Strategievorming - Strategy formation - Perspectives on strategy formation
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What are the two diametrically opposed pole positions about deliberateness and emergence?
- Strategic planning perspective
- Strategic incrementalism perspective
What is characteristic of the strategic planning perspective?
What are the difficulties of strategic planning?
- Plan will always be based on assumptions about the future
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- contigency plans
- regular reviews and realigning plans
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Who do strategies emerge according to incrementalists?
Strategy formation is essentially an innovation process. It is a disruptive process of organizational change.
Which weaknesses of planning show up when confronted with a wicked problem according to incrementalists?
- Problems cannot be simply recognized and analysed, but can be interpreted and defined in many ways
- A full analysis of a wicked problem is impossible
- Developing a comprehensive plan to tackle a wicked problem is asking for trouble
- Planners who believe that formulation and implementation can be separated underestimate the extent to which wicked problems are interactive.
- Strategy has to do with the future and the future is inherently unknown
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