Although the purpose of strategic planning is straightforward to outline where an organization wants to go and how it’s going to get there its nature is complex and dynamic. Two techniques, the critical success factor (CSF) method and future scenario planning, can augment strategic planning efforts by illuminating an organization’s present situation and potential future. This paper explores the...

Value is often perceived differently by the proponents of new information technologies and those who allocate resources and define priorities. Such differences often become a roadblock to meeting true business needs. Project justifications regularly rely on calculated cost savings, which rarely measure the full benefit of new technologies. In fact, if cost savings provide a complete picture, th...

The two experiments presented here study perceptual processes implemented by chess players in situations related to their domain of expertise. The aim was to determine how patterns are perceived as a function of their strategic value when players acquire expertise. In this study, conducted on novice and more experienced players, it is hypothesized that with acquisition of expertise players woul...

Over the last decade much attention has been focused upon strategic factors influencing corporate financing decisions, especially those relating to informational problems. The results of this research have primarily been suggestive--proposing possible explanations of phenomena, but not providing specific methods for incorporating the strategic factors into quantitative valuation techniques and ...

Value systems are strategic management tools aimed at supporting the definition and assessment of organisational strategies towards successful value creation processes. Value systems aim to identify the value generation objects available in an organisation to respond to business opportunities and innovate in order to remain competitive in the market. Also, value systems support governance model...

In an oligopoly context the present technological choice of a firm which expects to receive private revelant information just prior to the uncertain market stage has both a flexibility value and a strategic commitmenr value. In contrast to some common wisdom ideas we provide a natural two-stage competition framework in which an increase in uncertainty always raises the commitment value of the t...

Strategic sourcing is critical for firms practicing the principles of supply chain management. strategic sourcing process pdf It specifically deals with managing the.Strategic Sourcing: Trends and Emerging Issues for Research. Strategic sourcing it will be useful to first understand the methodology and the steps adopted in.Strategic Sourcing Methodology. strategic sourcing process ppt Five core...

This essay addresses two questions: "How does sustained strategic alignment create value and provide competitive advantage for a firm?" and "How can strategic alignment that is sustained over time be conceptualized and quantified?" We build on the Dynamic Capabilities Framework and suggest that an organization’s ability to achieve a high degree of strategic alignment is an enduring competency...