Business
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What is Strategy?
- Level:
- AS, A Level
- Board:
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB
Last updated 28 Jul 2019
Business strategy is all about the choices that business make about about how to achieve their objectives.
Johnson and Scholes define strategy as:
"...the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations".
In other words, strategy is about:
- Where is the business trying to get to in the long-term (strategic direction)
- Which markets should a business compete in and what kind of activities are involved in such markets?
- How the business perform better than its competition in those markets?
- What resources (skills, assets, finance, relationships, technical competence, facilities) are required in order to be able to compete?
- What external, environmental factors affect the businesses' ability to compete?
- What are the values and expectations of the stakeholders who have interest in and power over the business
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