Hi Jordan, strategies help a firm to gain and maintain progress and success. How can the realized and intended approaches realize progress in a corporation? Based on the revelation of your organization, it appears as if the intended and realized strategies create new ways of performing the company’s functions and reinforce the ideas to enhance effectiveness as in the case of the Flight Management Plans and using the Airmen to support the strategy. The intended strategies entail the plans that the corporation wishes to execute to obtain its goals. As firemen, I believe that the primary role is to carry out the emergency response services that help disaster victims. The Flight Management plans ensure that you can reach to affected regions easily and faster with the help of the Airmen. The leaders formulate the intended strategies at the beginning of their operations and utilize the realized approaches to ensure that the plans work out. Sometimes the intended strategies may come out as a weak mechanism that requires reinforcements to compete with rivals; hence, the realized method comes in to cover the areas that the intended strategies missed (Carpenter, 2015).
The realized approach is the plan that the organization decides to follow to achieve its outcomes in an efficient manner. So what exactly should managers consider when developing plans for the organizations? The formulation of the strategies should look at the internal and external factors in the company that may facilitate or inhibit the success of the techniques. The internal aspects that you have highlighted that are essential include employee motivation and engagement as well as the right leadership style. Other internal factors include the budget for the project and the skill set required to realize the mechanisms. The external elements that can affect strategy development include the perceptions of the consumers and society, relationships with the distributors and suppliers, competition, government policies, etc. (Alkhafaji and Nelson, 2013). The enterprise must consider all these factors when formulating their intended and realized strategies.
Reference
Alkhafaji A. and Nelson R. (2013). Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control in a Dynamic Environment. New York: Routledge.
Carpenter, M., (2015). Principles of Management. Chapter 1-4. New York: Flat World Knowledge.
