B&M: Strategy

Mónica Fernanda Manzanares      - A01336886

Alexander Raymond Rubio            - A01337075

What is strategy?

  • Strategy, is effective planning aimed towards reaching a certain goal in the recent or distant future.
  • It involves being critical and analyzing the different aspects that surround a situation, and being able to develop an action plan from there.
  • It doesn't matter if you are a student, president, mother, CEO, or anything in this world. In order to have positive results, you should follow a defined strategy.

Strategy in Business

  • Every aspect that surrounds business has to follow a certain strategy in order to achieve a favorable outcome.
  • A business's success depends on how well a strategy is followed throughout time. Therefore, the growth and expansion of a company is directly related to strategy.

Adidas has a big plan to get ahead of Nike in soccer

  • In order to keep ahead of its main competitor, Nike, Adidas has developed a strategy plan for raising sales worldwide.
  • They plan on gaining the support of four main football teams, "and work as one" with them, by making use of their new campaign "BetheDifference".
  • With this social campaign, Adidas has gained the support of millions of people, and broke their record sales by almost 50%.
  • This example is intimately related with the concept of strategy, as once they examined their panorama, they had to follow a certain number of different steps in order to achieve their goal

B&M: Strategy

By Alex Raymond

B&M: Strategy

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