Summary
Supporting Strategy develops the concept of the strategicdevelopment process. The book begins by describing a balancedprocess for strategy development, spanning direction setting,strategy creation, rehearsal, evaluation and choice, leading to acontinuous process of adopting strategic initiatives. It then goeson to present a practical collection of frameworks, methods andmodels which both individually and in combination can be used tosupport strategy. The collection includes: drama theory, visioningmethods, problem structuring methods, resource based view ofstrategy, SWOT / TOWS analysis, system dynamics, agent basedmodelling, scenario planning, decision and risk analysis, financialevaluation, real options, robustness analysis and performancemeasurement.
This is a contributed work with original content written fro thebook from leading academics in the field, including MaureenMeadows, Robert Berry, Jim Bryant, Adrian Caldart, Alberto Franco,Giles Hindle, Nigel Howard, Martin Kunc, Abhijit Mandal, GilbertoMontibeller, John Morecroft, Martin Murtland, Fernando Oliveira,and Efstathios Tapinos.
