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PICTURE & QUOTATION - MANAGEMENT
05.
DOMAINS & DECISIONS
MANAGEMENT JOKE :
SHO(R)T DECISIONS
MANAGEMENT RECIPE :
CHOLAP POORI
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ASSOCIATION
40. ACCREDITED
ASSOCIATION
DR.VSRS WITH ARTHUR LEWIS
Nobel Laureate in Economic
Science 1979
In the University of West
Indies.
Barbados Campus
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SUMMARY
What is the origin of
“Strategic Management” leading the world towards Welfare and better
living over a period of time ?
This question opens a “Pandora’s Box”. It is significant that it is
a key question to open up the knowledge of a world of ignorance,
with some believing that strategic management is initiated by
science and some as economics and management faculty. The answer is
the WAR that gave birth to the concepts of “Strategic
Management”. [Note - In Greek mythology, God Zeus – God of
intelligence, like the Roman Jupiter - gave a box to “Pandora” (the
first intelligent greek woman ever created), with the instructions
that she should not open it. By her curiosity she opened it. All the
miseries and evils (boxed for the good of the world) flew out to
afflict mankind by asking questions, questions and questions].
First of all, the word “STRATEGY” itself is a proprietary property
of the war mongers. Any peace loving person will continue his living
by synchronizing his mind and body with the environment, the
surroundings (including people, geography and the nature) and the
nature. But people in conflict do not live in peace at any point of
time. They always try to guess the probable movement of the enemies,
always plan and innovative ways to over come their enemies. This war
motivated innovation is the “Strategic” approach. The war strategies are optimised target hitting experiences and
these tactics could be applied to any peace time techno-commercial
problems. Hence, they took shape as “Strategic Management Models”.
The best contributors are from the “Mahabharatha war (3,102 BC),
Artha Sasthra enunciated by Kautilya (4th Century BC), the First
world war (1914-1918) and the Second world war (1939-1945).
A) BIRTH OF STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT
These war strategies became useful during the post-war time and
took shape as the “Strategic management” concepts. When there is no
war, each nation was busy in keeping their people and economy at a
reasonable higher level. This is in a crude way, is an “Economic
superiority war or Cold war” between the nations. This sequenced the
functions of each faculty in a strategic order. The faculty of
science innovates (compressed steam can be used to move objects with
force). The faculty of engineering made some designs to compress the
steam and utilise the moving power for some constructive work
(steam driven devises). The faculty of technology used these
designs to make some boilers to make steam, chests to compress it,
link to a wheel, levers to control the wheel movement and made it as
a gadget to produce and transport (steam driven utilities). The
faculty of economics worked out the cost and breakeven quantum to
bring it to the viable use of the common man.
At this point, every entrepreneur started using the steam power for
different utilities and originated the situation of “competition” (a
peace time war to grab profits out of the sequence of innovation!!).
To compete, progress and become a market leader, there was a need
for “strategic tools” and it was management (Mixture of Econ |
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