Strategy Management Office in Large Organization
I wonder what the size of a strategy management organization should be in a company of 300,000 people?
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Warren D. Miller, CPA, CFA Strategy Consultant, United States
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Office of Strategy Management in Large Organizations
@Paul Maguire: As one who has studied and practiced strategic management for over 35 years, I wonder why there needs to be an "Office of Strategy Management" in the first place. Having something like that strikes me as needlessly creating a source of mischief because the person(s) who work there are going to have too-too much time on their hands because... such 'Office' shouldn't exist.
That's because strategy--whether it's at the corporate or the business level--is the purview of senior managers. They don't need a cadre of overpaid, underworked bureaucrats duplicating (or misinterpreting or even opposing) the efforts of senior executives to get formulate and implement a business strategy (for a single-unit organization) or a corporate strategy (for a diversified enterprise).
That said, I don't doubt that there are businesses out there with a 'Department of Strategy Management' (or something similar-sounding). But those are likely to occur either in monopolies (in the U.S., investor-owned public utilities are one excample) or in organizations that are imposing sub-normal returns on investors by creating needless overhead expenses (such as a 'strategy management organization'). So, in my less-than-humble opinion, this is one bad, bad idea.
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