Strategic Business Analysis and Organizational Culture: Essays and Insights

This collection of essays and insights from Desklib explores the relationship between strategic business analysis and organizational culture. The first essay delves into strategy processes and development, while the second essay focuses on the impact of culture on strategy development, employee engagement, and competition advantages. The essays draw on a range of sources, including academic journals and case studies, to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic.

BUS2002 STRATEGIC
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ESSAY 1..........................................................................................................................................3
ESSAY 2..........................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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ESSAY 1
Strategy Processes and Development
The organization process and development is referring as the hold the process of the
management that helps in shape, support, inform the strategic decisions which are confronting
the business organization. The company adopted the term such as strategic developments for
many reasons. The strategic development process includes the gather the objective, analysis the
current strategy, needed changes, select the creative strategy tools, design a customized strategy
development process, build a foundation, achieve the desired goals and measures the
effectiveness as well as establish the accountability (Bayo-Moriones, and et.al., 2020).
The deliberate strategy is the strategy which is arises from the thoughtful, conscious and
organized action on the part of the organization. It is generated from the analysis of data such as
segment size, customers need, market growth, strength and weaknesses of the competitors and
the technological trajectories. The delegation strategy is often employed by the large corporation
and business that are established with in the market. In the further aspects, the emergent strategy
are arises from the unplanned initiatives and actions within the organization. It is viewed as the
innovation and it’s directly result on the investments decision which are made by the individual
contributors such as financial staff, salesperson, middle manager and engineers.
Both the deliberate and emergent strategy are flexible as well as both strategy are
working hard for accomplish the goals in the business organization. Its flexibility helps in adjust
the goals and pursue the opportunities which are important for the business organization. The
emergent and deliberate process is considered as the development of the strategy of the business
organization (Soomro, and Shah., 2019). The emergent process is considered for the early stage
of the company and after the launch of product as well as establishes the sustainability in the
competitive market place. The emergent strategy helps in develop the strategy to for the
innovation and creative decision making for the company as well as ensures that all the
employees are empowered. While the deliberate strategy are set for achieve the strategic target
and it helps in reach the certain level of stability and maturity and it helps in change in the
survival towards the growth of business. The deliberate strategy makes sense to the every
employee to the top level managers within the organization.
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For example: the Wal-Mart company in the modern days are known as the embracing the
deliberate strategy for building the largest stores across the country. The company become the
successful in the first store after that they are open the second store. The company evaluate that
this strategy are best to expand the company and became its deliberate strategy. The company
Wal-Mart unplanned the initiatives of establishing the stores in the community and it is the
emergent strategy of the company. Moreover the company organized the thoughtful action is
known as the deliberate strategy of the company. The both strategy helps in company in the
business development including its competitive environment and maturity as well as develop the
sustainability in the marketplace. It’s also helps in arise the opportunities for the company in
their corporate plans because the emergent strategy helps empower the business and employees
during the uncertain times.
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
The entrepreneurship and innovation is the common concepts which are used economic
growth and sustainable development in the company. The innovation term are refer for
implementing the new idea and improve the products and process within the business for the
development and growth of the company (Drobyazko, and et.al., 2019). The innovation and
entrepreneurship both are related to each other that the innovation are required in the
entrepreneurial behaviours for the growth and development as well as develop the sustainability
to sustain in the competitive market. The innovation are begins with the entrepreneurship and it
is the risk component for the company. The entrepreneurship is willingness’s of the people to
take risks and develop the opportunities for the business. The characteristics of the innovation
and entrepreneurship are referring as the durability, risk taking, skills, interest and causes. The
roles of the innovation and entrepreneurship is enhance the creativity, development of the rand
responding the competition and needs for position the business for the future in the market trend,
introduce the new products for the existing product and increase the sales that all are helps in
encourage the business organization because the innovation is the backbone of the
entrepreneurial.
The first mover advantages is refer as they become the firm’s ability rather than the
competitors as well as become the first to market in the new product strategy. The first mover
advantages are used by the company because the customers are more essential and it can form a
monopoly in the market and it helps in gaining the larger number customers. The beneficial of
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the first mover advantages of the company is that the company can form the industries barriers
through the technologies to protect the business rapid development. In the further aspects, the
first mover companies are failed because the first mover company not able to see the clear
development prospects and it is the main reason of the failure (Brown and Barnard., 2018). The
new company and entrepreneurial have good prospects which are easy to imitated and acquire by
the mature of the company. The other companies are take advantages of the customers base to
cover the ideas of the first mover companies and they are come in the most pressure as well as
not occupy the market is the major draw backs of the first mover companies.
The first mover companies not able to achieve the great success in the market and it are
monopolist in the market for the short term period. There are various factors which are reason of
the failure of first mover such as inability to get the effective support, immature technologies. In
other words, it is more difficult to become the first mover in the competitive industry. The
company needs the various factors to become the successful in the first mover advantages such
as sufficient funds, user groups and entrepreneurial experience. The first mover is the
indispensable because of the continuously innovation and innovation. It is indispensable and
necessary to the society.
ESSAY 2
Culture and Strategy
Culture plays a very important role in our society. A strong culture in an organization will
provide good stability to a company, since it has important influence on the behaviour and
attitudes of the company’s members. Most of the company’s managers have a awareness that a
culture of an organization is very crucial to get success. There are various elements and
explanation to define an organizational culture; it means the top management values and beliefs
about the how they can manage business operation and organization. In simple words
organization culture is a group of expectations, practices and values that inform and guide the
activities of the team members (Lubis and Hanum., 2020). A strong organizational culture has a
great impact on the employee’s performance whereas dysfunctional organization culture leads
out the qualities that can be become obstructer in the organization success. Organizational
culture is very important because its links the company values and vision with things such as
productivity, employees’ engagement, positive recruitment efforts and retention rate etc. ego and
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negative attitude are the biggest problem or issue to the organizational culture. For making good
organizational workplace then there is no space of ego such as lack of communication between
the employees is one of the biggest issues faced by companies.
Organizational culture is affect by the many factors such as nature and size of the
business, employees contribution etc. because every employees have different thought process so
it affect the organisation culture. When culture links up with their employees then they are more
likely to feel supported, valued and comfortable. For example Wal-Mart workplace culture has
components such as service to the customers, action with integrity, and respect for individual and
strives for excellence which helps company to get more success.
Business strategy is define as the set of competitive actions and moves that a company
uses to complete successfully, improve performance, attract new customers and achieve the
organizational goals (Galbraith,. 2020). It shapes the business activities that how business should
perform their activities to reach the desire goal and ends. The business strategy is based on the
three levels such as corporate level, business level and functional level. The corporate level
strategy are formulated by the top level management for the expansion and growth of the
business, while the business level strategy are developed by the general managers of the
company and it is like the blueprint of the whole organization. The functional strategy is
developed by the supervisors and first line managers and that involves the decision making for
the operational.
The organizational culture are important for influence the development of the strategies
such as increase the engagement of the employees, turnover decrease, maintain strong brand
identity, evaluate the productivity, healthy team environments, productivity enhance and
effective on boarding. They are helps in influence the development strategy of the business
organization. It important to identify the organizational culture in order to achieve the strategy
implementation develops successfully.
The employees engagement is enhance in the culture of the business as well as it helps in
motivate and inspires the employees of the business organization (Azim, and et.al., 2019). The
culture of the employees engagement are helps in influence the development of organization
strategy that helps in achieve the goals of the business with the help of employees engagement
and interaction. It also helps in improve the performance and productivity of the organization
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and develop as strong strategy to develop and expand the company. It also influences the
expected behaviours of the employees and mangers by the culture of the organization.
Its also helps in enhance the productivity and performance of the business by the culture
and the productivity of the organization helps in influence the strategic development of the
organization to meet the objective of the company. The cultural influence the employees and
members of the company for the job and leads in achieve the goals through the completing task.
The organization culture also influence he ability of the leader to deliver the vision and
ideas to the members of the organization as well as gain their commitment and support when the
new strategy are apply in the organization (Xenikou., 2022). The right attitude of the person and
commitments a well as approach helps in implement the strategy successfully which can be
influence by the culture. The all are depend on applying the strategy successfully and achieve the
target of the organization. The good leader of the company use the organization culture to
influence the employees and shape their minds to work towards the objective of the company as
well as develop the strong and positive work environment. It also helps in boost the efficiency
and effectiveness of the business as well as attracts the more people towards the work within the
organization that leads in reducing the turnover of the employees and training and hiring cost.
Competition advantages are also sustained by the organizational culture and it helps in
generate the success of the company as well as influence the business strategy to become the
success in the competitive marketplace (Paais and Pattiruhu., 2020). The financial performance
of the business are also improve with the help of the competitive advantages and the competitors
are explore and copy the culture of the organization to become the successful in the future as
well as develop the strategic of business. The organizational culture is different and unique from
other company and it helps in differentiate the company from the competitors. It also helps in
make the consistency in the market through the development of the strategy and implementing
for become success. The cultural plays an important role in the business organization to sustain
in the competitive advantages.
The cultures of the organization helps in consider and applying the strategies
management and also helps in able to accomplish the goals of the organization as well as visions
of the leaders (Weissenberger-Eibl, and et.al., 2019). The cultures of the company Wal-Mart
helps in influence the strategic decisions in company and offer the low price to the customers as
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compared to the competitors and company have the low costs strategy. The cultural of Wal-Mart
helps in develop the strategies of the company.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Azim, and et.al., 2019. Linking transformational leadership with employees’ engagement in the
creative process. Management Research Review.
Bayo-Moriones, and et.al., 2020. Business strategy, performance appraisal and organizational
results. Personnel Review.
Brown, A.D. and Barnard, B., 2018. Entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic foresight: How
entrepreneurs engage the future as opportunity. Available at SSRN 3295996.
Drobyazko, and et.al., 2019. Entrepreneurship innovation model for telecommunications
enterprises. Journal of Entrepreneurship Education. 22(2). pp.1-6.
Galbraith, J.R., 2020. Strategy and organization planning. Human Resource Management. 22(1‐
2). pp.63-77.
Lubis, F.R. and Hanum, F., 2020. Organizational culture. In 2nd Yogyakarta international
conference on educational management/administration and pedagogy (YICEMAP
2019). Atlantis Press (pp. 88-91).
Paais, M. and Pattiruhu, J.R., 2020. Effect of motivation, leadership, and organizational culture
on satisfaction and employee performance. The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics,
and Business. 7(8). pp.577-588.
Soomro, B.A. and Shah, N., 2019. Determining the impact of entrepreneurial orientation and
organizational culture on job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and employee’s
performance. South Asian Journal of Business Studies.
Weissenberger-Eibl, and et.al., 2019. A systems thinking approach to corporate strategy
development. Systems. 7(1). p.16.
Xenikou, A., 2022. Leadership and organizational culture. In Handbook of Research Methods
for Organisational Culture (pp. 23-38). Edward Elgar Publishing.
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