Dr Tobias Jung

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CCE Charity Talk October 2011Strategy taking
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• Dr Tobias Jung

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Strategy the Holy Grail?
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The mystique
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http//www.lapiana.org/downloads/LaPianaConsulting
_RTSP_CEN_Workshop.pdf
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• Good intentions dont move mountains bulldozers
  do. In non-profit management, the mission and
  plan are the good intentions. Strategies are the
  bulldozers. They convert what you want to do into
  accomplishment.
• Peter Drucker

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Strategy as post hoc rationalisation of
success?
Mintzberg, H (1987) The Strategy Concept I Five
Ps For Strategy, California Management Review
30(1) 11-24
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How?...Slightly lost?
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The Strategy Safari

• Environmental
• Cognitive
• Entrepreneurial
• Power
• Positioning
• Cultural
• Planning
• Learning
• Design
• Configuration

Mintzberg, J, B Ahlstrand and J Lampel, 2008
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Problems with strategy research
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Need for a change of perspective?
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A conceptual framework for analysing strategy as
practice
Strategising
Based on Jarzabkowski,, P, J Balogun, D Seidl,
(2007), Strategizing The challenges of a
practice perspective., Human Relations 60(1) 5-27
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Implementation
Hadley, J, L Lanzerotti, and A Nathan (2011),
Living Into Your Strategic Plan A Guide to
Implementation That Gets Results, The Bridgespan
Group
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• However beautiful the strategy, you should
  occasionally look at the results.
• Winston Churchill