among mangers or R&D teams, trust-based relations with customers or suppliers ) and causal ambiguity are two factors that inhibit the ability of rivals to imitate a firm's most valuable resources and capabilities. Causal ambiguity makes it very hard to figure out how a complex resources contributes to competitive advantage and therefore exactly what to imitate.

DYNAMIC CAPABILITY---> the ongoing capacity of a firm to modify its existing resources and capabilities or create new ones by:
1- improving existing resources and capabilities incrementally.
2- adding new resources and capabilities to the firm's competitive asset portfolio.

SWOT ANALYSIS---> simple but powerful tool for sizing up a company's strengths and weaknesses, its market opportunities and the external threats to its future well-being.

COMPETENCE---> activity that a firm has learned to perform with proficiency (capability)

CORE COMPETENCE---> activity that a firm performs proficiently that is also central to its strategy and competitive success.
DISTINCTIVE COMPETENCE---> a competitively important activity that a firm performs better than its rivals (competitively superior internal strength)

STRENGTH---> represents its competitive asstes.
WEAKNESSES---> shortcomings that constitute competitive liabilities.

VALUE CHAIN---> identifies the primary activities are related support activities that create customer value.

BENCHMARKING---> a potent tool for improving a company's own internal activities that is based on learning how other companies perform them and borrowing their " best practices ".

                                                                                                   

                                                 tq...:)
Addition :



The example of SWOT + TOWS analysis
I think the news story about the resource. So I'm just sharing to you..

Saturday, 28 September 2013

LECTURE 3 (24 SEPT 2013)

The third week of lecture...
Chapter 3

Ok.. After finished already the chapter 1 & 2, we move to chapter 3. The topic was 

"Evaluating a company's external environment". What I have learnt from this topic was about PESTEL. What was pestel? Pestel was 6 principle of macro environment. Pestel stand for:
P-political factors that influence to business or economy.
E-economic conditions
S-socio cultural forces
T-technological factors
E-environmental factors
L-legal/regulatory conditions
Make sure before we run our business, doing first an industry analysis. Other than that we continued to 
"FIVE FORCES". What was the five forces? The five competitive forces was competition from:
1- rival sellers
2- potential new entrants



3- producers of substitute products
4- supplier bargaining power
5- customer bargaining power
Did you know why these five forces was important? Because... These factors could tell us "how strong the industry's competitive forces are?" either the industry conducive or not.



*NPL - A loan on which the borrower is not making interest payments or repaying any principal. At what point the loan is classified as non-performing by the bank, and when it becomes bad debt, depends on local regulations. Banks normally set aside money to cover potential losses on loans (loan loss provisions) and write off bad debt in their profit and loss account. In some countries, banks that have accumulated too many NPLs are able to sell them on - at a discount - to specially established asset management companies (AMCs), which attempt to recover at least some of the money owed.

tq...:)

Monday, 23 September 2013

LECTURE 2 (17 SEPT 2013)


The second week of lecture...
CHAPTER 1

We started our learning with the first lecture which is " The nature of strategic management ". In strategic management, need for integrating and intuition. Stages that have in this chapter was formulation, implementation, and evaluation.



CHAPTER 2


The first thing is VISION and MISSION. What I understood about this topic, vision statement should be short. The question of vision was " what do we become? " and the mission statement was " what is our business? ". Further, mission had 9 components that must we make an analysis. Firstly, the customer. Of course if we want to make something management or analyse company, we must know our prior strategic. Secondly, product/services the company that they made. Thirdly, the market that we want to launch or the company itself. Next, the technology that used so that the mission successful. Other than that, concern for survival growth and profit. The ideology, explained on believe and the value. After that, self-concept, public image and lastly, the employee.


tq...:)