Reported by: Abner B. DomingoProf.: Dr Benjamin Guevarra

Touch points:Types of StrategiesOwnership StrategiesControl StrategiesManufacturing StrategiesMarketing Strategies

A company’s concept of Strategy consists of the competitive moves and business approaches that managers employ to attract and please customers, compete successfully, grow the business, conduct operations and achieve targeted objectives.

• A plan or course of action or a set of decisions rules forming pattern or creating a common thread.

• The pattern or common thread related to the organisation’s activities which move an organisation from its current position to a desired future stage

• Concerned with the resources necessary for implementing a plan or following a course of action and,

• Connected to the strategic positioning of a firm, making trade-offs between its different activities, and creating a fit among these activities

Strategy for type of partnerProduct rangeSizeEnter of international operationNationality

Joint venture/Partnering Permit the foreign partner to buy

existing Philippine firm Established a new company to

undertake new type of production

The maximum divorce of ownership from control would be illustrated in a situation where the Philippine owners hold 100% of the shares but enter into long-term management contract with a foreign company to which it gives full powers of management control

A manufacturing strategy is defined by a pattern of decisions, both structural and infrastructural, which determine the capability of a manufacturing system and specify how it will operate to meet a set of manufacturing objectives which are consistent with overall business objectives."

refer to the interrelation between domestic versus export sales

Asean free trade agreement with HK expected to benefit PH significantlyHong Kong, with its free port that does not levy any customs tariff and has limited excise duties, remains a potentially huge market for food and other consumer items from the Philippines. It is also the most important entry point to mainland China.

EU-ASEAN FTA Network Statement on the Signing of Joint Declaration on Cooperation (JDC) between the Philippines and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

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