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The strategic management process means defining the organization’s strategy. It is also defined as the process by which managers make a choice of a set of strategies for the organization that will enable it to achieve better performance.
Strategic management is a continuous process that appraises the business and industries in which the organization is involved; appraises it’s competitors; and fixes goals to meet all the present and future competitor’s and then reassesses each strategy.
Strategic management process has following four steps:
It helps in analyzing the internal and external factors influencing an organization.
After executing the environmental analysis process, management should evaluate it on a continuous basis and strive to improve it.
After conducting environment scanning, managers formulate corporate, business and functional strategies.
Strategy implementation includes designing the organization’s structure, distributing resources, developing decision making process, and managing human resources.
The key strategy evaluation activities are: appraising internal and external factors that are the root of present strategies, measuring performance, and taking remedial/corrective actions.
Evaluation makes sure that the organizational strategy as well as it’s implementation meets the organizational objectives.
These components are steps that are carried, in chronological order, when creating a new strategic management plan.
Present businesses that have already created a strategic management plan will revert to these steps as per the situation’s requirement, so as to make essential changes.
Strategic management is an ongoing process. Therefore, it must be realized that each component interacts with the other components and that this interaction often happens in chorus.
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