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Integration and internalization of markets and corporation

2. Set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the long run performance of a corporation
3. Use of business practices to reduce a company's impact on the natural, physical environment
4. Monitoring, evaluating and disseminating of information to the external and internal environments to
key people within organization
5. Organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge
6. Organization is unable to adapt to change
7. Organization adapts to change and have ability to reshape their environment.
8. Organization adapt by imitating successful organization
9. Ability to shift from one dominant strategy to another
10. Organizations adapt defensively and use knowledge to improve their relationship with the
environment.
11. Development of long range plans for the effective management of environmental opportunities and
threats in light of organizational strengths and weaknesses.
12. Process in which corporate activities and performance results are monitored so that actual
performance can be compared to desired performance
13. End results of planned activity
14. Strategies and policies are put into action.
15. Form a comprehensive master plan that states how the corporation will achieve its mission and
objective.
16. Purpose or reason for the organizations' existence
17. Broad guidelines for decision makings that links the formulation if strategy with its implementation.
18. What organization would like to become
19. Revise or correct decisions based on performance
20. End result or organizational activities
21. Focuses on long run future of the organization
22. Something that acts as a stimulus for a change in strategy.
23. Provide checklist of questions, by area or issue that enables systematic analysis to be made of
various corporate functions and activities.
24. Using reactive solution rather than proactive
25. Strategy is based on a series of incremental commitment rather than through global formulation of
total strategies.
26. Uses reactive and proactive mode
27. Focus on opportunities.
28. Mankind's social that includes general forces that do not directly touch on short run activities
29. Regulate values, mores and customs of society
30. The natural resources, climate/weather that can affect the production or operation of the business.
31. allocate powers, provide laws and regulations
32. regulate exchange of materials, money, energy and information.
33. generate problem-solving inventions
34. in depth examination of key factors within a corporation’s task environment
35. elements or groups that directly affect a corporation and are affected by it.
36. willingness to reject unfamiliar as well as negative information
37. argument that there is no such thing…. Only an oxymoron
37. massive right-downs and restatements of profit; misclassification of expenses as capital
expenditures; pirating corporate assets for personal gain.
38. dominated by a few large form, each of which struggles to differentiate its products from those of
competition
39. no firm has large market share and each firm serves only a small piece of total market
40. product that appears to be different but can satisfy the same need as another product.
41. affect the industry by their ability to raise prices or reduce the quality of purchased goods or services
42. affect industry through their ability to force down prices, bargain for higher quality or more services
and play competitors against each other
43. operate in at least two different product market areas, one stable and one variable.
44. with limited product line that focuses on improving the efficiency of their existing operations
45. lack of consistent strategy – structure – culture relationship
46. with fairly broad product lines that focus on product innovation and market opportunities
47. Gathering information on companies competitors
48. free flowing ideas followed by triage
49. Map out 3 – 5 scenarios
50. Ask a lot of people
51. Hire a consultant
52. If things keep going the way they are going now
53. Trending, Curve fitting, etc.
54. businesses that operate worldwide
55. obstruction that makes it difficult for a company to enter an industry
56. set of business units or firms that “pursue similar strategies with similar resources”
57. Primarily coordinate their activities within regions
58. summarizes the key success factors within a particular industry
59. Variables that can significantly affect the overall competitive positions of companies within a
particular industry.
60. organization’s assets and are thus the basic building blocks of the organization
61. Corporations ability to exploit resources
62. organizational analysis; identifying and developing an organization’s resources and competencies
63. when capabilities are changed and reconfigured to make them more adaptive to an uncertain
environment.
64. competencies are superior to those of the competitor
65. collection of competencies that crosses divisional boundaries, is widespread within the organization,
and something that the corporation can do exceedingly well.
66. critical strengths and weaknesses that are likely to determine if firm will be able to take advantage of
opportunities while avoiding threats.
67. cross – functional integration and coordination of capabilities.
68. is the firm organized to exploit the resources?
69. Is it costly for other to imitate?
70. Do no other competitors possess it?
71. Does it provide customer value and competitive advantage?
72. Not easily communicated; deeply rooted in employee experience or in a corporation’s culture
73. knowledge that can be easily articulated and communicated
74. rate at which a firm’s underlying resources, capabilities, or core competencies depreciate or become
obsolete.
75. ability of competitors to use duplicate resources and capabilities to imitate the other firm’s success
76. speed at which other forms can understand the relationship of resources and capabilities supporting
a successful firm’ s strategy
77. ability of competitors to gather the resources and capabilities necessary to support competitive
challenge
78. rate at which a firm’s underlying resources, capabilities, or core competencies can be duplicated by
others.
79. company’s method for making money in the current business environment
80. provide a good or service that can be sold so that revenues exceed costs and expenses
81. systems integrator
82. entry level to high profit
83. Internet crash
84. many buyers and sellers
85. first to market
86. mature product/ low priced
87. propriety product
88. specialized niche
89. multi – products/spin-off
90. free product
91. Part of the chain that is most important to the company and point where is greatest expertise and
capabilities lie
92. linked set of value – creating activities that begin with basic raw materials coming from suppliers,
ending with distributors getting the final goods into hands of ultimate consumer
93. move forward or backward along the value chain in order to reduce costs, guarantee access to key
materials or to guarantee distribution
94. Large corporation with many products in several related industries
95. functional specialists; medium sized firm with several products line is one industry
96. few products, small firm with one or two product line.
97. units throughout an organization share a common culture
98. collection of beliefs, expectations, and values learned and shared by corporation’s members and
transmitted from one generation of employees to others.
99. holding company; large companies with many product lines in several unrelated industries
100. (group of) divisions composed of independent product market segments that are given primary
responsibility and authority for management of own functional areas.
101. members of unit accepts the norms, values, or other culture content associated with the unit.
102. graph showing time plotted against the monetary sales of a product as it moves from introduction
through growth and maturity to decline
103. name given to a company’s products which identifies that item in the mind of the consumers
104. ratio of total debt to total assets
105. particular combination of key variables under corporation’s control that can be use to effect
demand and to gain competitive advantage
106. selection of specific areas for marketing concentration and can be expressed in terms of market,
product and geographic locations
107. what niches to seek, which new types of products to develop and how to ensure a company’s many
products do not directly compete with one another.
108. widely held perception of company be general public
109. type of brand in which the company’s name serves as a brand
110. analyzing and ranking of possible investments in fixed assets.
111. Spending as a % of sales
112. Process of taking a new technology form a laboratory to the market place
113. ability to develop and innovate
114. theoretical research leading to patents and publication
115. product and packaging development focused on sales and profit increase
116. concentrating on manufacturing quality and efficiency
117. mix in the workplace of people from different races, cultures, and backgrounds
118. suggest that unit production costs decline by some fixed percentage (20% - 30%) each time the total
accumulated volume of production in units doubles
119. item is processed sequentially and the work and sequence of process vary
120. laid out as lines on which products can be continuously assembled or process
121. information network within an organization that also has access to the external worldwide Internet
122. information network within an organization that is available to key suppliers and customers
123. permits the low-volume output of custom – tailored product at relatively low unit costs through
economies of scope
124. the low – cost production of individually customized goods and service