Concept Management Quarter

Strategic Management Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

The Quarter is designed to introduce its learners to enterprise discovery, or, in other words, to concepts related to obtaining data needed to administer the enterprise effort; and
The Quadrivium examines concepts of administering various types of enterprises known as enterprise administration as a whole.

The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.

Outline

The predecessor lecture is Business Modeling Quarter.

Lessons learned. The learning gained from the process of performing the project. Lessons learned may be identified at any point. Also considered a project record.

Skunk works. A small group within a large organization, given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by corporate bureaucracy, whose mission is to develop a project primarily for the sake of radical innovation.

Marketing management.
Business development.
Social screening. Approving social criteria (screens) to investment decisions.
Real goal. A goal that an organization actually pursues, as defined by the actions of its members.
Stated goal. An official statement of what an organization says, and what it wants its various stakeholders to believe, its goals are.
Strategic management process. A six-step process that encompasses strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Strategic management. What managers do to develop the organization's strategies.
Top manager. A manager at or near the upper levels of the organizational structure who are responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishing the goals and plans that affect the entire organization.
Balanced scorecard. A performance measurement tool that looks as more than just the financial perspective.
Outcome. A key factor that is affected by some other variables.
Performance. The end result of an activity.

- Management. The process or activity of dealing with or controlling things or people.

Range of variation. The acceptable parameters of variance between actual performance and the standard.
Angel investor. A private investor or group of private investors who offers financial backing to an entrepreneurial venture in return for equity in the venture.
Venture capitalist. External equity financing provided by professionally managed pools of investor money.
Value chain management. The process of managing the sequence of activities and information along the entire value chain.
Value chain. The entire series of organizational work activities that add value to each step from raw materials to finished product.
Value. The performance characteristics, features, and attributes, and any other aspects of goods and services for which customers are willing to give up resources.