What Is Strategy?¶
Porter, M. E. (1996). What Is Strategy?. Harvard Business Review, 74(6), 61-78.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Goal Congruence (Alignment)
- Mature practice distinguishes core strategic objective (which should be stable) from operational metrics (which should adapt), and builds flexibility in how targets are met while preserving alignment to outcomes
This sourceArgues strategy is a coherent, stable system of trade-offs and fit among activities (distinct from operational effectiveness).
- Mature practice distinguishes core strategic objective (which should be stable) from operational metrics (which should adapt), and builds flexibility in how targets are met while preserving alignment to outcomes
- Goal Shielding
- In organisational strategy a firm's chosen positioning requires suppressing the resource pull of attractive alternatives — strategy as saying no — with strategy drift as the failure mode.
This sourceStrategy as choosing a unique position and deliberately saying no to attractive alternatives via trade-offs; failure to sustain the trade-offs is strategy drift.
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Porter defines strategy as choosing what not to do, has leaders "say no", and shows growth temptations blurring and decaying a strategic position.
“Managers are constantly tempted to take incremental steps that surpass those limits but blur a company’s strategic position.”
- In organisational strategy a firm's chosen positioning requires suppressing the resource pull of attractive alternatives — strategy as saying no — with strategy drift as the failure mode.
Domain-specific¶
- Value Proposition
- Where the proposition is absent or diffuse, those functions proceed without a shared referent and tend to diverge.
This sourcePorter's account of fit, in which first-order fit is simple consistency between each activity or function and the overall strategy, and its absence shows up as inconsistencies across functions.
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“First-order fit is simple consistency between each activity (function) and the overall strategy.”
- Where the proposition is absent or diffuse, those functions proceed without a shared referent and tend to diverge.
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