Conventional strategy planning has failed to deliver, whereas this Strategy Engineering method could deliver improvement long range.
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Basic Idea: conventional strategy planning has failed to deliver from 90% to 98% of the time, according to Clegg (Textbook Author). The purpose has always been to deliver improvement long range. So, we have examined current bad practices, and suggested a substantial new orientation: the use of quantified multidimensional engineering methods, rapid value-delivery incrementation, instead of a financially-oriented word-bath.
The Strategy Engineering method is completely free for anyone to use. Creative Commons. No fees, permissions, licenses, certifications. Free books, papers, slides, case studies. People are free to apply it in their own writings, courses, and services, non-exclusively. Let us up the success % to 99.5%.
Review of Highlights from Early Chapters
- Chapter 0 Strategy Engineering in Practice
- Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
- Chapter 2 The EVO-Ring
- Chapter 3 Management Engineering
- Chapter 4 Successful Strategies Comparison
- Chapter 5: The Planning Arts Which Compliment the Planning Engineering Processes.
- Chapter 8: Top level Strategic Area Determination
- Chapter 9: Visualization of Strategy Components and Relationships
- Chapter 10 Example of vastly improving conventional strategy advice, like Roger L Martin’s
- Chapter 11 The ‘ETX’ Meta Strategy
- Chapter 12 Value Improvement (‘VI’): Re-thinking Strategy, avoiding the obsolete term, The S word.
- Chapter 13 Strategy Silliness: organizing the knowledge of bad common ‘strategy’ practices
- Chapter 14 How to get in the door, with Strategy Engineering. Simplifying the start.
- Chapter 15 The flying start. The Crux. Making sure you are aligned and focussed
- Chapter 16 ‘EVO’ Proving Big Bets Will Work
- Chapter 17 The ‘magic calculator’ IET
- Chapter 18 Defining ‘Strategy'
Based on the ’Strategy-Ring' FREE book manuscript.
About the speaker
Tom Gilb was born in California 1940, lived in the UK 1956-58, Norway 1958 to present. Joined IBM 1958.
Consulted for a very wide variety of organisations, and managed to influence some of them in interesting and well documented ways. See ‘PPPP’ below.
Tom is an Honorary Fellow of BCS. See Gilb.com for more details. Tom is the author of thirteen paper books, dozens of E-books, and hundreds of papers on a wide variety of subjects. His book ‘Competitive Engineering’ is a substantial definition of systems engineering ideas. His works are at Researchgate All free, and https://leanpub.com/u/tomgilb (free samples)
Many BCS and other videos by Tom are at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tom+gilb, and at the BCS SPA video site https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-
Tom has guest lectured at universities all over UK, Europe, China, India, USA, Korea – and has been a keynote speaker at dozens of technical conferences internationally.
There are very many organisations and individuals who use some or all of Gilb methods. IBM and HP were two early corporate adopters. Over the recent 20 years, 20,000 engineers at Intel have adopted his ‘Planguage’ requirements and design methods. Some case studies of the use of his methods are in ‘Powerful Ploys for Problems, using Planguage’, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384054757_PPPP_Powerful_Ploys_for_Problems/, which includes an updated references section with free publications, up to 2024.
Tom is 84, retired, living in Norway. He follows up electronically daily, and his highest wish is to spread useful ideas to the next generation.
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