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Strategy and Strategic Decisions

By: Eric Van den Steen
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  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:10
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Abstract

This note introduces a framework for formulating strategy that helps a manager identify which decisions are strategic—and thus which decisions to focus on (both when developing strategy and when executing it)—and that provides a practical test for whether a particular set of choices is a strategy. The framework is based on the definition of strategy as "the smallest set of choices to optimally guide the other choices."

Keywords

Formulating Strategy; Strategic Theory; Strategy Test; Strategic Analysis; Strategy; Theory; Strategic Planning

Citation

Van den Steen, Eric. "Strategy and Strategic Decisions." Harvard Business School Technical Note 712-500, June 2012. (Revised December 2017.)
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Eric J. Van den Steen

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