What is Strategy?

Strategy is a plan, or something equivalent a direction, a guide or course of action into the future, a path to get from here to there.
Strategy is also a pattern, that is, consistency in behaviour over time
Strategy is position, namely the determination of particular markets.
Strategy is perspective, namely on organization's way of doing things. As position, strategy looks down to the ‘x' that marks the spot where the product meets the customer. It looks out to the external market place. As perspective, in contrast, strategy looks in, inside the organisation, indeed, inside the head of the collective strategist. But it also looks up, to the grand vision of the enterprise.

Intentions that are fully realized can be called deliberate strategies. Those that are not realized at all can be called unrealised strategies. The literature of planning recognises both cases, with an obvious preference for the former. What it does not recognize is the third case,......

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