Journal article
Strategy made simple: Thinking in threes
Business horizons, v 56(1), pp 105-111
Jan 2013
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Abstract
In this increasingly complex world, managers understandably seek experts’ advice to chart a path forward. Yet they encounter a jumble of metaphors, methods, and models; too often, old wine in new bottles. This article helps managers cut through the clutter. It presents a triangular framework which integrates concepts that, despite contrasting language, are more similar than different. The schema is based on the three kinds of Venn diagram: disjunction, containment, and intersection. Disjunction implies autonomy; containment, control; and intersection, cooperation. Every organizational strategy is a balance of these three variables. Once the triadic pattern has been grasped, managers can ‘speed-read’ the literatures on strategy, technology/organization, mergers and acquisitions, and cognition—as well as see parallels across these writings. They also become better able to address strategic issues systemically and efficiently, and to communicate to a wide organizational audience.
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- Title
- Strategy made simple: Thinking in threes
- Creators
- Robert W. Keidel - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Business horizons, v 56(1), pp 105-111
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000313917100012
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84871003646
- Other Identifier
- 991019168098204721
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