List and describe briefly the fundamental three methods for viewing, analyzing, and understanding an organization's strategic assets.

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The Answer is • Financial Performance Analysis: This method examines the most critical strategic asset - an organization's financial resources. The available capital is a primary determinant of what an organization can achieve strategically. Furthermore, financial assets can purchase almost all the other resources required to implement strategies - space, equipment, people, buildings, intellectual property, and skills. The success of the strategies is typically measured in financial terms. Many stakeholders, particularly the owners of for-profit corporations, pay primary attention to dollar metrics.
• A few common measures are traditionally watched as indicators of an organization's fiscal health. Most of them are calculated and followed over a period of time to detect trends.
• Sales, market share, and profits.
• Free cash flow.
• External capital sources.
• Capital project hurdle rate.
• Other capital demands.
• Shareholder value.
• Liquidity ratios, profitability, operating efficiency, and capital structure ratios.
• Resources And Competencies Review: This method consists of an inventory of the various strategy-relevant resources possessed by the organization and the competencies that are manifested through them. It tells the organization what means are available to it for carrying out any strategies that it might have in mind.
• Value Chain Evaluation: This method analyzes an organization's strategic potential by describing the chain of value-adding activities that it performs in creating goods and services. At each point in the chain, it identifies the assets (resources and competencies) being applied to create value. The method then determines whether those assets are being used as efficiently as possible to create that value, whether the same value could be created in entirely different ways, whether new values could be created at different points in the value chain, and whether the entire value chain could be reengineered to deliver greater value more efficiently. The ultimate strategic purpose of this method is a persistent quest for sustainable competitive advantage.

List and Describe Briefly the Fundamental Three Methods for Viewing