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Corporate-Level Strategy
Overview: Define and discuss corporate-level strategy Different levels and types of diversification Three primary reasons firms diversify Value creation: related diversification strategy Value creation: unrelated diversification strategy Incentives and resources encouraging diversification Management motives for overdiversification
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Introduction
Business-level Strategy An integrated and coordinated set of commitments and
actions the firm uses to gain competitive advantage by exploiting core competencies in specific product markets
Corporate-level Strategy Specifies actions a firm takes to gain a competitive advantage
by selecting and managing a group of different businesses competing in different product markets
Expected to help firm earn above-average returns Value ultimately determined by degree to which “the businesses in
the portfolio are worth more under the management of the company then they would be under any other ownership”
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Introduction
Corporate-level strategy concerns: The scope of the markets and industries the firm
competes in How the firm manages their portfolio of businesses Mode of entry into new businesses
Internal development, acquisitions/merger, joint venture/strategic alliance
Level and type of diversification Capturing synergies between business units Allocating corporate resources
Product diversification is the primary form of corporate-level strategy
Diversification is often looked at as a growth strategy
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Introduction
Diversified firms vary according to level and type of diversification (Figure 6.1) Level – # of different industries a firms competes in Type – degree of relatedness between business units
Corporate-level strategy is also concerned with: Capturing economies of scope or synergies between
business units (Related) Capturing financial synergies (Unrelated)
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Value-Creating Diversification:Related Strategies
Purpose: Gain market power relative to competitors
Related diversification wants to develop and exploit economies of scope between its businesses Economies of scope: Cost savings firm creates by
successfully sharing some of its resources and capabilities or transferring one or more corporate-level core competencies that were developed in one of its businesses to another of its businesses
Composed of ‘related’ diversification strategies including Operational and Corporate relatedness
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Value-Creating Diversification:Related Strategies
Operational Relatedness: Sharing activities Can gain economies of scope Share primary or support activities (in value chain)
Risky as ties create links between outcomes Related constrained diversified firms share activities in
order to create value Not easy, often synergies not realized as planned
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Value-Creating Diversification:Related Strategies
Corporate Relatedness: Core competency transfer Complex sets of resources and capabilities linking
different businesses through managerial and technological knowledge, experience and expertise
Two sources of value creation Core competence can be developed in one business unit and
transferred to other business units at no additional cost Intangible resources difficult for competitors to understand and
imitate, so immediate competitive advantage over competition can be achieved through transfer of corporate-level core competence
Use related-linked diversification strategy
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Value-Creating Diversification:Related Strategies
Market Power Exists when a firm is able to sell its products above the existing
competitive level or to reduce costs of primary and support activities below the competitive level, or both.
Can come from increasing scale or size Market power can also be created through:
Multipoint Competition
Exists when 2 or more diversified firms simultaneously compete in the same product or geographic markets.
Vertical Integration Exists when a company produces its own inputs (backward integration)
or owns its own source of output distribution (forward integration)
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Value-Creating Diversification:Related Strategies
Proctor and Gamble Provides branded consumer goods products worldwide 3 GBUs
Beauty GBU Beauty segment Grooming segment
Health and Well-Being GBU Health Care segment Snacks, Coffee, and Pet Care segment
Household Care GBU Fabric Care and Home Care segment Baby Care and Family Care segment
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Value-Creating Diversification:Related Strategies
Johnson and Johnson Engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sale of
various products in the health care field worldwide 3 segments
Consumer segment Products for baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care, and women’s
health care fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products
Pharmaceutical segment Products for anti-infective, antipsychotic, cardiovascular, contraceptive,
dermatology, gastrointestinal, hematology, immunology, neurology, oncology, pain management, urology, and virology
Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment Products for circulatory disease management, orthopaedic joint
reconstruction and spinal care, wound care and women’s health, minimally invasive surgical, blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery, and diagnostic products, as well as disposable contact lenses
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Value-Creating Diversification:Related Strategies
Campbell Soup Company Engages in the manufacture and marketing of branded
convenience food products worldwide 4 segments
U.S. Soup, Sauces, and Beverages Baking and Snacking International Soup, Sauces, and Beverages North America Foodservice
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Value-Creating Diversification:Unrelated Strategies
Creates value through two types of financial economies
Financial economies – cost savings realized through improved allocations of financial resources based on investments inside or outside firm Efficient internal capital market allocation (versus
external capital market) Restructuring of acquired assets
Firm A buys firm B and restructures assets so it can operate more profitably, then A sells B for a profit in the external market
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Value-Creating Diversification:Unrelated Strategies
United Technologies Corporation Provides technology products and services to the building
systems and aerospace industries worldwide Otis segment – elevators and escalators Carrier segment – air conditioning and refrigeration UTC Fire and Security segment. Pratt and Whitney segment - aircraft engines; parts and
services Hamilton Sundstrand segment - aerospace products and
aftermarket services Sikorsky segment – helicopters UTC also engages in the development and marketing of
distributed generation power systems and fuel cell power plants for stationary, transportation, space, and defense applications
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Value-Creating Diversification:Unrelated Strategies
Textron, Inc. Operates in the aircraft, industrial, and finance
industries worldwide. 4 segments
Bell – helicopters plus parts and service Cessna – general aviation aircraft Industrial – auto parts, food containers, hydraulics,
golf carts Finance – aircraft finance, asset-based lending,
distribution finance, golf finance, resort finance
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Value-Neutral Diversification: Incentives and Resources
Value-Neutral Incentives to Diversify Antitrust Regulation and Tax Laws Low Performance Uncertain Future Cash Flows Synergy and Firm Risk Reduction Tangible and Intangible Resources and
Diversification
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Value-Reducing Diversification: Managerial Motives to Diversify
Top-level executives may diversify in order to diversity their own employment risk and to increase their own compensation, as long as profitability does not suffer excessively Diversification adds benefits to top-level managers but
not shareholders This strategy may be held in check by governance
mechanisms or concerns for one’s reputation
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Portfolio Analysis
Requires the continual evaluation of a firms portfolio of business units
This involves: Assessing the attractiveness of the industries the firm
competes in Assessing the competitive strength of a firm's business units Checking the competitive advantage potential of sharing
activities and/or transferring competencies across business units
Checking the potential for capturing financial economies
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Portfolio Analysis
Best Case Scenario: All of a firm's business units compete in attractive industries
and have strong competitive positionsand
There are ample opportunities to capture economies of scope and/or financial economies
Useful Tools for Portfolio Analysis Include: Nine cell industry attractiveness and competitive strength
matrix BCG growth share matrix