Crafting Strategy

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Crafting Strategy

• Henry MintzbergHarvard Business Review,
• July-August, 1987

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Emergent Strategy

• Strategies need not be deliberate they can also
  emerge.
• Strategies can form as well as be formulated.
• Strategy making walks on two feet one
  deliberate, one emergent.

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Locus of Strategizing

• Strategy formulation and implementation merge
  into a fluid process of learning they are not
  separate.
• Therefore, strategy cannot be solely the purview
  of top management operating level employees can
  and must contribute.

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Managing Strategy

• Managing Strategy is mostly managing stability,
  not change
• To manage strategy ... is not so much to promote
  change as to know when to do so.
• The fundamental challenge of managing strategy is
  reconciling the forces for stability and for
  change.