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Strategic Management: Strategies, Deliberate Or Emergent

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ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES
(MBA) B 820 _ STRATEGY (TMA ONE)_ TUTOR MARKING ASSESSMENT _ Fall, 2014
TMA ONE: Answer
Bader Abdullah AL-Sumri (130348)

Question 1: strategies, deliberate or emergent

1) Introduction
Planning, and particularly strategic planning, has been characterized as a learning process. However, in practice, the extent to which strategic planning constitutes a learning process seems to vary widely. Some authors argue that formalized strategic planning processes discourage learning and may thus be counterproductive to the effectiveness of planning. Despite the importance of strategic planning for management, little empirical evidence has been …show more content…

It can thus be seen as “a process by which managers discover where they are, where they want to go, how they believe they might get there, if they are getting there, and, as they proceed, if they still want to get there”. To do this efficiently and effectively, planning must take into account both the company’s complexity and its relevant environment. It does so in many ways, which include forming different levels of planning.
Effectiveness of anticipation: The starting point for strategic planning is anticipating an action. The results of this process are plans (outcome-based instructions). The effectiveness of anticipation indicates whether planning is pointed in the right direction.
Effectiveness of implementation: To put strategic plans into practice, the plans must be coordinated and communicated to executives in an appropriate way. Here, “implementation” refers to all such measures within the context of the strategic planning process. The effectiveness of implementation describes to what extent objectives, which were anticipated during the planning process, are actually …show more content…

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