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Noida
ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGIES -
STRUCTURE
Siva
Naman
Vivek Shweta
Vikas Sonam
TEAM
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Sudip Surabhi
Sthitija Vakul
Tueny
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Noida
WHAT IS STRATEGY
The specific patterns of decision and action that managers take to sue core
competency to achieve a competitive advantage
The long term action plan
The game plan
Company or organization direction
What we’re doing
The plan to achieve competitive advantage
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Noida
“HOW’S” OF STRATEGY
How to please customers
How to respond to changing market Conditions
How to outcompete rivals
How to grow the business
How to manage each functional piece of the business and develop
needed organizational capabilities
How to achieve strategic and financial objectives
How to balance short term and long term
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Noida
TYPES OF STRATEGIES
Functional level
Business level
Corporate level
Global expansion
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Noida
Functional Level Strategy
Plan of action to strengthen an organization’s functional & resources, as well as
its coordination abilities in order to create core competences.
Low cost and differentiation advantages
VALUE CREATING SOURCE OF LOW SOURCE OF
FUNCTION COST ADVANTAGE DIFFERENTIATION
ADVANTAGE
MANUFACTURING Develop skills in flexible Increase in product quality
manufacturing technology & reliability
HRM Reduction turnover and Hiring of highly skills
absenteeism personal
Material Management Use JIT Long term relation with
suppliers & customers
Improved of efficiency of •Creation of new product
R& D
manufacturing Technology •Improvement of existing
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FUNCTIONAL LEVEL STRATEGY AND Noida
STRUCTURE
More emphasis on manufacturing
Tall hierarchy, centralized ,Mechanistic structure
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FUNCTIONAL LEVEL STRATEGY AND Noida
STRUCTURE
More emphasis on sales
manu
sales R&D
factur
ing
Flat decentralized , mutual adjustment
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FUNCTIONAL LEVEL STRATEGY AND Noida
STRUCTURE
More emphasis on R&D
Man
R&D
ufac Sales
turin
g
Flat, decentralized, coordination between human and technical
resources
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Noida
BUSINESS LEVEL STRATEGY
• Plan to combine functional core competences in order to position the
organization so that it has a competitive advantage in its domain.
Matrix ,Product team Product market geographic, functional
Differentiation Low cost
Complex SIMPLE
Centralized
Decentralized
Low differentiation
High differentiation
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Noida
CORPORATE LEVEL STRATEGY
CEO
Corporate
HQ
A division B division C division
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Noida
GLOBAL STRATEGY
International strategy adopts a different route to global expansion
Plan involves choosing the best strategy to expand into overseas markets to
obtain scarce resources & develop core competences
Global strategy can play a crucial role in strengthening a company’s control
over its environment
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Noida
GLOBAL STRATEGY - STRUCTURE
Global Geographic Strategy
Global Matrix Strategy
Global Product Group Strategy
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Noida
GLOBAL GEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE
• Each region of a country or area of the world is served by a self-contained
division
• Managers locate different divisions in each of the world regions where the
organization operates
•Generally, occurs when managers are pursuing a multi-domestic strategy
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GLOBAL MATRIX STRUCTURE
An organizational structure that simultaneously groups people and resources
by function and product
- The structure is very flexible and can respond rapidly to the need for
change
- Each employee has two bosses (functional manager and product manager)
and possibly cannot satisfy both
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Noida
GLOBAL PRODUCT GROUP
STRUCTURE
• Each product division, not the country or regional managers, takes
responsibility for deciding where to manufacture its products and how to
market them in foreign countries
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PRODUCT TEAM STRUCTURE
Members are permanently assigned to a cross-functional team and report
only to the product team manager or to one of his subordinates
Cross-functional team – group of managers brought together from different
departments to perform organizational tasks
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THE ORGANIZATIONAL
ENVIRONMENT
Human Resources
Managers must take into account all four factors
(environment, strategy, technology and human resources) when
designing the structure of the organization.
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Noida
ENVIRONMENT
The quicker the environmental changes, the more problems face managers
Structure must be more flexible when the environmental change is rapid
Different strategies require the use of different structures
A differentiation strategy needs a flexible structure, low cost may need a
more formal structure
Increased vertical integration or diversification also requires a more
flexible structure
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TECHNOLOGY
Technology
The combination of
skills, knowledge, tools, equipment, computers and machines
used in the organization
More complex technology makes it harder for managers to
regulate the organization
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