When you observe strategic planning processes in different organizations it is possible to find “closed shop” planning processes. In some cases only top manager “develop” the strategy, in other situations they are supported by specialised departments. Various sources in the academic literature have discussed and criticized the disadvantages of this approach. But why is it [...]

In a former post I discussed whether companies have a strategy or not. So, we found out that there are some options that strategies might not exist in your organization and that for a very specific reason the absence of strategy could help the organization during a certain intermediate step. I have to stress “very [...]

Sometimes during discussions I receive the question, whether there is a link between learning organizations, knowledge and strategic planning. My answer is “yes” and I would like to illustrate this matter a little bit more. Before I start I have to define the term “learning organization”: In general the learning organization can be described as an [...]