Summary: Organization And Environment

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• HC2: Design & Planning

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• What is the difference between prescriptivism and descriptivism?

  Prescriptivism =Concerned with how strategies should be formulated rather than with how they necessarily do form.
  Descriptivism =Not concerned with ideal behaviour, but describing how strategies do, actually, get made

• What are the 4 basic approaches to strategy formation?

  1. Planning (deliberate & tangible) 
  2. Venturing (emergent & tangible)
  3. Visioning (deliberate & broad)
  4. Learning (emergent & broad)

• What are the 3 tasks of the strategist in the design school?

  1. Gather information
  2. Analyse information 
  3. Organize information

• The ideal course of strategy formation according to the design school has four steps. Name the steps.

  1. Analysis 
  2. Creation
  3. Evaluation and choice
  4. Implementation

• Which of the schools started in the military?

  Planning school. In both business and military organization must adapt to
  
  
  
  change and constantly improve. But the difference lies in the fact that businesses assume competition and the military assumes conflict. 

• The ideal source of strategy formation according to the planning school has five steps. Name the steps

  1. Set objectives 
  2. Analyse the situation 
  3. Create scenarios 
  4. Operationalize 
  5. Schedule 

• HC3: Positioning & Entrepreneurial

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• Within the positioning school we distinguish 3 waves. Name the 3 waves

  1. Military
  2. Consulting
  3. Industrial organisations/ recent work on empirical propositions 

• The military wave of the positioning school talks about Maxims. What are maxims?

  Open doors, lessons learnt form the military (Sun Tzu)

• What are the 5 steps in the Porterian adaptation of the positioning school?

  1. Analyse industry
  2. Identify positions 
  3. Decide which position you want to have or create 
  4. Occupy or create position
  5. Defend 

• What are the 3 characteristics of a vision?

  1. Gives a sense what needs to be done and provides direction 
     
  2. Tends to be an image (not a full blown plan) 
  3. Is flexible and can be adapted