By Chally Kacelnik
The article: How to Pressure Test Your Strategic Vision by Theodore Kinni at Insights by Stanford Business
What I think: Have you ever encountered an organisational strategy that looked really slick and visionary, but fell apart if you poked at it a little? Maybe you’ve been in an organisation that had a strategy that sounded really great, but wasn’t actually implemented and followed. Stanford Graduate School of Business professors Jesper Sørensen and Glenn Carroll stress reasoned analysis – over and above vision and opportunity – as key to strategic success. They suggest some tools that are a solid starting point for getting rigour into strategy making. Strategy should be built in a systematic way that enables it to be communicated and understood by anyone who needs to. All too often, you end up with strategy that accommodates the squeakiest wheel or doesn’t account for underlying assumptions. It’s vital to be able to identify those links and have a constructive process for building strategy, supporting everyone to contribute.
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