The document provides an overview of strategic management and strategy. It defines strategic management as the ongoing activities and processes that organizations use to systematically coordinate resources and actions with their mission, vision and strategy. It also explains that strategy execution involves systematically implementing an organization's strategy. Additionally, it notes that organizational goals define desired business results to provide employees with context and motivation for their work.

1. Please help me with a two paragraph response to the following:
Introduction to Strategic Management (2014) provides an overview of strategic management and
strategy. To launch our exciting course, this learning activity requires you to explain a
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Ans:trategic management is the comprehensive collection of ongoing activities and processes
that organizations use to systematically coordinate and align resources and actions with mission,
vision and strategy throughout an organization. Strategic management activities transform the
static plan into a system that provides strategic performance feedback to decision making and
enables the plan to evolve and grow as requirements and other circumstances change. Strategy
Execution is basically synonymous with Strategy Management and amounts to the systematic
implementation of a strategy.
A high-level description is one that is more abstracted, describes overall goals and
systemic features, and is typically more concerned with the system as a whole, or larger
components of it.
Organizational goals define and specify the desired business results, so employees have a greater
"cause" to commit to, and a context for their work. They help employees feel part of a team and
help them see the larger impact of their work.
Without organizational goals, employees are "just doing their job"; they know and understand
their small work environment, but have little knowledge of the larger organization. Their
motivation will therefore likely be limited to pleasing their manager, maintaining good
relationships with their peers, or even