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Formalization
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Strategy Statement
- What is yor company strategy?
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Deliberate Scope and Advantage
- What is your most important choice of "where to compete" in terms of productis, geography or customers?
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Deliberate Strategic Distinctiviness. Mode of Competing.
- If I asked your customers, how your company differs from the competition, either in products/services yo offer or in the way yo provide them, what could they say?
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Development
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Proactive Scanning. Proactivity and External Focus.
- How do you tipically first come to consider changes to strategy?
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Evidence-based Decisions. Strategy selection-relevant information.
- What type of information do yhou use to select a strategic change rather than its alternatives?
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Regular Stategy Meetings. Strategy Development - Frequency.
- How often do strategy development meetings take place? Are these recurring themes across strategy development meetings?
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Effective Strategy Meetings. Strategic Development - Involvement.
- How are strategy development meeting prepared? Wht ins the typical structure? Who participates? What is the role of the different participants?
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Exploration of Alternatives
- Do you tipically consider alternatives to given possible strategic change? How much information on theses alternatives is tehere? How do you tipically first come to consider these alternatives?
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Systematic Risk Evaluation. Structured Criticism.
- When you are considering a strategic change, when and hoe do people express potential concerns?
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Implementation
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Implementation Planning
- When you make a strategic decision, which implementation details are clear and what remains to be figured out?
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Effective Strategy Reviews
- How do you review the progress of a strategic change?
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Learning from Outcomes
- How would you tipically know whether a satrategic change has succeeded or failed? What happens if a strategic change does not meet your expectations?
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Strategy Communication
- When and how are employees outside top management tipically informed about strategic changes?
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Resistance Accommodation. Resistance to Change.
- There might somatimes be individuals opposed to a strategic change? How do find out about them? Are you usually able to overcome their resistance? If so, how?