07 September 2008

Strategic Management Dynamics - Chapter 2 - Resources drive performance.

This Chapter starts by establishing the importance of rigorous causal analysis – pushing back from top-level performance outcomes through the logical chain of causality that accounts for those outcomes. This process ultimately exposes the fundamental relationship between resources and demand, revenues, costs and profits. The Chapter shows how equivalent principles operate in public services and voluntary organisations. This resource-driven perspective is compared with other approaches to understanding and forecasting performance. Links are made to the industry-forces view of performance, cost-leadership and differentiation, the value-curve approach and the resource-based view of strategy (RBV).

This Chapter includes connections to the following Strategy concepts: Value-Curve, Value Chain, Generic Strategies, Industry Forces and Vision & Mission.

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Class lecture segments 2.0 to 2.4.
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