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Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it.
We’re not the first to propose that strategy borrows from design; in HBR articles, Henry Mintzberg drew the analogy with the potter throwing a bowl and Roger Martin has made an explicit connection with design. An approach that we think might work better would be to treat strategy making as if it were a design process.
Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). An automobile company might have bought a supplier of its batteries, or created its own dealerships. He is the author or coauthor of 21 books. Structuring in Sevens.
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