{"id":35091,"date":"2025-09-21T21:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/programs\/strategic-planning-professional-certificate-2\/lessons\/lesson-3-combination-strategy-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:30:04","slug":"lesson-3-combination-strategy-2","status":"publish","type":"lesson","link":"https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/ar\/programs\/sample-course\/lessons\/lesson-3-combination-strategy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"lesson 3: Combination Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logos-png-01-296x57-1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logos-png-01-296x57-1.png 96w, https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logos-png-01-296x57-1-10x12.png 10w, https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logos-png-01-296x57-1-42x50.png 42w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>Lesson 3: Corporate Strategy &#8211; Part Two<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">5. Combination Strategy<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Combination.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Combination.png 512w, https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Combination-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Combination-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Combination-12x12.png 12w, https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Combination-410x410.png 410w, https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Combination-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h5>A company pursues a combination strategy when it adopts more than one grand strategy (i.e., stability, growth and retrenchment) simultaneously or sequentially.<\/h5>\n<h5>The reason for pursuing a combination strategy is the existence of a combination of reasons for any two or more of the other three generic strategies.<\/h5>\n<h5>Winners (winning companies) are like chefs, they must learn how to cook sweet (growth strategies) and sour (retrenchment strategies) Too much of emphasize on growth will make your company diabetic.<\/h5>\n<h5>Companies should seek growth simultaneously with retrenchment (it is like exercising to remain fitter, leaner and healthier).<\/h5>\n<h5>Under combination strategy corporate strategic planning is aimed at achieving multiple goals through combination of retrenchment, growth, and stability.<\/h5>\n<h5>Under the combination strategy, a company adopts any one of the following:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5>Stability and growth strategies.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Stability and retrenchment strategies.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Growth and retrenchment strategies.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h5>Growth, retrenchment, and stability strategies.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>A combination strategy results from environmental changes and redefinition of the business portfolio of the company.<\/h5>\n<h5>Types of Corporate Level Strategy 4 Most Important Types: Growth Strategy, Stability Strategy, Retrenchment Strategy and Combination Strategy<\/h5>\n<h5>Corporate strategy is about strategic decisions about determining overall scope and direction of a corporation and the way in which its various business units work together to attain particular goals.<\/h5>\n<h5>Corporate-level strategy is an action taken to gain a competitive advantage through the selection and management of combination of businesses competing in several industries or product markets.<\/h5>\n<h5>Corporate strategies are normally expected to help the firm earn above- average profits and create value for the shareholders.<\/h5>\n<h5>Corporate strategy addresses the issues of a multi-business firm as a whole.<\/h5>","protected":false},"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-35091","lesson","type-lesson","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>lesson 3: Combination Strategy - Certifeka-edu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/certifeka-edu.com\/ar\/programs\/sample-course\/lessons\/lesson-3-combination-strategy-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"lesson 3: Combination Strategy - Certifeka-edu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lesson 3: Corporate Strategy &#8211; Part Two 5. 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