Strategy Development Process

Question 1

Understand what is meant by deliberate and emergent strategy development.

Identify deliberate processes of strategy development in organizations including: the role of strategic leadership, strategic planning systems and externally imposed strategy.

Answer 1

Identify processes that give rise to emergent strategy development such as: logical incrementalism, political processes and organisational structures and systems.

Understand some of the challenges of managing strategy development in organisations.

Question 2

What is deliberate strategy and how can it arise?

Answer 2

Deliberate strategy involves intentional formulation or planning followed by implementation.

Deliberate strategy can arise through:
* The intentionality of strategic leaders
* Strategic planning systems
* External imposition of strategy

Question 3

What is emergent strategy and how can it arise?

Answer 3

When strategies emerge on the basis of a series of decisions, which forms a pattern that becomes clear over time

Through:
* Logical Incrementalism
* Political processes
* Org systems and processes

Question 4

What is unrealised strategy?

Answer 4

When aspects of a deliberate strategy are not realised in practice. E.g. goal to improve customer service but company doesn’t improve at all. Its unrealised.

Question 5

What is unrealised strategy?

Answer 5

When aspects of a deliberate strategy are not realised in practice. E.g. goal to improve customer service but company doesn’t improve at all. Its unrealised.

Question 6

What is strategic drift?

Answer 6

Where strategies fail to keep pace with the current environment and hence lead to a companies demise if not rectified.