SBUs

(noun)

Strategic Business Units; separate elements of a company, organized by similarity of processes and objectives.

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Examples of SBUs in the following topics:

  • Strategic Business Units

    • An SBU is a profit center which focuses on a product offering and a market segment.
    • SBUs are able to affect most factors which influence their performance.
    • Companies today often use the word segmentation or division when referring to SBUs or an aggregation of SBUs that share such commonalities.
    • The degree to which an SBU shares functional programs and facilities with other SBUs
    • Diagram the role and functionality of a strategic business unit (SBU)

  • GE Approach

    • The GE / McKinsey matrix is a model used to assess the strength of a strategic business unit (SBU) of a corporation.
    • The GE / McKinsey matrix is a model used to assess the strength of a strategic business unit (SBU) of a corporation.
    • It analyzes market attractiveness and competitive strength to determine the overall strength of a SBU.
    • Competitive strength focuses on internal factors and the ability of the SBU to overcome specific issues with the market and competitors.
    • While the GE / McKinsey matrix was originally used to assess a SBU, corporations can use this for other purposes as well.

  • Modular Structure

    • The modular structure focuses on dividing the business into small, tightly knit strategic business units (SBUs), which focus on specific elements of the organizational process.
    • Interdependence among the units is limited because the focus of many SBUs is more inward than outward and because loyalty within SBUs tends to be very strong.

  • Understanding Current Trends in Technology

    • Organization - Utilizing an organized business structure or corporate framework, often through strategic business units (SBUs), provides substantial value in centralizing processes and assessing needs.
    • Technology - Finally, improving upon these processes within SBUs via leveraging the appropriate data and information will drive strategic acquisition of beneficial technological improvements based upon current trends.

  • Overview of Inputs to Strategic Planning

    • Business strategy refers to the aggregated strategies of a single business firm or a strategic business unit (SBU) in a diversified corporation.
    • Many companies feel that a functional organizational structure is not an efficient way to organize activities, so they often re-engineer according to processes or SBUs.
    • An SBU is treated as an internal profit center by corporate headquarters.

  • Planning a Project

    • The stages of a project within the strategic-planning discipline provide a step-by-step approach to generating and implementing an effective strategy, for either a corporation or a strategic business unit (SBU).

  • Overview of Strategic Planning Tools

    • Goal setting, similar to MBO and SMART, is a simple method for strategists to establish and enforce specific goals within the organization or strategic business unit (SBU).

  • Definition and Challenges of a Global Corporation

    • International expansion requires enormous capital investments in many cases, along with the development of a specific strategic business unit (SBU) in order to manage these accounts and operations.

  • Teams

    • Overall corporate-level objectives drove strategic business unit (SBU) objectives, and these, in turn, drove functional level objectives.

  • The Challenge of Technology

    • Each of the strategic business units (SBUs), or facets of the organization, complements one another to create an ability greater than the sum of its parts.