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· Use the Internet and research a business failure.
· Determine the level of responsibility management had for the business failure you researched. Provide specific examples to support your response.
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Create a list of three best practices that not only would have helped the company you researched from failure, but would also apply to the rest of the industry your company was part of. Explain your rationale for selecting these best practices.
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· Use the Internet and research an industry with a significant impact on your local economy (e.g., autos in Michigan or oil in Louisiana).
· Determine which of the two primary drivers of the competitive landscape is more influential. Explain your rationale.
· Explain which model (I / O model or resource-based model) you believe will best help a firm in the industry you researched earn above-average returns.
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1. Strategic Management and
Strategic Competitiveness, 2
2. The External Environment: Opportunities, Threats,
Industry Competition, and Competitor Analysis, 34
3. The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities,
Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages, 72
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Studying this chapter should provide
you with the strategic management
knowledge needed to:
1. Defi ne strategic competitiveness,
strategy, competitive advantage,
above-average returns, and the
strategic management process.
2. Describe the competitive landscape
and explain how globalization and
technological changes shape it.
3. Use the industrial organization (I/O)
model to explain how fi rms can earn
above-average returns.
4. Use the resource-based model to
explain how fi rms can earn above-
average returns.
5. Describe vision and mission and discuss
their value.
6. Defi ne stakeholders and describe their
ability to infl uence organizations.
7. Describe the work of strategic leaders.
8. Explain the strategic management
process.
CHAPTER 1
Strategic
Management
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Borders changed the way books were sold and
became the largest book retailer in the world.
At one time, it had more than 1,300 large stores
and approximately 35,000 employees. But, in
February 2011, Borders declared bankruptcy.
When it did so, it had shrunk to 674 stores and about 19,500 employees. Borders experi-
enced hard times and paid for the ineffective strategies employed by its executive leader-
ship teams. At its peak in the 1990s, Borders stock sold for more than $35 per share. On
the day it declared bankruptcy, Borders stock sold for 23 cents per share.
What went wrong? Many goods are now sold by large chain store retailers. However,
the way people buy and what they buy is beginning to change—especially in retail sales
of books. Since 1995 and the founding of Amazon.com, books have been sold over the
Internet. But with the rise of digital technol-
ogy, electronic books and devices to read
them have become highly popular. Quite obvi-
ously, they do not require large “brick-and-
mortar” stores to sell them. Borders simply
did not adjust quickly or effectively to these
changes in the marketplace. Of course, it had
to compete against Barnes & Noble, Walmart,
Costco, and other large retailers selling
books. It did not adjust quickly to Amazon’s
appearance in the market. It was much slower
than Barnes & Noble, and that company re-
quired almost two years to launch Barnesand-
noble.com. One of its early mistakes was to
develop an agreement with Amazon to handle
its Internet sales instead of establishing its
own Web presence.
Web-based retailing is growing in popu-
larity, especially for electronic books. With
eReaders such as Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes &
Noble’s NOOK and Apple’s highly versatile
iPad, the old way of selling books is rapidly
becoming a dinosaur. While these changes
were occurring in the retail book market, Bor-
ders invested heavily to enhance the market-
ing for traditional book selling. Borders tried
to lure customers to its stores with promises
of an enriching experiences. Borders was also
harmed by chaos in its executive ranks, having
three regular CEOs and an interim CEO within
a period of about two years. As a result of poor strategic decisions and ineffective strategic
leadership, Borders suffered net losses of $344 million for 2008 and 2009. It also had com-
piled a massive debt in a campaign to buy back its stock while trying to keep the price high.
All of its actions had the opposite effect.
With the bankruptcy, Borders wants to stay in business if it can reach agreement with its
debtors. It plans to close about 200 more stores, and obtain reduced rent by renegotiating
its current long leases. But it must do much more and quickly if it is to survive in the new
book retail market. At the present time, it is diffi cult to see how Borders can survive without
the capabilities to navigate in this new competitive landscape.
Sources: C. Caldwell, 2011, A fate written in the stores. Financial Times. http://www.ft.com, March 4; Borders’
publishers, landlords band together in bankruptcy, 2011, The Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com,
February 25; S. Rosenbaum, 2011, Inside the world of local books—a bright future, Fast Company, http://www.
fastcompany.com, February 21; Borders bankruptcy: What went wrong? 2011, The Wall Street Journal, http://
www.wsj.com, February 16; M. Frazier, 2011, The three lessons of the Borders bankruptcy, Forbes, http://www.
forbes.com, February 16; M. Spector & J. A. Trachtenberg, 2011, Chapter 11 for Borders, new chapter for
books, The Wall Street Journal, http://www.wsj.com, February 12.
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ity to compete against other major book retailers, especially in the area of Internet book
sales. Therefore, we can conclude that Borders was not competitive (unable to achieve
strategic competitiveness). It clearly was unable to earn above-average returns. In fact,
it suffered significant net losses and eventually had to declare bankruptcy because of
inadequate cash flow and assets that were valued less that its liabilities. Its competitors,
Barnes & Noble and Amazon, were more competitive and adjusted more effectively to
changes in the book retail market. For example, both firms had eReaders (the NOOK
and Kindle, respectively) to sell along with electronic books. They used the strategic
management process (see Figure 1.1) as the foundation for the commitments, decisions,
and actions they took to pursue strategic competitiveness and above-average terms.
Obviously, Borders did not use this process and it cost the firm in major ways, perhaps
even its ability to survive. The strategic management process is fully explained in this
book. We introduce you to this process in the next few paragraphs.
Strategic competitiveness is achieved when a firm successfully formulates and
implements a value-creating strategy. A strategy is an integrated and coordinated set
of commitments and actions designed to exploit core competencies and gain a com-
petitive advantage. When choosing a strategy, firms make choices among competing
alternatives as the pathway for deciding how they will pursue strategic competitive-
ness.1 In this sense, the chosen strategy indicates what the firm will do as well as what
the firm will not do.
As explained in the Opening Case, Borders tried to enrich its traditional approach
with more marketing and making its stores more attractive. However, because the
number of books sold through large chain store retailers has been declining, this strat-
egy had little chance for success. A recent study conducted to identify the factors
that contribute to the success of top corporate performers showed why Borders was
unsuccessful. This study found that the top performers were entrepreneurial, market
oriented (effective knowledge of the customers’ needs), used valuable competencies,
and offered innovative products and services.2 Borders displayed none of these attri-
butes. It clearly did not understand its market and customers and it was not innova-
tive. Therefore, its lack of success is not surprising. A firm’s strategy also demonstrates
how it differs from its competitors. Recently, Ford Motor Company devoted efforts to
explain to stakeholders how the company differs from its competitors. The main idea
is that Ford claims that it is “greener” and more technically advanced than its competi-
tors, such as General Motors and Chrysler Group LLC (an alliance between Chrysler
and Fiat SpA).3
A firm has a competitive advantage when it implements a strategy that creates
superior value for customers and that its competitors are unable to duplicate or find too
costly to imitate.4 An organization can be confident that its strategy has resulted in one
or more useful competitive advantages only after competitors’ efforts to duplicate its
strategy have ceased or failed. In addition, firms must understand that no competitive
advantage is permanent.5 The speed with which competitors are able to acquire the skills
needed to duplicate the benefits of a firm’s value-creating strategy determines how long
the competitive advantage will last.6
Above-average returns are returns in excess of what an investor expects to earn
from other investments with a similar amount of risk. Risk is an investor’s uncertainty
about the economic gains or losses that will result from a particular investment.7 The
most successful companies learn how to effectively manage risk. Effectively managing
risks reduces investors’ uncertainty about the results of their investment.8 Returns are
often measured in terms of accounting figures, such as return on assets, return on equity,
or return on sales. Alternatively, returns can be measured on the basis of stock market
returns, such as monthly returns (the end-of-the-period stock price minus the begin-
ning stock price, divided by the beginning stock price, yielding a percentage return). In
smaller, new venture firms, returns are sometimes measured in terms of the amount and
Strategic
competitiveness is
achieved when a fi rm
successfully formulates
and implements a
value-creating strategy.
A strategy is
an integrated and
coordinated set of
commitments and
actions designed
to exploit core
competencies and
gain a competitive
advantage.
A fi rm has a
competitive
advantage when it
implements a strategy
that creates superior
value for customers
and competitors are
unable to duplicate or
fi nd too costly to try to
imitate.
Above-average
returns are returns
in excess of what
an investor expects
to earn from other
investments with a
similar amount of risk.
Risk is an investor’s
uncertainty about the
economic gains or
losses that will result
from a particular
investment.
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speed of growth (e.g., in annual sales) rather than more traditional profitability measures9
because new ventures require time to earn acceptable returns (in the form of return on
assets and so forth) on investors’ investments.10
Understanding how to exploit a competitive advantage is important for firms seeking
to earn above-average returns.11 Firms without a competitive advantage or that are not
competing in an attractive industry earn, at best, average returns. Average returns are
returns equal to those an investor expects to earn from other investments with a simi-
lar amount of risk. In the long run, an inability to earn at least average returns results
first in decline and, eventually, failure. Failure occurs because investors withdraw their
investments from those firms earning less-than-average returns. This is what happened
to Borders when it was unable to earn returns. Indeed, it lost money and because of the
investors’ lack of confidence in the firm, its stock price fell perilously close to zero.
As we noted above, there are no guarantees of permanent success. This is true for
Borders, which enjoyed considerable amount of success in the 1990s. Even considering
Average returns are
returns equal to those
an investor expects
to earn from other
investments with a
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Chapter 7
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Strategies
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International
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Cooperative
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fident and continue its quest to be the leader in its markets. (Apple is the topic of a
Strategic Focus segment later in this chapter.)
The strategic management process (see Figure 1.1) is the full set of commitments,
decisions, and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn
above-average returns. The firm’s first step in the process is to analyze its external envi-
ronment and internal organization to determine its resources, capabilities, and core
competencies—the sources of its “strategic inputs.” Obviously, Borders’ process failed at
this point because it did not understand the market in which it competed. It performed
poorly against other large chain-store retailers and failed to foresee the major changes in
the market with increasing sales of electronic books.
With the information gained from external and internal analyses, the firm develops
its vision and mission and formulates one or more strategies. To implement its strate-
gies, the firm takes actions toward achieving strategic competitiveness and above-average
returns. Effective strategic actions that take place in the context of carefully integrated
strategy formulation and implementation efforts result in positive outcomes. This
dynamic strategic management process must be maintained as ever-changing markets
and competitive structures are coordinated with a firm’s continuously evolving strategic
inputs.12
In the remaining chapters of this book, we use the strategic management process
to explain what firms do to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average
returns. These explanations demonstrate why some firms consistently achieve competi-
tive success while others fail to do so.13 As you will see, the reality of global competition
is a critical part of the strategic management process and significantly influences firms’
performances.14 Indeed, learning how to successfully compete in the globalized world is
one of the most significant challenges for firms competing in the current century.15
Several topics will be discussed in this chapter. First, we describe the current competi-
tive landscape. This challenging landscape is being created primarily by the emergence
of a global economy, globalization resulting from that economy, and rapid technolog-
ical changes. Next, we examine two models that firms use to gather the information
and knowledge required to choose and then effectively implement their strategies. The
insights gained from these models also serve as the foundation for forming the firm’s
vision and mission. The first model (the industrial organization or I/O model) suggests
that the external environment is the primary determinant of a firm’s strategic actions.
Identifying and then competing successfully in an attractive (i.e., profitable) industry or
segment of an industry are the keys to competitive success when using this model.16 The
second model (resource-based) suggests that a firm’s unique resources and capabilities
are the critical link to strategic competitiveness.17 Thus, the first model is concerned
primarily with the firm’s external environment while the second model is concerned
primarily with the firm’s internal organization. After discussing vision and mission,
direction-setting statements that influence the choice and use of strategies, we describe
the stakeholders that organizations serve. The degree to which stakeholders’ needs can
be met increases when firms achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average
returns. Closing the chapter are introductions to strategic leaders and the elements of the
strategic management process.
The Competitive Landscape
The fundamental nature of competition in many of the world’s industries is changing.
The reality is that financial capital continues to be scarce and markets are increasingly
volatile.18 Because of this, the pace of change is relentless and ever-increasing. Even deter-
mining the boundaries of an industry has become challenging. Consider, for example,
how advances in interactive computer networks and telecommunications have blurred
The strategic
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the boundaries of the entertainment industry. Today, not only do cable companies and
satellite networks compete for entertainment revenue from television, but telecommu-
nication companies are moving into the entertainment business through significant
improvements in fiber-optic lines.19 Partnerships among firms in different segments of
the entertainment industry further blur industry boundaries. For example, MSNBC is
co-owned by NBC Universal and Microsoft. In turn, General Electric owns 49 percent of
NBC Universal while Comcast owns the remaining 51 percent.20
Other characteristics of the current competitive landscape are noteworthy.
Conventional sources of competitive advantage such as economies of scale and huge
advertising budgets are not as effective as they once were in terms of helping firms earn
above-average returns. Moreover, the traditional managerial mind-set is unlikely to lead
a firm to strategic competitiveness. Managers must adopt a new mind-set that values
flexibility, speed, innovation, integration, and the challenges that evolve from constantly
changing conditions.21 The conditions of the competitive landscape result in a perilous
business world, one in which the investments that are required to compete on a global
scale are enormous and the consequences of failure are severe.22 Effective use of the stra-
tegic management process reduces the likelihood of failure for firms as they encounter
the conditions of today’s competitive landscape.
Hypercompetition is a term often used to capture the realities of the competitive
landscape. Under conditions of hypercompetition, assumptions of market stability are
replaced by notions of inherent instability and change.23 Hypercompetition results from
the dynamics of strategic maneuvering among global and innovative combatants.24 It is
a condition of rapidly escalating competition based on price-quality positioning, com-
petition to create new know-how and establish first-mover advantage, and competition
to protect or invade established product or geographic markets.25 In a hypercompetitive
market, firms often aggressively challenge their competitors in the hopes of improving
their competitive position and ultimately their performance.26
Several factors create hypercompetitive environments and influence the nature of
the current competitive landscape. The emergence of a global economy and technology,
specifically rapid technological change, are the two primary drivers of hypercompetitive
environments and the nature of today’s competitive landscape.
The Global Economy
A global economy is one in which goods, services, people, skills, and ideas move freely
across geographic borders. Relatively unfettered by artificial constraints, such as tariffs,
the global economy significantly expands and com-
plicates a firm’s competitive environment.27
Interesting opportunities and challenges are
associated with the emergence of the global econ-
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posed of several countries) has become one of the
world’s largest markets, with 700 million poten-
tial customers. “In the past, China was generally
seen as a low-competition market and a low-cost
producer. Today, China is an extremely competi-
tive market in which local market-seeking MNCs
[multinational corporations] must fiercely com-
pete against other MNCs and against those local
companies that are more cost effective and faster
in product development. While China has been
viewed as a country from which to source low-cost
goods, lately, many MNCs, such as P&G [Procter
and Gamble], are actually net exporters of local
management talent; they have been dispatching
A global economy is
one in which goods,
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Building strong relationships is an important
dimension of Chinese culture. In fact, “Guanxi”
(strong relationships in which each party feels
obligated to help the other) is a major element
of doing business in China. Over time, U.S. companies operating in Chinese markets have
learned this lesson. Huawei has learned that Guanxi is also important for doing business in
the United States.
Huawei is the largest manufacturer of phone network equipment in China and second
in global markets to Sweden’s Ericsson AB. Huawei first invested in the United States in
2001 and has developed a sizable presence in global markets, yet the portion of its total
sales revenue from North and South America in negligible. To help build its competitive-
ness in global markets, it hired John Roese, former Chief
Technology Officer at Nortel Networks, to manage its
North American R&D activities. It also hired Matt Bross,
a former British Telecom executive, to serve as Chief
Technology Officer for its U.S. operations. In 2010 it
formed Amerilink Telecom Corp, based in Kansas, in an
attempt to compete for large U.S. contracts.
Huawei has become a highly innovative company, filing
1,737 patents in 2008 alone. In fact, Fast Company ranked
Huawei as the fifth most innovative company in its 2010
listing. The development of major R&D centers (including
one in Silicon Valley in the United States) and the develop-
ment of innovative products are helping Huawei to gain
respect from experts in the telecommunications field. It has
become a major supplier of telecommunications products
such as routers and fiber systems and also has a significant
share of the wireless market with its LTE and WiMAX technologies.
Despite these significant successes, Huawei has experienced problems in the U.S. market
and with the U.S. government. For example, it tried to acquire several U.S. businesses in
2010 and 2011 without success. In 2010, it bid for 2Wire, a consumer electronics and soft-
ware firm, and also tried to acquire the business telecom unit of Motorola, but both were
sold to other companies. The companies said that they did not believe that Huawei would
gain the approval from the U.S. government to make the purchase. In 2011, Huawei tried to
acquire 3Leaf, a U.S.–based company that developed networking technology. Despite the
fact the 3Leaf was insolvent, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States rec-
ommended against the acquisition. Members of the U.S. Congress and government officials
had concerns about Huawei. Thus, Huawei has not built Guanxi with the U.S. government.
Some of the concerns stem from the original linkages between Huawei and the Chinese mili-
tary and because of prior charges against the company suggesting that it stole proprietary
technology. Thus, Huawei has barriers to overcome.
Huawei continues to seek better footing in U.S. markets. For example, the company
has asked the U.S. government to conduct a formal investigation of its business with the
intent to clear its reputation. In addition, Huawei had a major 10-year anniversary celebra-
tion for its U.S. operations. The celebration was held in Santa Clara, California, at its new
large R&D center. In the invitation, Huawei described the firm as a local global company.
The invitation also explained that it has deepened its commitment to the United States in
its first 10 years of operations there, and is a consumer-oriented, responsible corporate
citizen in the communities where it has operations. These are the right words to say, but
Huawei must also convince U.S. government officials of its positive value to the country.
It needs to proactively build relationships with federal and state government officials.
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more Chinese abroad than bringing foreign expatriates to China.”29 China has become
the second-largest economy in the world, surpassing Japan. India, the world’s largest
democracy, has an economy that also is growing rapidly and now ranks as the fourth
largest in the world.30 Simultaneously, many firms in these emerging economies are mov-
ing into international markets and are now regarded as multinational firms. This fact is
explored in the Strategic Focus on Huawei. The discussion shows that barriers to enter-
ing foreign markets still exist, however. Essentially, Huawei must build credibility in the
U.S. market, and especially build a positive relationship with stakeholders such as the
U.S. government.
The statistics detailing the nature of the global economy reflect the realities of a
hypercompetitive business environment and challenge individual firms to think seriously
about the markets in which they will compete. Consider the case of General Electric (GE).
Although headquartered in the United States, GE expects that as much as 60 percent of
its revenue growth through 2015 will be generated by competing in rapidly developing
economies (e.g., China and India). The decision to count on revenue growth in emerg-
ing economies instead of in developed countries such as the United States and European
nations seems quite reasonable in the global economy. GE achieved significant growth
in 2010 partly because of signing contracts for large infrastructure projects in China and
Russia. GE’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, argues that we have entered a new economic era in
which the global economy will be more volatile and that most of the growth will come
from emerging economies such as Brazil, China, and India.31 Therefore, GE is investing
significantly in these emerging economies, in order to improve its competitive position
in vital geographic sources of revenue and profitability.
The March of Globalization
Globalization is the increasing economic interdependence among countries and their
organizations as reflected in the flow of goods and services, financial capital, and knowl-
edge across country borders.32 Globalization is a product of a large number of firms
competing against one another in an increasing number of global economies.
In globalized markets and industries, financial capital might be obtained in one
national market and used to buy raw materials in another. Manufacturing equipment
bought from a third national market can then be used to produce products that are sold
in yet a fourth market. Thus, globalization increases the range of opportunities for com-
panies competing in the current competitive landscape.33
Firms engaging in globalization of their operations must make culturally sensitive
decisions when using the strategic management process.34 Additionally, highly globalized
firms must anticipate ever-increasing complexity in their operations as goods, services,
people, and so forth move freely across geographic borders and throughout different
economic markets.
Some have recommended that it invest in lobbyists to help build and support its relation-
ships as do many large U.S. corporations. Regardless, to achieve the level of success in
U.S. markets desired by Huawei, it will need to build Guanxi with U.S. government offi-
cials, customers, and suppliers.
Sources: E. Woyke, 2011, Huawei holding 10-year U.S. anniversary event to refine reputation, Forbes, www.forbes.com,
March 3; A. W. Goldberg & J. P. Galper, 2011, Where Huawei went wrong in America, The Wall Street Journal, www.
online.wsj.com, March 3; D. Barboza, 2011, China telecom giant, thwarted in U.S. deals, seeks inquiry to clear name,
The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, February 25; E. Lococo, 2011, Huawei says it’s no threat to U.S. security, invites
probe, Bloomberg Businessweek, www.businessweek.com, February 24; D. Ikenson, 2011, Despite Huawei’s experi-
ence, America is increasingly open to Chinese investment, Forbes, www.forbes.com, February 23; K. Eaton, 2010, U.S.
two-faced on China: Happy to spend there, blocks acquisitions here, Fast Company, www.fastcompany.com, August
5; S. Saitto & J. McCracken, 2010, Huawei said to have failed in U.S. takeover bid, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, www.
businessweek.com, August 3l; O. Malik, 2009, Huawei unveils grand ambition in naming Bross CTO, BusinessWeek,
www.businessweek.com, September 30.
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standards in many competitive dimensions, including those of quality, cost, productiv-
ity, product introduction time, and operational efficiency. In addition to firms compet-
ing in the global economy, these standards affect firms competing on a domestic-only
basis. The reason is that customers will purchase from a global competitor rather than a
domestic firm when the global company’s good or service is superior. Because workers
now flow rather freely among global economies, and because employees are a key source
of competitive advantage, firms must understand that increasingly, “the best people will
come from … anywhere.”35 Thus, managers have to learn how to operate effectively in a
“multi-polar” world with many important countries having unique interests and environ-
ments.36 Firms must learn how to deal with the reality that in the competitive landscape
of the twenty-first century, only companies capable of meeting, if not exceeding, global
standards typically have the capability to earn above-average returns.
Although globalization offers potential benefits to firms, it is not without risks.
Collectively, the risks of participating outside of a firm’s domestic country in the global
economy are labeled a “liability of foreignness.”37
One risk of entering the global market is the amount of time typically required for
firms to learn how to compete in markets that are new to them. A firm’s performance
can suffer until this knowledge is either developed locally or transferred from the home
market to the newly established global location.38 Additionally, a firm’s performance
may suffer with substantial amounts of globalization. In this instance, firms may over-
diversify internationally beyond their ability to manage these extended operations.39
Overdiversification can have strong negative effects on a firm’s overall performance.
Thus, entry into international markets, even for firms with substantial experience
in the global economy, requires effective use of the strategic management process. It is
also important to note that even though global markets are an attractive strategic option
for some companies, they are not the only source of strategic competitiveness. In fact,
for most companies, even for those capable of competing successfully in global markets,
it is critical to remain committed to and strategically competitive in both domestic and
international markets by staying attuned to technological opportunities and potential
competitive disruptions that innovations create.40
Technology and Technological Changes
Technology-related trends and conditions can be placed into three categories: technology
diffusion and disruptive technologies, the information age, and increasing knowledge
intensity. Through these categories, technology is significantly altering the nature of com-
petition and contributing to unstable competitive environments as a result of doing so.
Technology Diffusion and Disruptive Technologies
The rate of technology diffusion, which is the speed at which new technologies become
available and are used, has increased substantially over the past 15 to 20 years. Consider
the following rates of technology diffusion:
It took the telephone 35 years to get into 25 percent of all homes in the United States. It took
TV 26 years. It took radio 22 years. It took PCs 16 years. It took the Internet 7 years.41
Perpetual innovation is a term used to describe how rapidly and consistently new,
information-intensive technologies replace older ones. The shorter product life cycles
resulting from these rapid diffusions of new technologies place a competitive premium on
being able to quickly introduce new, innovative goods and services into the marketplace.42
In fact, when products become somewhat indistinguishable because of the wide-
spread and rapid diffusion of technologies, speed to market with innovative products
may be the primary source of competitive advantage (see Chapter 5).43 Indeed, some
argue that the global economy is increasingly driven by or revolves around constant
innovations. Not surprisingly, such innovations must be derived from an understanding
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of global standards and expectations of product functionality.44 Although some argue
that large established firms may have trouble innovating, evidence suggests that today
these firms are developing radically new technologies that transform old industries or
create new ones.45 Apple is an excellent example of a large established firm capable of
radical innovation. Also, in order to diffuse the technology and enhance the value of an
innovation, additional firms need to be innovative in their use of the new technology,
building it into their products.46
Another indicator of rapid technology diffusion is that it now may take only 12 to
18 months for firms to gather information about their competitors’ research and develop-
ment and product decisions.47 In the global economy, competitors can sometimes imitate
a firm’s successful competitive actions within a few days. In this sense, the rate of tech-
nological diffusion has reduced the competitive benefits of patents. Today, patents may
be an effective way of protecting proprietary technology in a small number of industries
such as pharmaceuticals. Indeed, many firms competing in the electronics industry often
do not apply for patents to prevent competitors from gaining access to the technological
knowledge included in the patent application.
Disruptive technologies—technologies that destroy the value of an existing technology
and create new markets48—surface frequently in today’s competitive markets. Think of the
new markets created by the technologies underlying the development of products such
as iPods, iPads, WiFi, and the browser. These types of products are thought by some to
represent radical or breakthrough innovations.49 (We discuss more about radical innova-
tions in Chapter 13.) A disruptive or radical technology can create what is essentially a new
industry or can harm industry incumbents. However, some incumbents are able to adapt
based on their superior resources, experience, and ability to gain access to the new technol-
ogy through multiple sources (e.g., alliances, acquisitions, and ongoing internal research).50
Clearly, Apple has developed and introduced “disruptive technologies” such as the
iPod, and in so doing changed several industries. For example, the iPod and its comple-
mentary iTunes have revolutionized how music is sold to and used by consumers. In con-
junction with other complementary and competitive products (e.g., Amazon’s Kindle),
Apple’s iPad is contributing to and speeding major changes in the publishing industry,
moving from hard copies to electronic books. Apple’s new technologies and products
are also contributing to the new “information age”. Thus, Apple provides an example of
entrepreneurship through technology emergence across multiple industries.51
The Information Age
Dramatic changes in information technology have occurred in recent years. Personal
computers, cellular phones, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, massive databases, and
multiple social networking sites are only a few examples of how information is used differ-
ently as a result of technological developments. An important outcome of these changes
is that the ability to effectively and efficiently access and use information has become an
important source of competitive advantage in virtually all industries. Information tech-
nology advances have given small firms more flexibility in competing with large firms, if
that technology can be efficiently used.52
Both the pace of change in information technology and its diffusion will continue to
increase. For instance, the number of personal computers in use globally is expected to
surpass three billion by 2012. More than 335 million were sold in the United States alone
in 2011.53 The declining costs of information technologies and the increased accessibility
to them are also evident in the current competitive landscape. The global proliferation
of relatively inexpensive computing power and its linkage on a global scale via computer
networks combine to increase the speed and diffusion of information technologies. Thus,
the competitive potential of information technologies is now available to companies of all
sizes throughout the world, including those in emerging economies.54
The Internet is another technological innovation contributing to hypercompetition.
Available to an increasing number of people throughout the world, the Internet provides
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A popular children’s game is to take the core
of an apple after eating it and say “Apple
core, Baltimore, who is your friend?” Another
child names a “friend” and the first child
throws the apple core at him/her. The child who is a target may not want the apple core
thrown at her or him. In the world of business, firms clearly do not want to be targeted by
Apple’s core with new technology, which is likely in the form of an innovative product. In
recent years, Apple has transformed industries with the introduction of new products such as
the iPod, iPad (currently causing a transformation), and to some degree, even the iPhone.
Apple has achieved phenomenal success with the introduction of
these innovative products. In fact, Steven Jobs was selected by Fortune
magazine as the CEO of the first decade of the twenty-first century,
based on the fact that Apple under his leadership has transformed
four industries, three of them in the most recent decade. In addition,
in 2011, Fast Company named Apple the most innovative company,
and Fortune ranked Apple as the top company in its annual survey and
evaluation of companies based on multiple criteria. In addition, Apple
had the second largest market capitalization of all firms in the world.
As these data suggest, Apple is one of the top companies in the world
based on almost any criterion or set of criteria used. Because of this,
Apple is perceived exceptionally well by customers and has what some
refer to as “legendary” market power. An executive with one telecom-
munications company suggested that to negotiate with Apple, one
has to start on his knees, implying that you almost have to beg them
to partner with your firm. Apple’s growth rate has been phenomenal
and its financial performance even more impressive. And, the appeal
of Apple’s products is global. For example, Apple has announced the
opening of its fifth store in China to handle growing demand for its
products. Currently, Apple’s stores in China handle 40,000 people daily,
four times the average flow of customers in its U.S. stores.
Although there are many reasons for its success, the primary reason
rests with Apple’s new technology development and innovative new
products. Apple’s most recent successful launch was the iPad. When
it was introduced, analysts projected sales somewhere between 1 to
10 million units. In the first nine months after the iPad’s introduction,
Apple sold 15 million of them. As often happens with highly successful
innovations, competitors quickly developed and introduced imitative iPads. In fact, competi-
tors sold almost 1 million units during the first year after the iPad’s introduction to the market.
One consulting firm announced that 64 different companies introduced a total of 102 different
tablets designed to sell to the same market as the iPad. Apple then introduced the iPad 2,
which is lighter, faster, and more versatile, yet usually sells for the same price as the original
iPad . One executive described the iPad 2 as Secretariat (the famous champion thoroughbred
race horse).He suggested that it would lead the imitative competitors’ products by 31 lengths
(as Secretariat did in the Belmont Stakes). Apple is expected to retain at least 80 percent of the
tablet computer market even with the many imitative products on the market.
Sources: 2011, World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune, www.fortune.com, March 3; B. Worthen, 2011, With new
iPad, Apple tries to stay ahead of wave of tablet rivals, The Wall Street Journal, www.online.wsj.com, March 3; G. A.
Fowler & N. Wingfield, 2011, Apple’s showman takes the stage The Wall Street Journal, www.online.wsj.com, March
3; 2011, Apple and the tablets, Financial Times, www.ft.com, March 1; N. Louth, 2011, Finding value in Apple’score,
Financial Times, www.ft.com, February 25; M. Helft, 2011, After iPad’s head start, rival tablets are poised to flood offices,
The New York Times, www.nytimes.com, February 20; L. Chao, 2011, New Shanghai Apple store will be biggest in
China, The Wall Street Journal, www.online.wsj.com, February 18.
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an infrastructure that allows the delivery of infor-
mation to computers in any location. Access to the
Internet on smaller devices such as cell phones is
having an ever-growing impact on competition in a
number of industries. However, possible changes to
Internet Service Providers’ (ISPs) pricing structures
could affect the rate of growth of Internet-based
applications. Users downloading or streaming high-
definition movies, playing video games online, and
so forth would be affected the most if ISPs were to
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Increasing Knowledge Intensity
Knowledge (information, intelligence, and exper-
tise) is the basis of technology and its application. In
the competitive landscape of the twenty-first cen-
tury, knowledge is a critical organizational resource
and an increasingly valuable source of competitive
advantage.55 Indeed, starting in the 1980s, the basis
of competition shifted from hard assets to intangible resources. For example, “Wal-Mart
transformed retailing through its proprietary approach to supply chain management and
its information-rich relationships with customers and suppliers.”56 Relationships with
customers and suppliers are an example of an intangible resource.
Knowledge is gained through experience, observation, and inference and is an intan-
gible resource (tangible and intangible resources are fully described in Chapter 3). The
value of intangible resources, including knowledge, is growing as a proportion of total
shareholder value in today’s competitive landscape.57 In fact, the Brookings Institution
estimates that intangible resources contribute approximately 85 percent of that value.58
The probability of achieving strategic competitiveness is enhanced for the firm that
develops the ability to capture intelligence, transform it into usable knowledge, and dif-
fuse it rapidly throughout the company.59 Therefore, firms must develop (e.g., through
training programs) and acquire (e.g., by hiring educated and experienced employees)
knowledge, integrate it into the organization to create capabilities, and then apply it to
gain a competitive advantage.60
A strong knowledge base is necessary to create innovations. In fact, firms lacking the
appropriate internal knowledge resources are less likely to invest money in research and
development.61 Firms must continue to learn (building their knowledge stock) because
knowledge spillovers to competitors are common. There are several ways in which
knowledge spillovers occur, including the hiring of professional staff and managers by
competitors.62 Because of the potential for spillovers, firms must move quickly to use
their knowledge in productive ways. In addition, firms must build routines that facilitate
the diffusion of local knowledge throughout the organization for use everywhere that it
has value.63 Firms are better able to do these things when they have strategic flexibility.
Strategic flexibility is a set of capabilities used to respond to various demands and
opportunities existing in a dynamic and uncertain competitive environment. Thus, stra-
tegic flexibility involves coping with uncertainty and its accompanying risks.64 Firms
should try to develop strategic flexibility in all areas of their operations. However, those
working within firms to develop strategic flexibility should understand that the task is
not easy, largely because of inertia that can build up over time. A firm’s focus and past
core competencies may actually slow change and strategic flexibility.65
To be strategically flexible on a continuing basis and to gain the competitive benefits of
such flexibility, a firm has to develop the capacity to learn. Continuous learning provides
the firm with new and up-to-date skill sets, which allow it to adapt to its environment as
it encounters changes.66 Firms capable of rapidly and broadly applying what they have
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the probability of successfully dealing with uncertain, hypercompetitive environments.
The I/O Model of
Above-Average Returns
From the 1960s through the 1980s, the external environment was thought to be the
primary determinant of strategies that firms selected to be successful.67 The industrial
organization model of above-average returns explains the external environment’s domi-
nant influence on a firm’s strategic actions. The model specifies that the industry or seg-
ment of an industry in which a company chooses to compete has a stronger influence on
performance than do the choices managers make inside their organizations.68 The firm’s
performance is believed to be determined primarily by a range of industry properties,
including economies of scale, barriers to market entry, diversification, product differ-
entiation, and the degree of concentration of firms in the industry.69 We examine these
industry characteristics in Chapter 2.
Grounded in economics, the I/O model has four underlying assumptions. First, the
external environment is assumed to impose pressures and constraints that determine
the strategies that would result in above-average returns. Second, most firms competing
within an industry or within a segment of that industry are assumed to control similar
strategically relevant resources and to pursue similar strategies in light of those resources.
Third, resources used to implement strategies are assumed to be highly mobile across
firms, so any resource differences that might develop between firms will be short-lived.
Fourth, organizational decision makers are assumed to be rational and committed to act-
ing in the firm’s best interests, as shown by their profit-maximizing behaviors.70 The I/O
model challenges firms to find the most attractive industry in which to compete. Because
most firms are assumed to have similar valuable resources that are mobile across compa-
nies, their performance generally can be increased only when they operate in the industry
with the highest profit potential and learn how to use their resources to implement the
strategy required by the industry’s structural characteristics.71
The five forces model of competition is an analytical tool used to help firms find the
industry that is the most attractive for them. The model (explained in Chapter 2) encom-
passes several variables and tries to capture the complexity of competition. The five
forces model suggests that an industry’s profitability (i.e., its rate of return on invested
capital relative to its cost of capital) is a function of interactions among five forces: sup-
pliers, buyers, competitive rivalry among firms currently in the industry, product substi-
tutes, and potential entrants to the industry.72
Firms use the five forces model to identify the attractiveness of an industry (as mea-
sured by its profitability potential) as well as the most advantageous position for the firm to
take in that industry, given the industry’s structural characteristics.73 Typically, the model
suggests that firms can earn above-average returns by producing either standardized goods
or services at costs below those of competitors (a cost leadership strategy) or by producing
differentiated goods or services for which customers are willing to pay a price premium
(a differentiation strategy). (The cost leadership and product differentiation strategies are
discussed in Chapter 4.) The fact that “… the fast food industry is becoming a ‘zero-sum
industry’ as companies’ battle for the same pool of customers”74 suggests that fast food giant
McDonald’s is competing in a relatively unattractive industry. However, by focusing on
product innovations and enhancing existing facilities while buying properties outside the
United States at attractive prices for selectively building new stores, McDonald’s is posi-
tioned in the fast food (or quick-service) restaurant industry to earn above-average returns.
As shown in Figure 1.2, the I/O model suggests that above-average returns are earned
when firms are able to effectively study the external environment as the foundation for
identifying an attractive industry and implementing the appropriate strategy. For example,
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ing joint ventures. Because of these outcomes, the joint ventures increase profitability in
the industry.75 Companies that develop or acquire the internal skills needed to implement
strategies required by the external environment are likely to succeed, while those that do
not are likely to fail.76 Hence, this model suggests that returns are determined primarily by
external characteristics rather than by the firm’s unique internal resources and capabilities.
Research findings support the I/O model in that approximately 20 percent of a firm’s
profitability is explained by the industry in which it chooses to compete. However, this
research also shows that 36 percent of the variance in firm profitability can be attributed
to the firm’s characteristics and actions.77 These findings suggest that the external envi-
ronment and a firm’s resources, capabilities, core competencies, and competitive advan-
tages (see Chapter 3) influence the company’s ability to achieve strategic competitiveness
and earn above-average returns.
As shown in Figure 1.2, the I/O model assumes that a firm’s strategy to be a set of
commitments and actions flowing from the characteristics of the industry in which the
firm has decided to compete. The resource-based model, discussed next, takes a different
view of the major influences on a firm’s choice of strategy.
1. Study the external
environment, especially
the industry environment.
2. Locate an industry with
high potential for above-
average returns.
3. Identify the strategy called
for by the attractive
industry to earn above-
average returns.
4. Develop or acquire assets
and skills needed to
implement the strategy.
5. Use the firm’s strengths (its
developed or acquired assets
and skills) to implement
the strategy.
The External Environment
• The general environment
• The industry environment
• The competitor environment
An Attractive Industry
• An industry whose structural
characteristics suggest above-
average returns
Strategy Formulation
• Selection of a strategy linked with
above-average returns in a
particular industry
Assets and Skills
• Assets and skills required to
implement a chosen strategy
Strategy Implementation
• Selection of strategic actions linked
with effective implementation of
the chosen strategy
Superior Returns
• Earning of above-average
returns
Figure 1.2 The I/O Model of Above-Average Returns
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The Resource-Based Model
of Above-Average Returns
The resource-based model assumes that each organization is a collection of unique
resources and capabilities. The uniqueness of its resources and capabilities is the basis of
a firm’s strategy and its ability to earn above-average returns.78
Resources are inputs into a firm’s production process, such as capital equipment,
the skills of individual employees, patents, finances, and talented managers. In general, a
firm’s resources are classified into three categories: physical, human, and organizational
capital. Described fully in Chapter 3, resources are either tangible or intangible in nature.
Individual resources alone may not yield a competitive advantage.79 In fact, resources
have a greater likelihood of being a source of competitive advantage when they are formed
into a capability. A capability is the capacity for a set of resources to perform a task or
an activity in an integrative manner. Capabilities evolve over time and must be managed
dynamically in pursuit of above-average returns.80 Core competencies are resources
and capabilities that serve as a source of competitive advantage for a firm over its rivals.
Core competencies are often visible in the form of organizational functions. For example,
Apple’s R&D function is likely one of its core competencies. There is little doubt that its
ability to produce innovative new products that are perceived as valuable in the market-
place is a core competence for Apple, as suggested in the earlier Strategic Focus.
According to the resource-based model, differences in firms’ performances across time
are due primarily to their unique resources and capabilities rather than the industry’s
structural characteristics. This model also assumes that firms acquire different resources
and develop unique capabilities based on how they combine and use the resources; that
resources and certainly capabilities are not highly mobile across firms; and that the differ-
ences in resources and capabilities are the basis of competitive advantage.81 Through con-
tinued use, capabilities become stronger and more difficult for competitors to understand
and imitate. As a source of competitive advantage, a capability “should be neither so simple
that it is highly imitable, nor so complex that it defies internal steering and control.”82
The resource-based model of superior returns is shown in Figure 1.3. This model
suggests that the strategy the firm chooses should allow it to use its competitive advan-
tages in an attractive industry (the I/O model is used to identify an attractive industry).
Not all of a firm’s resources and capabilities have the potential to be the foundation
for a competitive advantage. This potential is realized when resources and capabilities are
valuable, rare, costly to imitate, and nonsubstitutable.83 Resources are valuable when they
allow a firm to take advantage of opportunities or neutralize threats in its external envi-
ronment. They are rare when possessed by few, if any, current and potential competitors.
Resources are costly to imitate when other firms either cannot obtain them or are at a
cost disadvantage in obtaining them compared with the firm that already possesses them.
And they are nonsubstitutable when they have no structural equivalents. Many resources
can either be imitated or substituted over time. Therefore, it is difficult to achieve and
sustain a competitive advantage based on resources alone.84 Individual resources are
often integrated to produce integrated configurations in order to build capabilities. These
capabilities are more likely to have these four attributes.85 When these four criteria are
met, however, resources and capabilities become core competencies.
As noted previously, research shows that both the industry environment and a firm’s
internal assets affect that firm’s performance over time.86 Thus, to form a vision and
mission, and subsequently to select one or more strategies and determine how to imple-
ment them, firms use both the I/O and the resource-based models.87 In fact, these mod-
els complement each other in that one (I/O) focuses outside the firm while the other
(resource-based) focuses inside the firm. Next, we discuss the forming of the firm’s vision
and mission—actions taken after the firm understands the realities of its external envi-
ronment (Chapter 2) and internal organization (Chapter 3).
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Resources are inputs
into a fi rm’s production
process, such as capital
equipment, the skills of
individual employees,
patents, fi nances, and
talented managers.
A capability is the
capacity for a set of
resources to perform a
task or an activity in an
integrative manner.
Core competencies
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serve as a source of
competitive advantage
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Vision and Mission
After studying the external environment and the internal organization, the firm has the
information it needs to form its vision and a mission (see Figure 1.1). Stakeholders (those
who affect or are affected by a firm’s performance, as explained later in the chapter) learn
a great deal about a firm by studying its vision and mission. Indeed, a key purpose of
vision and mission statements is to inform stakeholders of what the firm is, what it seeks
to accomplish, and who it seeks to serve.
Vision
Vision is a picture of what the firm wants to be and, in broad terms, what it wants to
ultimately achieve.88 Thus, a vision statement articulates the ideal description of an orga-
nization and gives shape to its intended future. In other words, a vision statement points
the firm in the direction of where it would like to be in the years to come.89 An effective
vision stretches and challenges people as well. In her book about Steve Jobs, Apple’s
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1. Identify the firm’s resources.
Study its strengths and
weaknesses compared with
those of competitors.
2. Determine the firm’s
capabilities. What do the
capabilities allow the firm
to do better than its
competitors?
3. Determine the potential
of the firm’s resources
and capabilities in terms of
a competitive advantage.
4. Locate an attractive
industry.
5. Select a strategy that best
allows the firm to utilize
its resources and capabilities
relative to opportunities in
the external environment.
Capability
• Capacity of an integrated set of
resources to integratively perform a
task or activity
Competitive Advantage
• Ability of a firm to outperform
its rivals
An Attractive Industry
• An industry with opportunities
that can be exploited by the
firm’s resources and capabilities
Strategy Formulation and
Implementation
• Strategic actions taken to earn above-
average returns
Superior Returns
• Earning of above-average returns
Resources
• Inputs into a firm’s production
process
Vision is a picture of
what the fi rm wants
to be and, in broad
terms, what it wants to
ultimately achieve.
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ts phenomenally successful CEO, Carmine Gallo argues that one of the reasons that Apple
is so innovative is Jobs’ vision for the company. She suggests that he thinks bigger and
differently than most people—she describes it as “putting a dent in the universe”. To
be innovative, she explains that one has to think differently about their products and
customers—“sell dreams not products”—and differently about the story to “create great
expectations”.90 Interestingly, many new entrepreneurs are highly optimistic when they
develop their ventures.91
It is also important to note that vision statements reflect a firm’s values and aspirations
and are intended to capture the heart and mind of each employee and, hopefully, many of
its other stakeholders. A firm’s vision tends to be enduring while its mission can change
with new environmental conditions. A vision statement tends to be relatively short and
concise, making it easily remembered. Examples of vision statements include the following:
Our vision is to be the world’s best quick service restaurant. (McDonald’s)
To make the automobile accessible to every American. (Ford Motor Company’s vision
when established by Henry Ford)
As a firm’s most important and prominent strategic leader, the CEO is responsible
for working with others to form the firm’s vision. Experience shows that the most effec-
tive vision statement results when the chief executive officer (CEO) involves a host of
stakeholders (e.g., other top-level managers, employees working in different parts of the
organization, suppliers, and customers) to develop it. In addition, to help the firm reach
its desired future state, a vision statement should be clearly tied to the conditions in
the firm’s external environment and internal organization. Moreover, the decisions and
actions of those involved with developing the vision, especially the CEO and the other
top-level managers, must be consistent with that vision.
Mission
The vision is the foundation for the firm’s mission. A mission specifies the business or
businesses in which the firm intends to compete and the customers it intends to serve.92
The firm’s mission is more concrete than its vision. However, similar to the vision, a
mission should establish a firm’s individuality and should be inspiring and relevant to
all stakeholders.93 Together, the vision and mission provide the foundation that the firm
needs to choose and implement one or more strategies. The probability of forming an
effective mission increases when employees have a strong sense of the ethical standards
that guide their behaviors as they work to help the firm reach its vision.94 Thus, business
ethics are a vital part of the firm’s discussions to decide what it wants to become (its
vision) as well as who it intends to serve and how it desires to serve those individuals and
groups (its mission).95
Even though the final responsibility for forming the firm’s mission rests with the
CEO, the CEO and other top-level managers often involve more people in developing the
mission. The main reason is that the mission deals more directly with product markets
and customers, and middle- and first-level managers and other employees have more
direct contact with customers and the markets in which they are served. Examples of
mission statements include the following:
Be the best employer for our people in each community around the world and deliver
operational excellence to our customers in each of our restaurants. (McDonald’s)
Our mission is to be recognized by our customers as the leader in applications engineer-
ing. We always focus on the activities customers desire; we are highly motivated and strive
to advance our technical knowledge in the areas of material, part design and fabrication
technology. (LNP, a GE Plastics Company)
McDonald’s mission statement flows from its vision of being the world’s best quick-
service restaurant. LNP’s mission statement describes the business areas (material, part
design, and fabrication technology) in which the firm intends to compete.
A mission specifi es
the businesses in
which the fi lm intends
to compete and the
customers it intends
to serve.
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Some believe that vision and mission statements provide little value. One expert
believes, “Most vision statements are either too vague, too broad in scope, or riddled with
superlatives.”96 Clearly, vision and mission statements that are poorly developed do not
provide the direction a firm needs to take appropriate strategic actions. Still, as shown in
Figure 1.1, a firm’s vision and mission are critical aspects of the strategic inputs required
to engage in strategic actions that help to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn
above-average returns. Therefore, firms must accept the challenge of forming effective
vision and mission statements.
Stakeholders
Every organization involves a system of primary stakeholder groups with whom it estab-
lishes and manages relationships.97 Stakeholders are the individuals, groups, and organi-
zations who can affect the firm’s vision and mission, are affected by the strategic outcomes
achieved, and have enforceable claims on the firm’s performance.98 Claims on a firm’s
performance are enforced through the stakeholders’ ability to withhold participation
essential to the organization’s survival, competitiveness, and profitability.99 Stakeholders
continue to support an organization when its performance meets or exceeds their expec-
tations.100 Also, research suggests that firms that effectively manage stakeholder relation-
ships outperform those that do not. Stakeholder relationships can therefore be managed
to be a source of competitive advantage.101
Although organizations have dependency relationships with their stakeholders, they
are not equally dependent on all stakeholders at all times;102 as a consequence, not every
stakeholder has the same level of influence.103 The more critical and valued a stakehold-
er’s participation, the greater a firm’s dependency on it. Greater dependence, in turn,
gives the stakeholder more potential influence over a firm’s commitments, decisions, and
actions. Managers must find ways to either accommodate or insulate the organization
from the demands of stakeholders controlling critical resources.104
Classifications of Stakeholders
The parties involved with a firm’s operations can be separated into at least three groups.105
As shown in Figure 1.4, these groups are the capital market stakeholders (shareholders
and the major suppliers of a firm’s capital), the product market stakeholders (the firm’s
primary customers, suppliers, host communities, and unions representing the work-
force), and the organizational stakeholders (all of a firm’s employees, including both
non-managerial and managerial personnel).
Each stakeholder group expects those making strategic decisions in a firm to provide
the leadership through which its valued objectives will be reached.106 The objectives of
the various stakeholder groups often differ from one another, sometimes placing those
involved with a firm’s strategic management process in situations where trade-offs have to
be made. The most obvious stakeholders, at least in U.S. organizations, are shareholders—
individuals and groups who have invested capital in a firm in the expectation of earning
a positive return on their investments. These stakeholders’ rights are grounded in laws
governing private property and private enterprise.
In contrast to shareholders, another group of stakeholders—the firm’s customers—
prefers that investors receive a minimum return on their investments. Customers could
have their interests maximized when the quality and reliability of a firm’s products are
improved, but without high prices. High returns to customers, therefore, might come at
the expense of lower returns for capital market stakeholders.
Because of potential conflicts, each firm must carefully manage its stakeholders.
First, a firm must thoroughly identify and understand all important stakeholders.
Second, it must prioritize them in case it cannot satisfy all of them. Power is the most
critical criterion in prioritizing stakeholders. Other criteria might include the urgency
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of satisfying each particular stakeholder group and the degree of importance of each
to the firm.107
When the firm earns above-average returns, the challenge of effectively managing
stakeholder relationships is lessened substantially. With the capability and flexibility
provided by above-average returns, a firm can more easily satisfy multiple stakeholders
simultaneously. When the firm earns only average returns, it is unable to maximize the
interests of all stakeholders. The objective then becomes one of at least minimally satisfy-
ing each stakeholder.
Trade-off decisions are made in light of how important the support of each stake-
holder group is to the firm. For example, environmental groups may be very important
to firms in the energy industry but less important to professional service firms.108 A
firm earning below-average returns does not have the capacity to minimally satisfy all
stakeholders. The managerial challenge in this case is to make trade-offs that minimize
the amount of support lost from stakeholders. Societal values also influence the general
weightings allocated among the three stakeholder groups shown in Figure 1.4. Although
all three groups are served by firms in the major industrialized nations, the priorities
in their service vary because of cultural differences. Next, we present additional details
about each of the three major stakeholder groups.
Capital Market Stakeholders
Shareholders and lenders both expect a firm to preserve and enhance the wealth they
have entrusted to it. The returns they expect are commensurate with the degree of risk
accepted with those investments (i.e., lower returns are expected with low-risk invest-
ments while higher returns are expected with high-risk investments). Dissatisfied lend-
ers may impose stricter covenants on subsequent borrowing of capital. Dissatisfied
shareholders may reflect their concerns through several means, including selling their
Figure 1.4 The Three Stakeholder Groups
Stakeholders
People who are affected by a firm’s
performance and who have claims on
its performance
Capital Market Stakeholders
• Shareholders
• Major suppliers of capital
(e.g., banks)
Product Market Stakeholders
• Primary customers
• Suppliers
• Host communities
• Unions
Organizational Stakeholders
• Employees
• Managers
• Nonmanagers
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stock. Institutional investors (e.g., pension funds,
mutual funds) often are willing to sell their stock
if the returns are not what they desire, or take
actions to improve the firm’s performance such
as pressuring top managers to improve the gov-
ernance oversight by the board of directors.
Some institutions owning major shares of a firm’s
stock may have conflicting views of the actions
needed, which can be challenging for managers.
This is because some may want an increase in
returns in the short term while the others desire
a focus on building long-term competitiveness.109
Managers may have to balance their desires with
other shareholders or prioritize the importance
of the institutional owners with different goals.
Clearly shareholders who hold a large share of
stock (sometimes referred to as blockholders—see
Chapter 10 for more explanation) are influential,
especially in the determination of the firm’s capital structure (i.e., the amount of
equity versus the amount of debt used). Often large shareholders prefer that the
firm minimize its use of debt because of the risk of debt, its cost, and the possibility that
debt holders have first call on the firm’s assets in case of default over the shareholders.110
When a firm is aware of potential or actual dissatisfactions among capital market
stakeholders, it may respond to their concerns. The firm’s response to stakeholders who
are dissatisfied is affected by the nature of its dependency relationship with them (which,
as noted earlier, is also influenced by a society’s values). The greater and more signifi-
cant the dependency relationship is, the more likely a direct and significant response by
the firm. Before liquidating, Circuit City took several actions to try to satisfy its capital
market stakeholders. For example, it closed stores, changed the top management team,
and sought potential buyers.111 However, none of these actions allowed Circuit City to
meet the expectations of its capital market stakeholders, and it declared bankruptcy and
went out of business.
Product Market Stakeholders
Some might think that product market stakeholders (customers, suppliers, host com-
munities, and unions) share few common interests. However, all four groups can benefit
as firms engage in competitive battles. For example, depending on product and indus-
try characteristics, marketplace competition may result in lower product prices being
charged to a firm’s customers and higher prices being paid to its suppliers (the firm
might be willing to pay higher supplier prices to ensure delivery of the types of goods and
services that are linked with its competitive success).112
Customers, as stakeholders, demand reliable products at the lowest possible prices.
Suppliers seek loyal customers who are willing to pay the highest sustainable prices for the
goods and services they receive. Although all product market stakeholders are important,
without customers, the other product market stakeholders are of little value. Therefore,
the firm must try to learn about and understand current and potential customers.113 Host
communities want companies willing to be long-term employers and providers of tax
revenue without placing excessive demands on public support services. Union officials
are interested in secure jobs, under highly desirable working conditions, for employees
they represent. Thus, product market stakeholders are generally satisfied when a firm’s
profit margin reflects at least a balance between the returns to capital market stakehold-
ers (i.e., the returns lenders and shareholders will accept and still retain their interests in
the firm) and the returns in which they share.
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Employees—the firm’s organizational stakeholders—expect the firm to provide a
dynamic, stimulating, and rewarding work environment. As employees, we are usually
satisfied working for a company that is growing and actively developing our skills, espe-
cially those skills required to be effective team members and to meet or exceed global
work standards. Workers who learn how to use new knowledge productively are critical to
organizational success. In a collective sense, the education and skills of a firm’s workforce
are competitive weapons affecting strategy implementation and firm performance.114
Strategic leaders are ultimately responsible for serving the needs of organizational stake-
holders on a day-to-day basis. In fact, to be successful, strategic leaders must effectively
use the firm’s human capital.115 The importance of human capital to their success is likely
why outside directors are more likely to propose layoffs compared to inside strategic
leaders, while such insiders are likely to use preventative cost-cutting measures and seek
to protect incumbent employees.116 A highly important means of building employee skills
for the global competitive landscape is through international assignments. The process of
managing expatriate employees and helping them build knowledge can have significant
effects over time on the firm’s ability to compete in global markets.117
Strategic Leaders
Strategic leaders are people located in different areas and levels of the firm using the
strategic management process to select strategic actions that help the firm achieve its
vision and fulfill its mission. Regardless of their location in the firm, successful strategic
leaders are decisive, committed to nurturing those around them,118 and committed to
helping the firm create value for all stakeholder groups.119 In this vein, research evidence
suggests that employees who perceive that their CEO is a visionary leader also believe
that the CEO leads the firm to operate in ways that are consistent with the values of all
stakeholder groups rather than emphasizing only maximizing profits for shareholders.
In turn, visionary leadership helps to obtain extra effort by employees, thereby achieving
enhanced firm performance. These findings are consistent with the argument that “To
regain society’s trust … business leaders must embrace a way of looking at their role that
goes beyond their responsibility to the shareholder to include a civic and personal com-
mitment to their duty as institutional custodians.”120
When identifying strategic leaders, most of us tend to think of CEOs and other top-
level managers. Clearly, these people are strategic leaders. In the final analysis, CEOs
are responsible for making certain their firm effectively uses the strategic management
process. Indeed, the pressure on CEOs to manage strategically is stronger than ever.121
However, many other people help choose a firm’s strategy and then determine the actions
for successfully implementing it.122 The main reason is that the realities of twenty-first-
century competition that we discussed earlier in this chapter (e.g., the global economy,
globalization, rapid technological change, and the increasing importance of knowledge
and people as sources of competitive advantage) are creating a need for those “closest to
the action” to be making decisions and determining the actions to be taken.123 In fact, the
most effective CEOs and top-level managers understand how to delegate strategic respon-
sibilities to people throughout the firm who influence the use of organizational resources.
In fact, delegation also helps to avoid too much managerial hubris at the top and the
problems it causes, especially in situations allowing significant managerial discretion.124
Organizational culture also affects strategic leaders and their work. In turn, strategic
leaders’ decisions and actions shape a firm’s culture. Organizational culture refers to the
complex set of ideologies, symbols, and core values that are shared throughout the firm
and that influence how the firm conducts business. It is the social energy that drives—or
fails to drive—the organization.125 For example, Southwest Airlines is known for having
a unique and valuable culture. Its culture encourages employees to work hard but also to
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have fun while doing so. Moreover, its culture entails respect for others—employees and
customers alike. The firm also places a premium on service, as suggested by its commit-
ment to provide POS (Positively Outrageous Service) to each customer.
Some organizational cultures are a source of disadvantage. It is important for stra-
tegic leaders to understand, however, that whether the firm’s culture is functional or
dysfunctional, their effectiveness is influenced by that culture. The relationship between
organizational culture and strategic leaders’ work is reciprocal in that the culture shapes
the outcomes of their leadership while their leadership helps shape an ever-evolving
organizational culture.
The Work of Effective Strategic Leaders
Perhaps not surprisingly, hard work, thorough analyses, a willingness to be brutally hon-
est, a penchant for wanting the firm and its people to accomplish more, and tenacity
are prerequisites to an individual’s success as a strategic leader.126 In addition, strategic
leaders must have a strong strategic orientation while simultaneously embracing change
in the dynamic competitive landscape we have discussed.127 In order to deal with this
change effectively, strategic leaders must be innovative thinkers and promote innovation
in their organization.128 Promoting innovation is facilitated by a diverse top manage-
ment team representing different types of expertise and leveraging relationships with
external parties.129 Strategic leaders can best leverage partnerships with external parties
and organizations when their organizations are ambidexterous. That is, the organizations
simultaneously promote exploratory learning of new and unique forms of knowledge
and exploitative learning that adds incremental knowledge to existing knowledge bases,
allowing them to better understand and use their existing products.130 In addition, stra-
tegic leaders need to have a global mindset, or what some refer to as an ambicultural
approach to management.131
Strategic leaders, regardless of their location in the organization, often work long
hours, and their work is filled with ambiguous decision situations.132 However, the
opportunities afforded by this work are appealing and offer exciting chances to dream
and to act.133 The following words, given as advice to the late Time Warner chair and co-
CEO Steven J. Ross by his father, describe the opportunities in a strategic leader’s work:
There are three categories of people—the person who goes into the office, puts his feet
up on his desk, and dreams for 12 hours; the person who arrives at 5 a.m. and works for
16 hours, never once stopping to dream; and the person who puts his feet up, dreams for
one hour, then does something about those dreams.134
The operational term used for a dream that challenges and energizes a company is vision.
The most effective strategic leaders provide a vision as the foundation for the firm’s mis-
sion and subsequent choice and use of one or more strategies.
Predicting Outcomes of Strategic Decisions: Profit Pools
Strategic leaders attempt to predict the outcomes of their decisions before taking efforts
to implement them, which is difficult to do. Many decisions that are a part of the strategic
management process are concerned with an uncertain future and the firm’s place in that
future. As such, managers try to predict the effects on the firm’s profits of strategic deci-
sions that they are considering.135
Mapping an industry’s profit pool is something strategic leaders can do to anticipate
the possible outcomes of different decisions and to focus on growth in profits rather than
strictly growth in revenues. A profit pool entails the total profits earned in an industry at
all points along the value chain.136 (We explain the value chain in Chapter 3 and discuss
it further in Chapter 4.) Analyzing the profit pool in the industry may help a firm see
something others are unable to see and to understand the primary sources of profits in an
industry. There are four steps to identifying profit pools: (1) define the pool’s boundaries,
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For example, McDonald’s might desire to map the quick-service restaurant indus-
try’s profit pools. First, McDonald’s would need to define the industry’s boundaries and,
second, estimate its size (which is large, because McDonald’s operates in markets across
the globe). The net result of this is that McDonald’s tries to take market share away
from competitors such as Burger King and Wendy’s, and growth is more likely in inter-
national markets. Armed with information about its industry, McDonald’s could then
estimate the amount of profit potential in each part of the value chain (step 3). In the
quick-service restaurant industry, marketing campaigns and customer service are likely
more important sources of potential profits than are inbound logistics’ activities (see
Chapter 3). With an understanding of where the greatest amount of profits are likely to
be earned, McDonald’s would then be ready to select the strategy to use to be successful
where the largest profit pools are located in the value chain.138 As this brief discussion
shows, profit pools are a potentially useful tool to help strategic leaders recognize the
actions to take to increase the likelihood of increasing profits. Of course, profits made by
a firm and in an industry can be partially interdependent on the profits earned in adja-
cent industries.139 For example, profits earned in the energy industry can affect profits in
other industries (e.g., airlines). When oil prices are high, it can reduce the profits earned
in industries that must use a lot of energy to provide their goods or services.
The Strategic Management Process
As suggested by Figure 1.1, the strategic management process is a rational approach firms
use to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average returns. Figure 1.1 also
features the topics we examine in this book to present the strategic management process
to you.
This book is divided into three parts. In Part 1, we describe what firms do to analyze
their external environment (Chapter 2) and internal organization (Chapter 3). These
analyses are completed to identify marketplace opportunities and threats in the exter-
nal environment (Chapter 2) and to decide how to use the resources, capabilities, core
competencies, and competitive advantages in the firm’s internal organization to pursue
opportunities and overcome threats (Chapter 3). The analyses explained in Chapters 2
and 3 compose the well-known SWOT analyses (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
threats).140 With knowledge about its external environment and internal organization,
the firm forms its strategy taking into account the firm’s vision and mission.
The firm’s strategic inputs (see Figure 1.1) provide the foundation for choosing one
or more strategies and deciding how to implement them. As suggested in Figure 1.1 by
the horizontal arrow linking the two types of strategic actions, formulation and imple-
mentation must be simultaneously integrated to successfully use the strategic manage-
ment process. Integration happens as decision makers think about implementation issues
when choosing strategies and as they think about possible changes to the firm’s strategies
while implementing a currently chosen strategy.
In Part 2 of this book, we discuss the different strategies firms may choose to use. First,
we examine business-level strategies (Chapter 4). A business-level strategy describes the
actions a firm takes to exploit its competitive advantage over rivals. A company compet-
ing in a single product market (e.g., a locally owned grocery store operating in only one
location) has but one business-level strategy while a diversified firm competing in mul-
tiple product markets (e.g., General Electric) forms a business-level strategy for each of
its businesses. In Chapter 5, we describe the actions and reactions that occur among firms
in marketplace competition. Competitors typically respond to and try to anticipate each
other’s actions. The dynamics of competition affect the strategies firms choose as well as
how they try to implement the chosen strategies.141
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mining the businesses in which the company intends to compete as well as how to man-
age its different businesses. Other topics vital to strategy formulation, particularly in the
diversified company, include acquiring other businesses and, as appropriate, restructur-
ing the firm’s portfolio of businesses (Chapter 7) and selecting an international strategy
(Chapter 8). With cooperative strategies (Chapter 9), firms form a partnership to share
their resources and capabilities in order to develop a competitive advantage. Cooperative
strategies are becoming increasingly important as firms seek ways to compete in the
global economy’s array of different markets.142
To examine actions taken to implement strategies, we consider several topics in Part
3 of the book. First, we examine the different mechanisms used to govern firms (Chapter
10). With demands for improved corporate governance being voiced by many stake-
holders in the current business environment, organizations are challenged to learn how
to simultaneously satisfy their stakeholders’ different interests.143 Finally, the organi-
zational structure and actions needed to control a firm’s operations (Chapter 11), the
patterns of strategic leadership appropriate for today’s firms and competitive environ-
ments (Chapter 12), and strategic entrepreneurship (Chapter 13) as a path to continuous
innovation are addressed.
It is important to emphasize that primarily because they are related to how a firm
interacts with its stakeholders, almost all strategic management process decisions have
ethical dimensions.144 Organizational ethics are revealed by an organization’s culture;
that is to say, a firm’s decisions are a product of the core values that are shared by most
or all of a company’s managers and employees. Especially in the turbulent and often
ambiguous competitive landscape of the twenty-first century, those making decisions as
a part of the strategic management process are challenged to recognize that their deci-
sions affect capital market, product market, and organizational stakeholders differently
and to regularly evaluate the ethical implications of their decisions.145 Decision makers
failing to recognize these realities accept the risk of placing their firm at a competitive
disadvantage when it comes to consistently engaging in ethical business practices.146
As you will discover, the strategic management process examined in this book calls
for disciplined approaches to serve as the foundation for developing a competitive advan-
tage. These approaches provide the pathway through which firms will be able to achieve
strategic competitiveness and earn above-average returns. Mastery of this strategic man-
agement process will effectively serve you, our readers, and the organizations for which
you will choose to work.
■ Firms use the strategic management process to achieve
strategic competitiveness and earn above-average returns.
Strategic competitiveness is achieved when a firm develops
and implements a value-creating strategy. Above-average
returns (in excess of what investors expect to earn from other
investments with similar levels of risk) provide the foundation
needed to simultaneously satisfy all of a firm’s stakeholders.
■ The fundamental nature of competition is different in the cur-
rent competitive landscape. As a result, those making strate-
gic decisions must adopt a different mind-set, one that allows
them to learn how to compete in highly turbulent and chaotic
environments that produce a great deal of uncertainty. The
globalization of industries and their markets and rapid and
significant technological changes are the two primary factors
contributing to the turbulence of the competitive landscape.
■ Firms use two major models to help develop their vision and
mission and then choose one or more strategies in pursuit
of strategic competitiveness and above-average returns. The
core assumption of the I/O model is that the firm’s external
environment has a large influence on the choice of strategies
more than do the firm’s internal resources, capabilities, and
core competencies. Thus, the I/O model is used to under-
stand the effects an industry’s characteristics can have on a
firm when deciding what strategy or strategies with which to
compete against rivals. The logic supporting the I/O model
suggests that above-average returns are earned when the
firm locates an attractive industry or part of an industry and
successfully implements the strategy dictated by that indus-
try’s characteristics. The core assumption of the resource-
based model is that the firm’s unique resources, capabilities,
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and using strategies more than does the firm’s external
environment. Above-average returns are earned when the
firm uses its valuable, rare, costly-to-imitate, and nonsub-
stitutable resources and capabilities to compete against its
rivals in one or more industries. Evidence indicates that both
models yield insights that are linked to successfully selecting
and using strategies. Thus, firms want to use their unique
resources, capabilities, and core competencies as the foun-
dation to engage in one or more strategies that allow them
to effectively compete against rivals.
■ Vision and mission are formed to guide the selection of
strategies based on the information from the analyses of the
firm’s internal and external environments. Vision is a picture
of what the firm wants to be and, in broad terms, what it
wants to ultimately achieve. Flowing from the vision, the mis-
sion specifies the business or businesses in which the firm
intends to compete and the customers it intends to serve.
Vision and mission provide direction to the firm and signal
important descriptive information to stakeholders.
■ Stakeholders are those who can affect, and are affected by,
a firm’s strategic outcomes. Because a firm is dependent
on the continuing support of stakeholders (sharehold-
ers, customers, suppliers, employees, host communities,
etc.), they have enforceable claims on the company’s
performance. When earning above-average returns, a firm
has the resources it needs to at minimum simultaneously
satisfy the interests of all stakeholders. However, when earn-
ing only average returns, the firm must carefully manage its
stakeholders in order to retain their support. A firm earning
below-average returns must minimize the amount of support
it loses from unsatisfied stakeholders.
■ Strategic leaders are people located in different areas and
levels of the firm using the strategic management process to
help the firm achieve its vision and fulfill its mission. In gen-
eral, CEOs are responsible for making certain that their firms
properly use the strategic management process. The effective-
ness of the strategic management process is increased when it
is grounded in ethical intentions and behaviors. The strategic
leader’s work demands decision trade-offs, often among
attractive alternatives. It is important for all strategic leaders
and especially the CEO and other members of the top-man-
agement team to conduct thorough analyses of conditions
facing the firm, be brutally and consistently honest, and work
jointly to select and implement the correct strategies.
■ Strategic leaders predict the potential outcomes of their
strategic decisions. To do this, they must first calculate profit
pools in their industry (and adjacent industries as appropri-
ate) that are linked to value chain activities. Predicting the
potential outcomes of their strategic decisions reduces
the likelihood of the firm formulating and implementing
ineffective strategies.
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1. What are strategic competitiveness, strategy, competitive
advantage, above-average returns, and the strategic
management process?
2. What are the characteristics of the current competitive
landscape? What two factors are the primary drivers of this
landscape?
3. According to the I/O model, what should a firm do to earn
above-average returns?
4. What does the resource-based model suggest a firm should
do to earn above-average returns?
5. What are vision and mission? What is their value for the
strategic management process?
6. What are stakeholders? How do the three primary
stakeholder groups influence organizations?
7. How would you describe the work of strategic leaders?
8. What are the elements of the strategic management
process? How are they interrelated?
R E V I E W Q U E S T I O N S
EXERCISE 1: BUSINESS AND BLOGS
One element of industry structure analysis is the leverage that
buyers can exert on firms. Is technology changing the balance
of power between customers and companies? If so, how should
business respond?
Blogs offer a mechanism for consumers to share their experi-
ences—good or bad—regarding different companies. Bloggers
first emerged in the late 1990s, and today the Technorati search
engine monitors roughly 100 million blogs. With the wealth
of this “citizen media” available, what are the implications for
consumer power? One of the most famous cases of a blogger
drawing attention to a company was Jeff Jarvis of the Web site
http://www.buzzmachine.com. Jarvis, who writes on media top-
ics, was having problems with his Dell computer, and shared his
experiences on the Web. Literally thousands of other people
recounted similar experiences, and the phenomena became
known as “Dell hell.” Eventually, Dell created its own corpo-
rate blog in an effort to deflect this wave of consumer criticism.
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What are the implications of the rapid growth in blogs? Work in
a group on the following exercise.
Part One
Visit a corporate blog. Only a small percentage of large firms
maintain a blog presence on the Internet. Hint: Multiple wikis
online provide lists of such companies. A Web search using the
phrase “Fortune 500 blogs” will turn up several options. Review
the content of the firm’s blog. Was it updated regularly or not?
Multiple contributors or just one? What was the writing style? Did
it read like a marketing brochure, or something more informal?
Did the blog allow viewer comments, or post replies to consumer
questions?
Part Two
Based on the information you collected in the blog review,
answer the following questions:
■ Have you ever used blogs to help make decisions about some-
thing that you are considering purchasing? If so, how did the
blog material affect your decision? What factors would make you
more (or less) likely to rely on a blog in making your decision?
■ How did the content of corporate blogs affect your percep-
tion of that company and its goods and services? Did it make
you more or less likely to view the company favorably, or have
no effect at all?
■ Why do so few large companies maintain blogs?
EXERCISE 2: CREATING A SHARED VISION
Drawing on an analysis of internal and external constraints, firms
create a mission and vision as a cornerstone of their strategy. This
exercise will look at some of the challenges associated with creat-
ing a shared direction for the firm.
Part One
The instructor will break the class into a set of small teams. Half of the
teams will be given an “A” designation, and the other half assigned
as “B.” Each individual team will need to plan a time outside class to
complete Part 2; the exercise should take about half an hour.
Teams given the A designation will meet in a face-to-face
setting. Each team member will need paper and a pen or pen-
cil. Your meeting location should be free from distraction. The
location should have enough space so that no person can see
another’s notepad.
Teams given the B designation will meet electronically. You
may choose to meet through text messaging or IM. Be sure to con-
firm everyone’s contact information and meeting time beforehand.
Part Two
Each team member prepares a drawing of a real structure. It can
be a famous building, a monument, museum, or even your dorm.
Do not tell other team members what you drew.
Randomly select one team member. The goal is for everyone
else to prepare a drawing as similar to the selected team member
as possible. That person is not allowed to show his or her drawing to
the rest of the team. The rest of the group can ask questions about
the drawing, but only ones that can be answered “yes” or ”no.”
After 10 minutes, have everyone compare their drawings. If
you are meeting electronically, describe your drawings, and save
them for the next time your team meets face to face.
Next, select a second team member and repeat this process
again.
Part Three
In class, discuss the following questions:
■ How easy (or hard) was it for you to figure out the “vision” of
your team members?
■ Did you learn anything in the first iteration that made the sec-
ond drawing more successful?
■ What similarities might you find between this exercise and the
challenge of sharing a vision among company employees?
■ How did the communication structure affect your process and
outcomes?
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THE VALUE OF SETTING A LONG-TERM
STRATEGY
Anders Dahlvig/Group President and CEO/IKEA Services
IKEA is a brand famous for its focus on innovative solutions to the
business of selling high-quality, low-price home furnishings. Anders
Dahlvig, IKEA’s Group President and CEO, argues that long-term
strategic planning is a key to their success. For the financial year
ending August 2008, IKEA posted a 7 percent increase in sales over
the prior annual period, recording €21.2 billion in revenue. The firm
has more than 128,000 employees and operates in 24 countries.
Be prepared to discuss the following concepts and
questions in class:
Concept
■ Vision and mission
■ Long-term strategy
■ Stakeholders
■ Global economy
■ Strategic leaders
■ Organizational culture
Questions
1. What is this firm’s vision?
2. What is the firm’s mission or business idea?
3. Describe its competitive advantage. Why do you think com-
petitors have found this concept difficult to imitate?
4. What is in the news about this company?
5. Describe Anders Dahlvig as a strategic leader.
6. Do you believe Anders Dahlvig is constrained in his strategic
decision making because of the unique organizational culture
at IKEA, or is he free to create and implement strategic deci-
sions as he sees best for the firm?
V I D E O C A S E
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