Chandler famously argued that structure follows strategy

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1. Alfred Chandler famously argued that "structure follows strategy." While his study of large, American, MNC's demonstrated that this is true for that type of business, it has not proven true in the experience of generals leading military organizations, which after all is where the whole concept of strategy is derived.

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2. At GE, Jack Welch used the CAP (Change Acceleration Process) at Crotonville to do strategic planning and to "make change stick" in GE. The key to the whole Crotonville process, the glue that held all of the elements together, was to use "learning by doing" to help GE managers learn how to learn, so that they could learn how to lead rapid change, so that they could learn how to develop, implement, and evaluate strategy effectively.

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3. In game theory, a dominant strategy is better in some eventualities, and not worse in any. A competitor has a dominant strategy when he has one course of action that outperforms all others no matter wht the other compoetitors do. Consequently, one "rule" of sound game theory is this: "If you have a dominant strategy, use it."

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4. Thinking about it logically, only changes in the external environment can render strategies ineffective or obsolete. Changes in the internal environment of the organization do not really affect the competitive position of the organization.

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