Your Strategy Needs A Strategy -
Rapidly changing, unpredictable environments where industry leaders cannot control the rules (e.g., fashion or tech).
Focus on survival first—restructuring, cutting costs, and preserving capital—to clear a path for a future growth strategy. Goal: Free up resources to ensure long-term vitality. Strategic Steps to Proceed your strategy needs a strategy
Unpredictable environments that you can influence. This often involves high-growth industries with nascent standards. Can you change it
Is your market predictable? Can you change it? Is it currently hostile to your survival? 4. Shaping: "Be the Orchestrator"
Move away from long-term planning. Instead, rely on continuous experimentation and rapid adjustment. Goal: Serial temporary advantage. 3. Visionary: "Be First"
Avoid the "classical trap" of applying 5-year plans to unpredictable markets.
See an opportunity and pursue it single-mindedly to build something that doesn't yet exist. Goal: Create or recreate an industry. 4. Shaping: "Be the Orchestrator"