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Methods of Formulating Strategies

In: Developing Managerial Information Systems

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  • Andrew M. McCosh
  • Mawdudur Rahman
  • Michael J. Earl

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We have seen in the last chapter what a strategy is. In the chapters to follow we shall consider strategic forecasting and the management of strategic databases. In this one we are concerned with devising a procedure for formulating strategy. The modern corporation, especially the larger ones, cannot normally adopt the free-ranging opportunistic style. There is inevitably a degree of inertia which comes with size and with success. It would be very easy for a firm to adopt the null strategy which we discussed in Chapter 12. Nonetheless, almost every top manager would agree that his company would not pursue the null strategy. He would say that its adoption would lead in the medium-to-long term to a moribund company, to which he would have no desire to remain affiliated. But how does a company set about a job of formulating new strategies? What machinery must it set up?

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  • Andrew M. McCosh & Mawdudur Rahman & Michael J. Earl, 1981. "Methods of Formulating Strategies," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Developing Managerial Information Systems, chapter 13, pages 310-330, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03631-8_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03631-8_13
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