1st Edition
Strategy Savvy Balanced Strategy Development Approach Using Insights, Culture, Operations, and Digitization
With the COVID-19 pandemic, many business leaders question the need for strategy and the value of strategic planning and management in today’s environment. This book will demonstrate that our approach to strategy development and implementation needs to change to be able to help organizations change. The proposed new approach in this book can provide insights and perspectives to keep strategy relevant by "Putting Strategy in Action" through developing a "Making the Future Happen Today" way of thinking and living.
Many strategy books focus on the perspective of large multinational corporations that have the capacity and capabilities to develop and implement a strategy using very structured methodologies and tools. This book will add a new dimension by focusing on the use of Strategy-as-Practice (SaP), intuition, and serendipity as important complements that can be used by large corporations as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs to develop and implement winning strategies. This is an important dimension to support the strategic decision-making process that is frequently undermined in traditional strategic planning and management-focused books.
The author theorizes that developing into a Strategy Savvy professional is about embracing two of the most important concepts in strategy development—Proactivity and Sustainability. This book addresses the opportunities and threats presented by VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) and how we can capitalize on those opportunities to create unprecedented growth opportunities in Society 5.0 that is shaping new economies, such as the Digital Economy, the Experience Economy, the Sharing Economy, the GIG Economy, the Purpose Economy and the Circular Economy. The author also proposes a new approach to strategy development and implementation that mixes formal planning with practice and intuition that is helped by serendipity. He presents a strategy that is driven by four propellers—insights, culture, operations, and digitization—to ensure arrival at a better future.
Section 1: WHY Do We Need Strategy?
Chapter 1: Do we really need to have a Strategy?
- Making the Future Happen Today
- The VUCA World
- Managing in Extreme Uncertainty
- Operating in Crisis Mode: Discover, Design & Execute
- Does Strategy Matter?
- Strategize or Vanish … Why Good Companies Go Bad?
- How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle
- The Fall of Kodak
Section 2: HOW does Strategy Emerge?
Chapter 2: History & Future of Strategy
- The History of Strategy
- The Future of Strategy
Chapter 3: Planning, Practice, Intuition & Serendipity
- Sustainable to Transient Competitive Advantage
- Formal Strategic Planning (SP)
- Strategy-as-Practice (SaP)
- Three Concepts of Strategy-as-Practice
- Intuition in Strategy
- The Role of Intuition in Managerial Context
- Serendipity As Competitive Advantage
- A Framework for Serendipity
Section 3: WHAT does the Future Hold?
Chapter 4: Society 5.0 & the Future Economies
- The D.A.R.Q Age
- The Evolution of Society 5.0
- The Digital Economy
- The Digital Economy Framework
- The Future Economies
- Experience Economy
- Sharing Economy
- GIG Economy
- Circular Economy
- Purpose Economy
- The Five Walls
Section 4: WHAT to do to Put Strategy in Action?
Chapter 5: Defining the Future and Understanding Today
- Strategy Savvy
- The Strategy Funnel: from Vision to Results
- Defining the future
- Financial Objectives
- Market Objectives
- Operational Objectives
- Organizational Objective
- Understanding Today
- SWOT Analysis… Simple BUT
- EBOR Analysis
- Enablers & Blockers
- Options and Reactions
- Strategic Early Warning System
Chapter 6: Making the Future happen Today
- Design Thinking
- From Design Thinking to design-Led Strategy
- Design Thinking Model - E6²
- Strategy Needs More Than Just Design Thinking
- Four Practices of Integration in Design-Led Strategy
- Innovation D64 Framework
- Focus on the Future
- Create and Innovation Culture
- Design Innovation into your Organization
- Build an Network for Innovation
- Innovation in Practice: Doblin 10-Types of Innovation
Chapter 7: Balanced Strategy Development
- Balanced Strategy Development (BSD) Approach
- Insights-Driven Strategy
- Data-Driven Marketing
- Insights-Driven Business to Drive Value
- Culture-Driven Strategy
- Operations-Driven Strategy
- Operations Strategy – Process
- The Future of Operations – RPA & Industry 4.0
- Digital-Driven Strategy
Chapter 8: Putting Strategy in Action
- Executional Excellence
- Eight Tough Questions to Ask About Strategy
- The Eight Myths of Strategy Execution
- Ten Principles of Strategy through Execution
- Four Pillars of Strategy Execution
- Ten Strategy Stress Tests
- The Future-Today Roadmap
Biography
Hesham Dinana has over 30 years of working experience in strategy, marketing, information technology, customer care and hi-tech manufacturing. In addition, he has more than 15 years of teaching experience both in undergraduate and graduate degree levels. His industry experiences include; healthcare, ICT, real estate, food and agribusiness, oil and gas, furniture, and FMCG. Through his various managerial positions at Philips Medical Systems-North America and his consultancy work in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, his experience and expertise evolved to cover a wide spectrum of business and technical areas with hands-on specialization in strategic management, marketing, healthcare planning, corporate governance, IT management and CRM. Dinana is an assistant professor of integrated marketing communications (IMC) at The American University in Cairo and has taught MBA and DBA courses in strategic and international marketing at Arab Academy for Science and Technology. Dinana has active research agenda in various marketing areas with a focus on digital marketing, entrepreneurship and SME's marketing and the use of the internet-of-things in marketing. He has supervised many MBA theses and DBA dissertations in those areas. Dinana has given numerous interactive talks/training courses to senior and middle managers and served as a speaker at numerous international conferences focusing on strategic and international management, healthcare marketing, and information technology management especially e-marketing and e-health. As the vice president and regional managing director of a leading international consulting group, his consulting projects' engagement level span from one-on-one executive coaching to national-level strategy development initiatives. He is a certified management consultant (CMC) by the UK Institute of Management Consultancy; a certified board director by the Egyptian Institute of Directors; a certified balanced scorecard consultant; a certified management simulation trainer and is a member of the American Management Association, Academy of Management, Association for Service Managers, American College of Healthcare Executives, Egyptian Engineers Syndicate and the Egyptian Society for Quality in Healthcare. As an active member of his community, Dinana has served as a board member at the Egyptian Junior Businessmen Association, the Management Consultants Association, and has been advising the Board of Children Cancer Hospital Foundation 57357 and actively leading the development of their projects since 1998.
