Strategic Management

List five reasons why many merger/acquisitions historically have failed

1 Limited Owner Involvement
2 Misvaluation
3 Poor Integration Process
4 Cultural Integration Issues
5 Large Required Capacity

77. 
    Can you think of any reasons why not-for-profit firms would benefit less from doing strategic planning than for-profit companies?
    

For-profit corporations rely on employees and consultants, people in the company's employ, to help do the analyses and create the visions. Nonprofits usually invite outside stakeholders, those who support or benefit from the organization's work, to participate in strategic planning.

77. 
    Discuss how important it is for a college football or basketball team to have a good game plan for the big rival game this coming weekend. How much time and effort do you feel the coaching staff puts into developing that game plan? Why is such time and effort essential?
    

Because without a plan, it is almost impossible to play a match, since during the game process the team will play as individualists and the team always has a plan in the game, because even a genius without a plan can lose to a fool with a plan. Usually, judging by the statistics, the coaching staff studies the opponent and creates a game plan based on the analyzes for at least three or four days, because every details and moments are taken into account as well as nuances

77. 
    How does strategy formulation differ for a small versus a large organization? How does it differ for a for-profit versus a nonprofit organization?
    

1 The strategy formulation process across different organizations differs in the following ways: Small Versus Large Organizations In small organizations, strategy formulation process is mainly inclined towards meeting short term organizational objectives within the available resources whereas in case of large
2 In terms of long-term planning, the key difference between these two organizational structures is that the non-profit organization is guided by their mission and their purpose, where the for-profit entity is (often, but not always) guided by their vision and seeks to achieve a better version of themselves within a

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