What is a Strategy? (noun)




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Augusto Carreira
Partner, Portugal

What is a Strategy? (noun)

Unless a definition of "a strategy" is agreed upon by those who will have to use it and act by it, no "strategic planning" of whatever flavor will do. Yet, it is an illusion to fancy that one doesn't need a strategy. Let's make it clear. I define a strategy as:
"a timed response to a challenge (opportunity or problem)".
The outcome of a strategy will be a set of policies that the company follows.
So, whatever one is doing today is the follow-up of decisions taken in the past and these embody a strategy because the future of the company derives from that.
A strategy can be engineered in the sense that its outcomes can be specified and it can be designed. A strategy lowers the uncertainty to manageable levels and, after implementation, what's left is a set of policies that materialize in procedures (almost zero uncertainty). This is valid for opening a new facility abroad or to establish a new bonus plan.
 

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Sudheendra
Consultant, India
 

Strategy for the Definition Part

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Mellacheruvu Adi Saasthry
Director, India
 

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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

What is a Strategy?

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Alan Kennedy, Canada
 

What is a Strategy? Definition

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John Henry
Project Manager, United States
 

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Alan Kennedy, Canada
 

Strategy as Content and Process?

Mr. Henry focuses on strategy as a process. I think strategy starts with understanding content. I ar... Sign up

 
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Andrew Blaine
Business Consultant, South Africa
 

Strategy as Content and Process

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sadiq
Student (MBA), Pakistan
 

What is Strategy According to Porter

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Ehab Abou Hamdan
Consultant, Lebanon
 

Definition of Strategy

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Hakim Moi
Strategy Consultant, United Kingdom
 

Strategy as a Complex Multi-dimensional Variable

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pavan singh
Student (MBA), India
 

What is Strategy? An Integrated Set of Choices

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Francois La Roche
Business Consultant, Canada
 

Defining Strategy: Resource Allocation

Strategy in my book is very simply defined as Deciding where to allocate one's resources. It is the... Sign up

 
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Wayne Hill
Manager, South Africa
 

What is Strategy

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Alex
Business Consultant, Germany
 

Strategy for Stakeholders

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Sathya Devarakonda
Project Manager, India
 

What is Strategy?

A Professor at MIT Sloan says a strategy is the plan to move from one place to another. The CEO gene... Sign up

 
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Augusto Carreira
Partner, Portugal
 

The Future is Always a Challenge

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