Updated on 05/25/11 v4.a

About Strategy

Strategy is the process whereby senior management anticipates future market, business, societal and human conditions and makes strategic bets to position their organizations to fulfill its purpose and mission , i.e. "to profit" under changing or emerging conditions.  Strategy can include industry, market, product or geographical focus, organizational forms, capital structure, mix of goods and services, pricing, business, manufacturing, distribution models, etc. Together these are a complex set of parameters which must be considered in formulating a useful vision of the future. The alternatives which can be identified are constrained  largely by the mental models of the executives, the culture and biography of the organization, time and resources available for strategic analysis,  and the way leaders interpret the environment and define meaning.  Other factors such as government and market changes, industry structure, competitor initiatives and the organization's capacities, cost structure, innovative potential and productivity also can materially affect corporate performance. Therefore, it is important to provide a strategic analysis framework which makes future success possible. 

KMA provides a unique, adaptable strategy framework incorporating the spectrum from "classical" and "value chain" analysis -Porter, BCG; "creative destruction" and "disruptive innovation" - McKinsey, Foster; "Visionary Companies" - Collins, "innovation" - Christensen, and others to leading edge emergent ideas including complexity, deep force alignment, systems thinking, development, and humans, organizations and societies as unique, purposeful systems within an integral, coherent whole. 

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