Book description
A NEW CLARITY FOR STRATEGY THEORY AND PRACTICE
Consultants and academics continue to report chronic failures of strategy practice.Two causes dominate: strategy is still not fully defined, and strategy practice is still largely based on a planned versus adaptive view of the world. The Emergent Approach to Strategy digs deep into complex adaptive systems to bring a new clarity to strategy function and incorporate this understanding into practice.
The emergent approach practice includes:
- An agile method for strategy framework design
- Scenario and bottleneck diagnosis techniques
- A four-station dashboard emphasizing execution
- A new set of strategy tests called the five disqualifiers
Go to emergentapproach.com to access the following resources:
- Chapter supplements with appendixes, commentary, and added examples
- Five Task Sets: a guidebook for implementation of the approach
- Templates for use in strategy materials
- Additional examples of the Five Disqualifiers in various fields of endeavor
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Description
- Contents
- Online Content
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Chronic Strategy Problem
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Part I A New Theory of Strategy
- Chapter 1 One More Time: Defining Strategy
- Chapter 2 A Primer on Adaptation and Emergence
- Chapter 3 The Killer Problems of Change and Innovation
- Chapter 4 The Limitations of Aspirations, Plans, and Metrics
- Chapter 5 The Creative Power of Strategy as a Central Rule
- Chapter 6 Both Strategy and Tactics are for “Winning Wars”
- Chapter 7 Nested Frameworks to Integrate Organizations
- Chapter 8 The Five Disqualifiers of Strategy
- Chapter 9 What Is Execution?
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Part II The Design and Implementation of Frameworks and Their Strategies
- Chapter 10 The Strategy Alternative Matrix
- Chapter 11 Agile-Parallel Design
- Chapter 12 Values, Proposition, External Constraints, and Aspirations
- Chapter 13 Designing Scenarios
- Chapter 14 Finding Bottlenecks
- Chapter 15 Designing Fitness Criteria and Making Assessments
- Chapter 16 Design Principles for Strategy Alternatives
- Chapter 17 Evolving the SAM as a Whole
- Chapter 18 The Four-Station Dashboard
- Chapter 19 Transitioning to Implementation
- Outro: The Heroic Leader
- Notes
- References
- About the Author
- Index
- Backcover
Product information
- Title: The Emergent Approach to Strategy
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2022
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781637422168
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