Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.”

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As Henry Mintzberg noted in The Structuring of Organizations in 1979, “The words centralization and decentralization have been bandied about for as long as anyone has cared to write about organizations.” As a consequence, it is rather wasteful for each of the units to develop these solutions in parallel.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

And thinking is in fact quite an important activity when it comes to assessing and developing a strategy. The CEO of a large, global bank once told me: “It is very easy for someone in my position to be very busy all the time. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8