Activity: Using the ABI Inform$/$Proquest$,$ download a copy of Henry Mintzberg$$s article

entitled: $$The Strategy Concept I: Five Ps for Strategy$.$ The article can be found in the

California Management Review $(1987),$ Volume $30,$ Issue$1,$ pp$.11-24$

Summarize in a sentence or two each of the following perspectives of strategy:

Plan:

Ploy:

Pattern:

Position:

Perspective:

$1.$ Which perspective discussed by Mintzberg most closely represents your view of

strategy? Why?

$2.$ At this point in the simulation exercise, which view most closely represents the

view of your management team?

$3.$ Looking back on the past couple of rounds of your company$$s performance, is

there anything you would like to have changed with respect to your strategy?

$4.$ How has your view of strategy changed since embarking on the simulation

exercise?