Strat.

It is a collection of resources that are linked together to transform inputs into outputs.

• Organizational Structure

• Organization

• Organizational

• Steady-State Activity

What are four different types of organizational activities?

• Steady-state Activities

• Functional Work Activities

• Innovation Activities

• Crisis Activities

• Policy-Making Activities

·         They are responsible for planning, coordinating, and appraising the activities of the quasi-autonomous divisions.

• General office or headquarters (HQ’s)

• Divisional departmental HQ’s

• Field units

• Division's central office

It involves the actual buying, selling, processing, or transporting of goods. In Chandler's model, strategy development is largely the responsibility of the general office.

• Organizational Structure

• Functional Work

• Period of Evolution

• Foundation and Growth

In this structure, the prime coordinating mechanism is direct supervision by the strategic apex.

• Divisional Structure

• Functional Structure

• Simple Structure

• Matrix Structure

In this style, companies try to position themselves between financial control companies and strategic planning companies.

• Financial Control Style

• Strategic Planning Style

• Management Style

• Strategic Control Style

In this characteristic of Strategy Development, it assume that deliberate strategies can emerge from plans developed by the central leadership.

• Ideological strategies

• Process strategies

• Umbrella strategies

• Planned strategies

Characteristic of Strategic Development, it originate outside the organization through the explicit imposition of the wishes of outside bodies, or implicitly by constraints on managerial choices.

• Process strategies

• Imposed strategies

• Unconnected strategies

• Process strategies

These assume that deliberate strategies can emerge from plans developed by the central leadership.

• Process strategies

• Consensus strategies

• Planned strategies

• Umbrella strategies

These activities establish relationships between organization members so that they know their places and roles in the organization

• Stories

• Rituals and routines

• Symbols

• Power structures