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Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Enriching Firms Strategic Management Capability

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies which use complex computer systems and machine learning are emerging as powerful tools that enhance the capabilities of human intelligence to help in solving complex business problems and making effective strategic decisions where human intelligence has limitations. AI is not a business strategy but can be regarded as a functional strategy […]

Value Creation through Incremental Change in Multibusiness Corporation

Multibusiness firms typically use multidivisional structures that comprise separate businesses, which are organized as strategic business units, divisions, or subsidiaries, and are controlled and coordinated by corporate management to create value. These businesses are arranged according to product groups, geographical locations and markets, or different vertically integrated stages. The primary characteristic of a multibusiness firm […]

Two Important Dimensions of Profitable Growth: Strategy and Innovation

In general, all firms have a desire to grow, and, for that reason, they use various growth strategies as they perceive to expand their firm’s activities. Growth can be achieved in several dimensions of corporate strategy: growth in sales, growth in assets (ROA), growth in equity (ROE), and growth in profitability, or some combination of […]

Managing Unknown Unknowns in Innovation

The external environment of emerging and technology-based industries will tend to be more uncertain as the world moves further into the twenty-first century. Any changes in an innovation firm’s external environment that are driven by the forces of technology, economics, and other influences impede the ability of strategic managers to make strategic decisions to keep […]

Importance of Portfolio Management in Innovation

The primary purpose of a strategic management system is to maximize the overall performance of the firm. However, a survey of Fortune 500 companies revealed that poor implementation has been the primary cause of strategic failures. Over time, portfolio management has gradually entered the strategic management system to become an essential part of it to […]