Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
—Miyamoto Musashi, Samurai
Chapter 3
Strategies
What’s the use of running, if you are not on the right road.
—German proverb
The concept of strategic thinking, and strategies in general, has been in existence for a long time, much longer than the emergence of computers and computer-based information systems. The term is familiar from its early use in military strategies. Nowadays we frequently come across its usage in investment strategies, election strategies, treatment strategies, chess strategies, etc. Such strategies are planned with a view to help us win.
Strategy has many definitions. ...
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