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Chapter Nine
Chapter Objectives
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Describe a practical framework for evaluating strategies. Explain why strategy evaluation is complex, sensitive, and yet essential for organizational success. Discuss the importance of contingency planning in strategy evaluation. Discuss the role of auditing in strategy evaluation. Discuss the Balanced Scorecard. Discuss three twenty-first-century challenges in strategic management.
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Consistency and
feasibility are largely based on an internal assessment
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A Few Big Company Household Names That Disappeared Over Past Years
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A Strategy-Evaluation Framework
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Corrective Actions
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Contingency Planning
If a major competitor withdraws from
particular markets as intelligence reports indicate, what actions should our firm take? If our sales objectives are not reached, what actions should our firm take to avoid profit losses?
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Contingency Planning
If demand for our new product exceeds
plans, what actions should our firm take to meet the higher demand? If certain disasters occur, what actions should our firm take? If a new technological advancement makes our new product obsolete sooner than expected, what actions should our firm take?
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Auditing
Auditing
a systematic process of objectively obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events to ascertain the degree of correspondence between these assertions and established criteria, and communicating the results to interested users
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