Stacey’s strategy from complexity

You want the benefits of complexity for ideas and knowledge creation but you usually don’t want to tip into full-blown chaos. And you want simplicity for getting the most out of the strategy you have discovered, but not so much that there is never anything new.

A 2 by 2 matrix illustrates Stacey’s strategy from complexity.

Stacey’s strategy from complexity

Source: Stacey, R. C., Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics: the challenge of complexity to ways of thinking about organisations, Pearson Education, 2010

How to use

The idea here is to understand that strategy is created (and used) in a context. The situation outside the company has different levels of ...

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