Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach

At Business Digest, we could not miss this book in which three experts from BCG offer you to slow down the pace to choose the strategy that suits you better.” Business DigestIn depth explanations of each of these approaches will provide critical insights to help leaders match their approach to strategy to their environment, helping to determine when and how to execute each one, and avoid a potentially fatal mismatch.” Consulting magazineADVANCE PRAISE for Your Strategy Needs a Strategy:Ian C. Read, Chairman and CEO, PfizerReeves, Haanæs, and Sinha’s strategy palette’ deftly illustrates the core approaches that can lead to success within the complex world of global business. Clear and comprehensive, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy is a must-read for business leaders seeking a fresh take on strategy and implementation.”Marco Airoldi, CEO, Benetton GroupF

Should you aim to be big or fast? Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win—or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether? In a business environment that is changing faster and becoming more uncertain and complex almost by the day, it’s never been more important—or more difficult—to choose the right approach to strategy. In-depth explanations of each of these approaches will provide critical insight to help you match your approach to strategy to your environment, determine when and how to execute each one, and avoid a potentially fatal mismatch.Addressing your most pressing strategic challenges, you’ll be able to answer questions such as:•What replaces planning when the annual cycle is obsolete? •When can we—and when should we—shape the game to our advantage? •How do we simultaneously implement different strategic approaches for different business units? •How do we manage the inherent contradictions in formulating and executing different strategies across multiple businesses and geographies?Until now, no

Emmanuel L said THE BEST BOOK ON STRATEGY FOR A LONG TIME TO COME - IT WILL DEFINE STRATEGY FOR YEARS. The best strategy book I have after Michael Porter's books written in the 1980s. The beauty about this book is that it integrates many of the disparate strategic tools into cohesive strategic approaches. The gist is that your strategy should be based on deep understanding of . An excellent overview of the field of strategy, some uncertainty regarding the value and novelty of the concept of ambidexterity Grim Gjønnes Reading Reeves et al.’s book “Your strategy needs a strategy” could be done with two distinct starting points: i) this book is an overview of main strains of thought in business strategy; or ii) it adds something in addition to same in the form of a meta-lay. "Five-star Great! For Orienting, Aligning, Thinking, Organizing, Integrating and Synthesizing Business Strategy" according to Richard S Melrose. Bottom line: Reeves et al. have made a masterful contribution. The Strategy Palette will help business leaders match their strategic approaches to their business environments, and then up their game on an ongoing basis through "ambidextrous animation" of their world of possib