Corporate Strategy (Remastered) I

Paul Hunter (DBA) is Founder and CEO of the Strategic Management Institute and past partner at PwC. He works on a global stage consulting and teaching. He is also the author of The Seven Inconvenient Truths of Business Strategy (2014) and a chapter contributor in Corporate Universities: Drivers of the Learning Organization (Rademakers, 2014).

• Introduction Corporate Strategy (Remastered) Concept of Corporate Strategy (Remastered)How to use this book Ansoff’s Corporate Planning legacy 1 Concept of Corporate Strategy (Remastered) Introduction: evolution of Third Wave Strategy Where to strategy and strategy practice?Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: the emergence of Third Wave StrategyDimensions of Third Wave Strategy: bringing strategy back from the brinkThird Wave Strategy as practice: things that Third Wave Strategy practitioners doThird Wave Strategy in a nutshellSumming up2 Articulating Long Term StrategyIntroduction: contextualising the evolution of Long Term Strategy practiceCorporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: Long Term, Third Wave Strategy and the Strategic ArchitectureOrganisational Purpose, Mission, Vision: the foundation of Long Term StrategyStrategic environment for Long Term, Third Wave Strategy: influence of external and internal forcesOutside In, external influencesInside Out, internal influencesOperation and management of a Strategic ArchitectureThe Strategic Architecture as a tool of Deliberate Disruption3 Reinventing Strategic PlanningIntroduction: the notion of Strategy EvaluationCorporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: Strategy Evaluation within the context of Third Wave StrategyProgram of Strategy Evaluation: Strategy Evaluation, Shaping and ReviewingPreparing a Strategy NarrativeEstablishing a Strategy BlueprintAssessing the human element of Strategy EvaluationOrganisational learning and Third Wave Strategy4 Implementing Third Wave StrategyIntroduction: the challenge of implementing Short Term StrategyCorporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: content and context of Strategy Implementation activitiesA Program of Continual Strategy Renewal: the enabler of long term transformational change in the short termAdaptive and inventive strategic change: a Cycle of Organisational Transformation and RenewalSMI’s Cycle of Organisational Transformation and RenewalDeveloping a definitive Pathway to Regeneration5 Strategic AlignmentIntroduction: the mystique of Strategic AlignmentCorporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: identifying the touch points of Strategic AlignmentStrategic Alignment touch points in the context of Third Wave StrategyResolving conflict of Alignment with the external environment6 Future strategy practiceIntroduction: building momentumSprouting a clean, fresh, new opportunity: Green Shoot Strategy and accelerated Deliberate DisruptionWhat might be: a Green Shoot Disruption and the corporation of the futureGovernance reform and the corporation of the futureOpen strategy revisited: how to be what you can’t seeCorporate governance of the future: managing strategic riskWill there be a fourth wave of strategy?Final word: what are you waiting for