strategic management

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(STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW)

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Strategic management is the comprehensive collection of ongoing activities and processes that organizations use to systematically coordinate and align resources and actions with mission, vision and strategy throughout an organization. Strategic management activities transform the static plan into a system that provides strategic performance feedback to decision making and enables the plan to evolve and grow as requirements and other circumstances change.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROCESS

It means defining the organization's strategy. It is also defined as the process by which managers make a choice of a set of strategies for the organization that will enable it to achieve better performance. Strategic management is a continuous process that appraises the business and industries in which the organization is involved; appraises its competitors; and fixes goals to meet the entire present and future competitor's and then reassesses each strategy.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROCESS HAS FOUR STEPS: 1.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING

Environmental scanning refers to process of collecting, scrutinizing and providing information for strategic purposes. It helps in analyzing the internal and external factors influencing an organization. After executing the environmental analysis process, management should evaluate it on a continuous basis and strive to improve it.

2. STRATEGY FORMULATION

Strategy formulation is the process of deciding best course of action for accomplishing organizational objectives and hence achieving organizational purpose. After conducting environment scanning, managers formulate corporate, business and functional strategies.

3. STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION

Strategy implementation implies the strategy works as intended or putting the organizations chosen strategy into action. Strategy implementation includes designing the organization's structure, distributing resources, developing decision making process, and managing human resources.

4. STRATEGY EVALUATION

Strategy evaluation is the final step of strategy management process. The key strategy evaluation activities are: appraising internal and external factors that are the root of present strategies,