The Future of Strategy: A Transformative Approach to Strategy for a World That Won’t Stand Still

 

CHAPTER 2

Organizational Inclusiveness

Tomorrow’s business imperatives lie outside the performance envelope of today’s bureaucracy-infused management practices.

—GARY HAMEL¹

IN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, we assessed the impact of, and the opportunities created by, the fundamental drivers of change. In this chapter, we look at ways to create a broad strategic understanding throughout the organization, and the most natural transition to making strategy happen.

Hierarchy as an Information Processing System

It’s important to understand why a traditional approach of top-down sequential strategy formulation and execution doesn’t work in today’s fast-changing, ...