Surveying Strategy: The Design School
This post is the second in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is an informal process of conception. In the 1960s, the design school presented a...
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This post is the second in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is a formal process. The planning school developed parallel to the design school. It...
View ArticleSurveying Strategy: The Positioning School
This post is the third in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is an analytical process. The positioning school is most closely associated with its...
View ArticleSurveying Strategy: The Entrepreneurial School
Strategy is a visionary process. At this point, we depart from the schools that are aligned with a larger prescriptive “university” of strategy. Rather, these schools seek to describe what is happening...
View ArticleSurveying Strategy: The Cognitive School
This post is the third in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is a mental process. If the entrepreneurial school introduced the idea that strategy...
View ArticleSurveying Strategy: The Learning School
This post is the third in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is an emergent process. For proponents of the learning school, any attempt to reduce...
View ArticleSurveying Strategy: The Power School
This post is the seventh in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is a process of negotiation. The power school draws a lot from the learning school,...
View ArticleSurveying Strategy: The Cultural School
This post is the eighth in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is a collective process. Contrasting the power school, which emphasizes negotiation...
View ArticleSurveying Strategy: The Environmental School
This post is the eighth in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is a reactive process. The environmental school takes the burden of strategy...
View ArticleSurveying Strategy: The Configuration School
This post is the final in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. Strategy is a fluid process. The configuration school is the jeet kune do of strategy: the way...
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