13nd School of Thought on Strategic Management: The Case School

Looking and Seeking Opportunities for the Organization
Victor Manuel Meneses Torres, Consultant, Mexico, Member
You say that in an organization somebody is entitled to look and seek for opportunities. I don't think there should be a person or an area specificall...

Every Organization Has Been Built on Opportunities
Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member
Taking care of new opportunities is the foremost objective of the board. They are entitled to do so. They have to do it if they claim to act as entrep...

Looking and Seeking Opportunities for the Organization
Tito Rafael Hidalgo Barcia, Strategy Consultant, Ecuador, Member
I must add that institutions are made by people, and also made for specific needs or wants of the people.
Within an institution, people from the ...

Opportunity is a Relative Issue
Dilip Khanal, CEO, Nepal, Member
Mr. Keim, you have floated a pertinent issue for discussion. To answer the question you raised, we should go back to the basic business an organizatio...

Holistic Approach to Change or Opportunities
Dr Vijay Phate, Director, India, Member
I practice Holistic Management which focuses on the appropriate fitness at structural, process, technology, people and environment level.
Due to ...

Opportunity in Strategic Management
Dr. N.V.S.Raju, Professor, India, Member
My basic doubt is:
- Should we take an opportunity as and when it comes? Or
- Should we wait till the opportunity comes?
- Should we ra...

Seizing Opportunities - Dare to Be Bold!
Owambo, Manager, Kenya, Member
I believe no organization should have exclusive people who are in charge of sighting and capitalizing on opportunities. With an ever changing market, ...

Opportunities Exist Constantly Via Acceptance for 'Change.'
Bill Boynton, Teacher, United States, Member
Opportunities are endless if organizations can look for and address a change mentality, mission statement, and "Vision" that focus on learning and gro...

Identifying and Strategising Opportunities
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
In my opinion:
1. Businesses do not and are not capable of identifying opportunities - people do.
2. Every person in a business should be lo...

You Have to Change if You Want to Prevail
Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member
@Andrew Blaine: Indeed only people can change make happen and the company is their vehicle. A company itself is blin...

Opportunity is Perceived Differently by Different People
Dilip Khanal, CEO, Nepal, Member
May be the following example helps the discussion:
A medicine company front line staff brought the information that the pill they were selling wa...

A Company is Simply a Vehicle
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
@Bernhard Keim: I disagree. I see a company, as with a business, simply as a vehicle. Management, Directors and Sta...

If Things Were That Simple, the World Would Be a Different Place
Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member
@Andrew Blaine: What you recommend is a command and control style of management. But as a company is a social syste...

Tear the Hurdles Down
Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member
@Dilip Khanal: I think this is a very good example of a hidden opportunity and I call it my "Hurdle Theory". There ...

Decision Making and Management
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
@Bernhard Keim: I disagree with your view. I do not recommend a hierarchical management system where management disp...