Strategic management challenges

• Organizations face several strategic challenges that can

only be addressed and utilized if the organization is
managed strategically. The most important of these
challenges:
1. Increase the speed of changes
2. Increased competition
3. Changing the structure of employment
Strategic management challenges
1. Scarcity of resources
2. Concern for the environment
3. increased importance of strategy
dimensions of strategic management
• The core dimensions of strategic management are three
fundamental pillars, the following of which are given
below:
1. Strategic thinking and strategic decision-making skills
2. strategic planning
3. strategic implementation
dimensions of strategic management
• Some of the most important requirements for
implementing the strategy are:
• Annual Objectives
• Policy formulation
• Distribution and allocation of resources
• Building and creating the appropriate organizational
structure
what are the main dimensions of the
strategic management
• There are four dimension of the strategic
management which are:-
1. Economic Dimensions
2. Political Dimension .
3. The organizational Dimensions
What is the economic dimensions for the strategic
management included?
• Economic Dimensions is included :-
What is the organization wish to do.
- Formulating the goals.
- Setting goals.
What is an business organization.
- Analyzing of environment .
- Evaluation of the organization resources.
- Estimating the gap planning .
What is the economic dimensions for the strategic
management included?
What would the organization went to do.
- Formulate strategies and policies.
- Assessment strategies and policies.

- What is the organization doing .

- Choose the appropriate strategy.
- Building programs and plans and budgets.
What is the political dimensions for the strategic
management included?
• Political Dimension is included :-
• It is included the Knowledge of stakeholders and their
relationship :
• Who is the stakeholder .
- Identify the stakeholder.
- Analysis the linkage.
• What can the stakeholder do .
- Analysis of the internal and external influences.
- Evaluation of the political systems.
- Determining the resources of the stakeholder.
What is the organizational dimensions for the
strategic management included?
• The organizational Dimension is included :-
• What type of organization.
- The degree of centralization .
- Determine the size of units.
- Division of labor .
- Select the methods for coordination.
- Development of the information systems.
• What is the stages and procedures of industry
decisions.
- Choose the kind of plans.
- Limit of time .
- Determining the contents of the plan.
What is the organizational dimensions for the
strategic management included?
• What kind of motivation .
- System development .
• What kind of control.
- Control levels.
- Kind of control.
What is the main levels which used the strategic
management ?
• There are three levels which used the strategic
management which are :-
•
1. The Organizational level .
2. The Business level .
3. The Functional level .
What are the main challenges of strategic
Management?
Business organizations faced a lot of challenges •
and it become the integrated and comprehensive approach
to deal with the many challenges faced to business
organizations which are :-
1. Strategic management and global issues challenge.
2. Strategic management and quality issues challenge
3. Strategic management and social and moral Issues
challenge
4. Strategic management and the revolution of information
and knowledge challenge
5. Strategic management and dealing with the shortage of
resources challenge
What are the main challenges of strategic
Management?
6. Strategic management and virtual organizations
challenge.
7. Strategic management and other challenges
What is the Strategic management and global
issues challenge ?
• The Strategic management and global issues
challenge is:-
• In recent years, the activities of organizations across
the international border.
• Globalization have an effect on different
organizations, even those that do not have
international operations.
• Therefore, the organizations must take the global
issues within their future strategy through future
operations.
• Their managers must be familiar with international
variables that affect positively or negatively in the
work of the organization.
What is the Strategic management and global
issues challenge ?
• Globalization is not always a negative trend and
threats points of the organization, but it can be a
support for the many points that can be a benefit for
business organizations.
• Globalization is the positive opportunities for the
organization if it knew how to deal positively with it
(eg / western and Japanese cooperation such as
global integration companies) , Arabs companies are
still far from this trend.
What is the Strategic management and quality
issues challenge
• The strategic management and quality issues
challenge is :-
• Quality is the main dimension from the global
environment.
• The period 1990 - 2000 of the last century witnessed
the increasing attention to quality.
• This attention focus to move the old concept of
quality (quality control) to the modern concept of
quality called ((Overall organizational commitment to
increase the value which received from the client or
customer and services produced by the organization
)) .
What is the Strategic management andsocial and
moral issues challenge ?
• The strategic management and social and moral
Issues challenge is :-
• New period required a set of moral and social values
that the organization must take it in their operations
in order to keep it with in the current required .
What is the Strategic management and the revolution of
information and knowledge challenge ?
• The strategic management and the revolution of
information and knowledge challenge is :-
• The knowledge is a scarce resource in today's world.
• The idea of ​the strategic dependent on what the
ideas we have not on the resource we have .
• Strategic management is very important in the field of
knowledge.
• The ideas that the organization can be put or
developed become the main factor in building their
wealth and value
• Strategic management is responding to all these
challenges.
What is the Strategic management and the revolution of
information and knowledge challenge ?
• Many studies indicated that the information and
communication technology represented significant
challenges to business organizations which require
from the strategic management in organization to
deal with it through new methods and ways .
What is the Strategic management and dealing with the
shortage of resources challenge ?

• The Strategic management and dealing with the

shortage of resources challenge is :-
• There is no resource in the world is not characterized
of scarcity and shortage as a result of the use.

• Not far water and air are not a scarcity and shortage
resources. but now it become an expensive and
scarcity which need high costs to address its
problems .
What is the Strategic management and dealing with the
shortage of resources challenge ?

• So the question is how can the strategic management

make programming to use their resources in rational
ways and also , how can the strategic management
contribute in the renewal of their resources in order to
achieve the organization's competitive advantage.
What is the Strategic management and virtual organizations
challenge ?

• The strategic management and virtual organizations

challenge is :-
• Virtual organizations are the intangible organizations
or do not have a physical presence.
• These organizations operate within the fast-changing
strategies and in the so far regions geographically and
spatially , so it need a new methods for their work .
• Strategic management in these organizations must be
have a scientific and knowledge base .
What are the Strategic management and other challenges ?

• The strategic management and other challenges are :-

• There are other challenges for the business
organizations which need from top management work to
deal with it and to find solutions of them as following :-
- Increase the national and international competition.
- Rapid changes in the technological and the political,
social, cultural conditions.
- Rapid change in the tastes and needs of customers
- Rapid change in market conditions.
- Shortage of the life cycle of the product.
- Rapid ​changes on the local and global levels.
How many models in the strategic management , and what
are they ?

There are three models for the strategic management as

following :-
First :- Set of Standard Models : •
Daived, / Harvey,/ sharplin
Second :- Set of realistic models ( operation ):-
From :- Hunger and Wheelen , 2006/ Justin, / Wright,
Third :- Set of Balanced models •
From :- Glueck, / McCarthy,
What are the characteristics of these models :-
Standard Models .
Realistic Models .
A balanced Models .
The characteristics of standard model are :- •
1. Under these models organization work to identifying
these points ( Vision , Mission , Objectives ) before
starting to analyzing of their environment ( external
and internal ) to identifying the opportunities and
threats and the strength and weakness points
Departure from the future image of the organization .
2. Give the top management more freedom to achieve the
desired objectives .
What are the characteristics of these models :-
Standard Models .
Realistic Models .
A balanced Models .
3. These models based largely on the experiences of the
top management .
4. Also, it based on the idealism philosophy .
5. The participation of specialists come later.
What are the characteristics of these models :-
Standard Models .
Realistic Models .
A balanced Models .
• The characteristics of realistic model are :-
1. These models start with identify and analysis the
external and internal environment of the organization
2. Capacity as realism .
3. Link between the future image which like to be the
organization and the possibilities of organization.
4. Limited the role of top management .
5. More works come from the specialists in organization.
6. Give the realistic answers .
7. It based on the realistic philosophy .
What are the characteristics of these models :-
Standard Models .
Realistic Models .
A balanced Models .
• The characteristics of balanced models are :-
1. At these model the organization had tried to mix
between both models in same time in order to do :-
• (( Free and creative thinking for top management
+ Realistic analysis of the organization
environment , external and internal ))
• This models are more realistic and accept .
2. Roles balance ( philosophy of management
+ works of specialists ).
What is the strategic directions in the subjects of the
Vision , Mission and Values of the organization ?

The strategic direction start from two directions :-

( Peter,995, Collins,996, Porras,996, Marsy,2002 , Norton ,
2001, Niven , 2002 , Kaplan , 2001 )
The first direction :-
• Determine the future vision of the organization and there
for the context of the mission , which represent the
reason for the existence of business organization . In the
context of the vision and mission of the organization do
to determine the values of the organization which deals
with internal and external environment , then derived
goals and objectives of the various administrative levels.
What is the strategic directions in the subjects of the
Vision , Mission and Values of the organization ?

• The second direction :-

• Determine the organization's mission and then
determine the vision of organization , then derived the
goals and objectives .
 How can we seen at the vision of the organization ?

• The vision can be seen in the following :-

• First :-
Vision is the realization :-
• It gives the impression of the current situation . It is
realization for the kind of environment in which that the
management aspires within the period of time .
• Second :-
The Vision is Forecasting :-
• Creation the image form for the future events ( where
will the organization go later ).