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SBL - Strategic Business Leadership
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These SBL Strategic Business Leadership Notes covered almost each and every important topic in simple and understandable language. It is quite easy to read and grab the knowledge of the topic.
Leadership
- At Very first it talks about the leadership. What Leadership is actually.
- It then talks about Trait theories, Behavioral/ style theories.
Agency Relationships
- What is Agency Relationship?
- Agency Problems
- Agency cost
- Reducing agency costs
- Monitoring costs
- Types of Organisations
- Strategic Objective
The Board of Directors
- Role of The Board of Directors
- Non‐Executive Directors (NED)
The International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
- Corporate objective
- Corporate board
- COSTS OF DIVERSIFYING THE BOARD
- Role of Committees
- NOMINATION COMMITTEE‐ROLES
- REMUNERATION COMMITTEE‐ROLES
- RISK COMMITTEE‐ROLES
- AUDIT COMMITTEE‐ROLES
- Continuing professional development (CPD)
- Corporate Culture
- Risk management
- Audit
- Disclosure and transparency
- Shareholder rights
- Shareholder responsibilities
The Concepts Underpinning Governance
- Fairness
- Transparency
- Independence
- Honesty
- Probity
- Responsibility
- Accountability
- Reputation
- Judgment
- Integrity
- Innovation
- Skepticism
Reporting to Stakeholders
- Annual Report
- Mandatory and voluntary disclosures
- Integrated Reporting (IR)
- The Global reporting Initiative (GRI)
Two-Tier Boards
- Approaches to Corporate Governance/ Regulating Corporate Governance
- Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)
- Insider vs Outsider Systems
Stakeholders
- Managing Stakeholder Relations
- MENDELOW Theory
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Archie Carroll’s model of social responsibility
- Corporate Citizenship
Environmental Footprint
- Need of internal control re. environment
- Environmental Management System (EMS)
- Operations management
- Environmental reporting
- Environmental audit
- ISO 14000/14001
- Eco Management Audit Scheme (EMAS)
- Internal controls and environmental footprint
Social Footprint
- Social audit
Sustainability
- Environmental sustainability
- Economic sustainability
- Environmental Audits
- Environmental Reporting
Code of Ethics
- Corporate code of ethics
- Fundamental principles
- Integrity
- Objectivity
- Professional competence & due care
- Confidentiality
- Professional behavior
- Threats/Conflict of interest
- Self‐interest
- Self‐review
- Advocacy
- Familiaruty
- Intimidation
- Safeguards
Bribery and Corruption
- Tucker’s 5‐question model
- PUBLIC INTEREST
Introduction to Strategy
- Levels of strategies
The Strategic Planning Process
- The strategic position
- The environment
- Strategic capability
- Expectations and influence of stakeholders
- Business level strategy
- Corporate level strategy
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Strategy methods
- Strategy evaluation
- Organizing for success
- anaging strategic change
- Best talent management strategy
- Performance excellence
Strategic Analysis
- Macro Environment
- Micro environment
Macro Environment: PESTEL Analysis
- Political environment
- Economic environment
- Social environment
- Environmental/Ecological
- Legal environment
- Building Scenarios
Micro/Industry/Sector analysis
- Competitive forces – the Five Forces Framework
- Threat of new entrants
- Power of suppliers
- Power of buyers
- Threat of substitutes
- Competition and rivalry
Industry Life Cycle
- Market Segments
- Critical Success Factors
- National Environment
- Scenario Planning
- Strategic Capability
- Knowledge as a Resource and a Competence
Understanding and Diagnosing Strategic Capability
- The Value Chain and Value System
- Primary activities
- Support activities
- Value network
SWOT Analysis
- VRIO framework
- PESTEL
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats
Strategic Choice
- Business strategy
- Generic Competitive Strategies
- Differentiation
- Sustaining Competitive Advantage through the Marketing Mix
- Protecting/Sustaining Competitive Advantage
- Strategy Directions
- The BCG Matrix
- The Public Sector Portfolio Matrix
- International Strategy
- How to Grow: Methods of Growth/Development
- Criteria Used by Management to Select Strategies
Sources of Finance
- Evaluating financial performance
- Evaluating the current financial position
- Recommendation of a suitable financing method
- Security and covenants
- Availability
- Maturity
- Costs and ease of issue
- The yield curve
- Suitable financing sources
- Formation and initial growth
- Bank loans and overdrafts
- Invoice discounting and factoring
- Mature companies
- What are ICOs?
- HOW DOES IT WORK (ICOs)?
Risk Management
- IMPORTANCE OF RISK MANAGEMENT
- RISK STRATEGY
- RISK APPETITE
- RISK ATTITUDE
- EMBEDDING RISK
- How to identify risk?
- Operational Risk
- Business risks
- Financial risks
- Credit Risk
- Market Risk
- Financial Market Risk
- Liquidity Risk
- Exchange rate risk
- Interest Rate Risk
- Derivative Risk
- Legal and Compliance Risk
- Political Risk
- Technology Risk
- Health and Safety Risk
- Environmental Risk
- Fraud Risk
- Intellectual Property Risk
- Reputation Risk
- Business Probity Risk
- Entrepreneurial risk
- Trading risk
- Tools and techniques for analyzing risks
- Risk perceptions: objective and subjective risk perceptions
- Why should risk assessment be on‐going?
- TRANSFERRING RISK
- AVOIDING RISK
- REDUCING RISK
- ACCEPTING RISK
- Risk diversification
- Methods of diversifying risks
- Related and correlated risk factors
- Reporting of risks
- RISK AUDITING
Internal Control and Review
- COSO: Contents of a sound system of internal control
- Objectives of internal control
- Control environment
- Risk assessment
Internal Audit
- Functions of Internal Audit Department
- Factors to consider when determining the need of internal audit
- Independence of Internal Audit
- REPORTING STRUCTURE
- Audit committee overseeing internal audit
- Reporting on Internal Controls to Shareholders
- Contents of the Report to Shareholders on Internal Controls
- Reporting under SOX
- Characteristics of Effective, Useful Information
- Management information systems
Strategy in Action
- Enabling Success: Organizing
- Enabling Success: Performance Management
- Empowering Organizations
- Talent Management
- Talent Management Model
Strategic Change
- The Four‐view POPIT Model‐closely linked to process redesign and project management
- Implementing Change
- Lewin’s Three‐Stage Model
- Process Redesign
- Harmon Process‐Strategy Matrix
- Process Redesign Options
- Project Management
Financial Analysis
- Tools of financial analysis that can be used to evaluate opportunities and determine whether they are financially beneficial or not
- Investment appraisal
- NPV (Net Present Value)
- Pay Back Period
- Discounted Pay Back Period
- Internal Rate of return
- Risk and uncertainty
- Sensitivity analysis
- Expected Value
- Decision Tree
- Ratio analysis
- Current ratio
- Quick/ Liquid Ratio
- Debt equity ratio
- Debt to capital ratio
- Interest Coverage
- Gross Margin
- Operating Margin
- Net Margin
- Return on Assets
- Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
- Return on Equity
- Techniques of Financial Forecasting
- Executive Opinions
- Delphi Technique
- Sales Force Polling
- Consumer Surveys
- Scenario Writing
- Reference Class Forecasting
- Quantitative Techniques of Financial Forecasting
- Linear regression Forecasting
- Time‐Series Forecasting
- Budgets
- Fixed Budget
- Flexible Budget
- Flexed Budget
- Rolling budget
- Techniques of preparing budget
- Incremental budgeting
- Zero‐based budgeting
- Rolling budget
- Standard Costing
- Variance Analysis
- Basic Variance
- Planning Variances
- Operational Variances
- Managerial Accounting
- Managerial Cost accounting
- Full costing
- Absorption costing
- Activity‐Based‐Costing (ABC)
- Marginal Costing
- Relevant Costing
Developments in Technology Shaping Business
- Big Data
- Cloud Computing
- Mobile Technology
- Predictive Analytics
- FinTech
- IT Systems Security and Control
- Cyber Security
E‐Business/Digital Business
- The 6 I's of marketing
- Interactivity
- Intelligence
- Individualization
- Integration
- Industry structure
- Independence of location
- Branding
- What is crypto-currency?
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