Report on Strategic Management Frameworks in Public Administration

This report provides an analysis of an article discussing strategic management frameworks applicable to public administration. The analysis focuses on eight key approaches to strategic planning, including the Portfolio Model developed by the Boston Consulting Group. The Portfolio Model helps in prioritizing business activities and treating business units as stocks in an asset portfolio, categorizing them as 'stars,' 'dogs,' or 'cash cows' based on market share and growth. The report also touches upon modified Portfolio models used by managers for problem traceability and public support, along with other approaches like strategic planning systems, stakeholder management, competitive analysis, strategic issues management, process strategies, strategic negotiation, and logical incrementalization. The report concludes that these strategic planning approaches can provide valuable insights in the public sector.

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Executive Summary:
The report is an analysis of an article that provides an overview of public administration. The
report analyses the given article based on the various approaches and frameworks for strategic
management.

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Table of Contents
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Introduction:
The report provides an analysis of the article that sheds light on the frameworks for
strategic management.
Discussion:
The report is an analytic overview of an article. The analysis of the article shows a
compilation of eight key approaches of strategic planning that puts forward an in depth
understanding of the models. Analysis of the article showed that the managers could apply most
of the approaches in public sector based on certain provisions. Portfolio Model is one such
model used by Boston Consulting Group that enabled it in focusing on the higher level of
corporate decisions based on relative priorities of business activities (Proctor, 2014). The analysis
also portrayed how the Portfolio Model allowed executives in treating the business units of the
larger corporations as represented stocks in the individual’s asset portfolio. The analysis further
showed that access of executives to the business units within a corporation based on two
dimensions, size of market share and market growth. It is also seen that business units possessing
higher value on both dimensions represented as ‘stars’ and calls for the need of priority attention
along with a profit reinvestment. Business units having smaller shares and slower growth are
represented as ‘dogs’ thereby demanding for a divestiture. However, the business unit with
higher market share and slower market growth represented as ‘ cash cows’ and it stressed on the
synergy and effective meshing of activities within organization for producing overall gains. The
analysis finally led to the discovery of the growth matrix model used today.

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The analysis also portrayed how the managers used a modified Portfolio model by
ensuring problem traceability and public support. The article also threw light on some of the
other approaches that included strategic planning system, stakeholder management, competitive
analysis, strategic issues management, process strategies and strategic negotiation and logical
incrementalization (Hill, 2017).
Conclusion:
To conclude it can be said that the reports discussed about major approaches in strategic
planning that finds application in the public sector for getting deeper insights into the models
applied.

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References:
Hill, T., 2017. Manufacturing strategy: the strategic management of the manufacturing function.
Macmillan International Higher Education.
Proctor, T., 2014. Strategic marketing: an introduction. Routledge.
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