Dr Tobias Jung

CCE Charity Talk October 2011

Strategy – taking stock

Strategy – the Holy Grail?

The mystique…

http://www.lapiana.org/downloads/LaPianaConsulting_RTSP_CEN_Workshop.pdf

Good intentions don’t 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

Mintzberg, H (1987) The Strategy Concept I: Five Ps For Strategy, California Management Review 30(1): 11-24

Strategy as ‘post hoc’rationalisation of success?

How?...Slightly lost?

• Environmental

• Cognitive

• Entrepreneurial

• Power

• Positioning

• Cultural

• Planning

• Learning

• Design

• Configuration

The Strategy Safari

Mintzberg, J, B Ahlstrand and J Lampel, 2008

Problems with strategy research

Need for a change of perspective?

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

Implementation

Hadley, J, L Lanzerotti, and A Nathan (2011), Living Into Your Strategic Plan: A Guide to Implementation That Gets Results, The Bridgespan Group

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Winston Churchill