Assignment 3 - Strategy Perspectives

Activity: Using the ABI Inform/Proquest, download a copy of Henry Mintzbergs article entitled: The Strategy Concept I: Five Ps for Strategy. The article can be found in the California Management Review (1987), Volume 30, Issue1, 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 companys 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?