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Chapter 5 Strategies in Action

Chapter 5 Strategies in Action. Integration Strategies. Forward Integration Backward Integration Horizontal Integration. Vertical Integration Strategies. Integration Strategies. Vertical Integration strategies – Allow a firm to gain control over: Distributors Suppliers competitors.

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Chapter 5 Strategies in Action

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  1. Chapter 5Strategies in Action

  2. Integration Strategies Forward Integration Backward Integration Horizontal Integration Vertical Integration Strategies

  3. Integration Strategies Vertical Integration strategies – • Allow a firm to gain control over: • Distributors • Suppliers • competitors

  4. Integration Strategies Forward Integration – • Gaining ownership or increased control over distributors or retailers

  5. Integration Strategies Guidelines for Forward Integration – • Present distributors are expensive, unreliable, or incapable of meeting firm’s needs • Availability of quality distributors is limited • When firm competes in an industry that is expected to grow markedly • Organization has both capital and human resources needed to manage new business of distribution • Advantages of stable production are high • Present distributors have high profit margins

  6. Integration Strategies Backward Integration – • Seeking ownership or increased control of a firm’s suppliers

  7. Integration Strategies Guidelines for Backward Integration – • When present suppliers are expensive, unreliable, or incapable of meeting needs • Number of suppliers is small and number of competitors large • High growth in industry sector • Firm has both capital and human resources to manage new business • Advantages of stable prices are important • Present supplies have high profit margins

  8. Integration Strategies Horizontal Integration – • Seeking ownership or increased control over competitors

  9. Integration Strategies Guidelines for Horizontal Integration – • Firm can gain monopolistic characteristics without being challenged by federal government • Competes in growing industry • Increased economies of scale provide major competitive advantages • Faltering due to lack of managerial expertise or need for particular resources

  10. Intensive Strategies Market Penetration Market Development Product Development Intensive Strategies

  11. Intensive Strategies Intensive strategies – • Require intensive efforts to improve a firm’s competitive position with existing products

  12. Intensive Strategies Market Penetration – • Seeking increased market share for present products or services in present markets through greater marketing efforts

  13. Intensive Strategies Guidelines for Market Penetration – • Current markets not saturated • Usage rate of present customers can be increased significantly • Market shares of competitors declining while total industry sales increasing • Increased economies of scale provide major competitive advantages

  14. Intensive Strategies Market Development – • Introducing present products or services into new geographic area

  15. Intensive Strategies Guidelines for Market Development – • New channels of distribution that are reliable, inexpensive, and good quality • Firm is very successful at what it does • Untapped or unsaturated markets • Capital and human resources necessary to manage expanded operations • Excess production capacity • Basic industry rapidly becoming global

  16. Intensive Strategies Product Development – • Seeking increased sales by improving present products or services or developing new ones

  17. Intensive Strategies Guidelines for Product Development – • Products in maturity stage of life cycle • Competes in industry characterized by rapid technological developments • Major competitors offer better-quality products at comparable prices • Compete in high-growth industry • Strong research and development capabilities

  18. Diversification Strategies Concentric Diversification Conglomerate Diversification Horizontal Diversification Diversification Strategies

  19. Diversification Strategies Diversification strategies – • Becoming less popular as organizations are finding it more difficult to manage diverse business activities

  20. Diversification Strategies Concentric Diversification – • Adding new, but related, products or services

  21. Diversification Strategies Guidelines for Concentric Diversification – • Competes in no- or slow-growth industry • Adding new & related products increases sales of current products • New & related products offered at competitive prices • Current products are in decline stage of the product life cycle • Strong management team

  22. Diversification Strategies Conglomerate Diversification – • Adding new, unrelated products or services

  23. Diversification Strategies Guidelines for Conglomerate Diversification – • Declining annual sales and profits • Capital and managerial talent to compete successfully in a new industry • Financial synergy between the acquired and acquiring firms • Exiting markets for present products are saturated

  24. Diversification Strategies Horizontal Diversification – • Adding new, unrelated products or services for present customers

  25. Diversification Strategies Guidelines for Horizontal Diversification – • Revenues from current products/services would increase significantly by adding the new unrelated products • Highly competitive and/or no-growth industry w/low margins and returns • Present distribution channels can be used to market new products to current customers • New products have counter cyclical sales patterns compared to existing products

  26. Defensive Strategies Retrenchment Divestiture Liquidation Defensive Strategies

  27. Defensive Strategies Retrenchment – • Regrouping through cost and asset reduction to reverse declining sales and profit

  28. Defensive Strategies Guidelines for Retrenchment – • Firm has failed to meet its objectives and goals consistently over time but has distinctive competencies • Firm is one of the weaker competitors • Inefficiency, low profitability, poor employee morale, and pressure from stockholders to improve performance. • When an organization’s strategic managers have failed • Very quick growth to large organization where a major internal reorganization is needed

  29. Defensive Strategies Divestiture – • Selling a division or part of an organization

  30. Defensive Strategies Guidelines for Divestiture – • When firm has pursued retrenchment but failed to attain needed improvements • When a division needs more resources than the firm can provide • When a division is responsible for the firm’s overall poor performance • When a division is a misfit with the organization • When a large amount of cash is needed and cannot be obtained from other sources.

  31. Recent Divestitures

  32. Defensive Strategies Liquidation– • Selling all of a company’s assets, in parts, for their tangible worth

  33. Defensive Strategies Guidelines for Liquidation – • When both retrenchment and divestiture have been pursued unsuccessfully • If the only alternative is bankruptcy, liquidation is an orderly alternative • When stockholders can minimize their losses by selling the firm’s assets

  34. Means for Achieving Strategies Joint Venture/Partnering – • Two or more companies form a temporary partnership or consortium for purpose of capitalizing on some opportunity.

  35. Means for Achieving Strategies Cooperative Arrangements – • Research and development partnerships • Cross-distribution agreements • Cross-licensing agreements • Cross-manufacturing agreements • Joint-bidding consortia

  36. Means for Achieving Strategies Mergers and Acquisitions - Merger – two organizations of about equal size unit to form one enterprise. Acquisition – one company purchases another company.

  37. Porter’s Generic Strategies Defined Cost Leadership A Strategy Aimed at Producing Standardized Products at Low Per-Unit Cost for Consumers Who are Price-Sensitive Differentiation A Strategy Aimed at Producing Products and Services Considered Unique Industrywide and Directed at Consumers Who are Relatively Price-Insensitive ©1999 Prentice Hall

  38. Porter’s Generic Strategies (continued) Focus A Strategy Aimed at Producing Products and Services That Fulfill the Needs of Small Groups of Customers ©1999 Prentice Hall

  39. Who Should Use Strategic Management • All firms, from large to small, profit and nonprofit, and government organizations.

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