Strategy and Business Process Management

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The Derivative Analysis Technique for Business Strategy and Resource Alignment

Derivative analysis is a disciplined approach to facilitate discussion and debate among executives and managers during strategic planning sessions. Its techniques enable participants to derive and structure the resources necessary to execute a chosen strategy by calling to action the sage advice from the thought leaders discussed in Section I. These include the lessons from the following:

• Porter, on how best to structure activities to form a competitive value chain ...