IT Strategy
Real-life strategy, whether your own or a company’s, is an ongoing process of dealing with critical challenges and deciding what consequential actions to take. Some challenges are long-term and broad in scope. Others are more immediate blockages, or sudden opportunities, encountered on the way forward. In all cases, strategy is the process of confr
... See moreRichard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
when you speak of “strategy,” you should not be simply marking the pay grade of the decision maker. Rather, the term “strategy” should mean a cohesive response to an important challenge. Unlike a stand-alone decision or a goal, a strategy is a coherent set of analyses, concepts, policies, arguments, and actions that respond to a high-stakes challen
... See moreRichard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Having a coherent strategy—one that coordinates policies and actions. A good strategy doesn’t just draw on existing strength; it creates strength through the coherence of its design. Most organizations of any size don’t do this. Rather, they pursue multiple objectives that are unconnected with one another or, worse, that conflict with one another.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Having a coherent strategy—one that coordinates policies and actions. A good strategy doesn’t just draw on existing strength; it creates strength through the coherence of its design. Most organizations of any size don’t do this. Rather, they pursue multiple objectives that are unconnected with one another or, worse, that conflict with one another.
... See moreRichard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
A strategy is a plan for achieving an objective. Tactics, in contrast, are the actions you take to implement the strategy. We often lose sight of the strategy, fixate on the tactics and the tools, and become dependent on them. But tools, as author Neil Gaiman reminds us, “can be the subtlest of traps.”
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
To be a strategist you will have to keep your actions and policies coherent with each other, not nullifying your efforts by having too many different initiatives or conflicting purposes. These facts are rarely written or spoken about with honesty. We are told that strategy is about having an advantage (duh!). That it is about having a long-term vis
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