What is strategic management?
Strategic management involves setting objectives, analyzing the competitive environment, analyzing the internal organization, evaluating strategies, and ensuring that management rolls out the strategies across the organization.
Strategic management is divided into several schools of thought. A prescriptive approach to strategic management outlines how strategies should be developed, while a descriptive approach focuses on how strategies should be put into practice. These schools differ on whether strategies are developed through an analytic process, in which all threats and opportunities are accounted for, or are more like general guiding principles to be applied.
This blogpost if going to be boring for the majority but things need to be addressed
Because while I was going through yesterday's game which was a final of World T20 event penultimate game, Pakistan lost the game even before the first ball was bowled of the final, just because I am trying to elaborate SM with respect to a common layman, because I love studying strategies but not exactly a professional, so whatever I am going to elaborate here is from the point of view of a common person, hence it is requested to kindly provide feedback but do not tit-for-tat criticism just for the sake of criticizing.
Why I said, Pakistan lost the game even before the tournament initiated?
Predictable stages
I am not a professional, just an enthusiast and hence when someone as naive as me could understand this thing that you're being predictable off whatever you're tend to do, and similarly opponent team knew what Pakistan team is going to implement, hence when your future steps are as clear as daylight, how can we create a WHAT IF situation in the minds of the opponent?
Forgetting to test newer players
Excessive utilization of our A players in an era where strategic management and video analysis are a common norm, hence why instead of seeking attention for media grabbing, they must have rotated their options when they were playing series against England because against England; we gave 280 overs chance to analyze our cricketers, and we gave them chance, as instead of exposing our cricketers for each and every single game.
Negligence in creation of immediate backups for current A team players
This is another aspect I found it amusing that we are supposed to be running a professional cricket team without an option of B team players, or in professional language, avoiding contingency plans, where B team is my term for backup in lieu of current main team i.e., the A team players,
Advantage for creating backup
One advantage is we are going to avoid monotony where we experienced during this year's T20 World Cup, where Pakistan cricket team didn't take account of the fact that while playing with fear factor of getting defeated, they exposed their main bench, although during the 7 T20I series against England at home, we could definitely test newer players, which could have opened doors for newer options, for which we paid the price while everyone worked on how to cater our batters.
Rotation management
Rotating players professionally is something also sans in current Pakistani confinement. because we are afraid to test our newer batters, one advantage is securing main players, furthermore it would have definitely created a newer breed of cricketers which might have created less stress on the current playing cricketers.
Keeping aces as cognitive
This is another aspect, where especially in case of Pakistan, Shahzaib Hasan and Fakhar Zaman have been two aspects, where for the time being, we got a trump card, for which we could have had utilized because they were not exposed, because yesterday too we could have had worked on the aspect where we could have given rest to Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan, because we are responsible for letting them exposed and while getting exposed, we have been ridiculing them and even discussing options for newer skippers, which is pathetic helm of affairs.
Focusing on the final outcome
We require to align our final outcome with respect to the monthly assignments, i.e., we need to plan how we are going to enter alongside creating ample number of backups to the world cup which is 50 overs Cricket World Cup which is in India, how we are planning to move towards that world cup, for which we require to stage strategic pitstops.
Performance management
Performance management or performance analysis is something sans in current Pakistani setup for which I am also in favor for, because performance analysis-based assessment requirement is the need of the time.
Performance based analysis
There should be ranking based analysis on the performances, because in that regard, there would be competition in cricketers within the pool which is going to be beneficial for the team itself.
Management requires Courageous Decisions
This is the main aspect which requires implementation of proper domestic circuit matches, because I personally find it amusing that our بابے management have been afraid of being defeated in bilateral series, but instead forget the thought that their (visiting teams' video analysts) analyze our aces and in big tournaments like WT20 and CWC, they exploit our strengths as weaknesses, hence the management have to look out of the boxes and have to look more into bigger picture and strategically utilize our players and own them instead of utilizing them like a toilet roll.
