The Emergent Approach to Strategy: Adaptive Design & Execution

A NEW CLARITY FOR STRATEGY THEORY AND PRACTICE

Consultants and academics continue to report chronic failures of strategy practice.Two causes dominate: strategy is still not fully defined, and strategy practice is still largely based on a planned versus adaptive view of the world. The Emergent Approach to Strategy digs deep into complex adaptive systems to bring a new clarity to strategy function and incorporate this understanding into practice.

The emergent approach practice includes:

An agile method for strategy framework designScenario and bottleneck diagnosis techniquesA four-station dashboard emphasizing executionA new set of strategy tests called the five disqualifiersGo to emergentapproach.com to access the following resources:

Chapter supplements with appendixes, commentary, and added examplesFive Task Sets: a guidebook for implementation of the approachTemplates for use in strategy materialsAdditional examples of the Five Disqualifiers in various fields of endeavor