Rigidness in plans emphasize that companies must continue to proceed with the planned deliberate strategy irrespective of the changes in the environment. However, political changes, technological advancements, and many other factors affect businesses in various degrees.
These changes sometimes will make the intended strategy implementation impossible. Therefore, most business theorists and practitioners prefer emergent strategy over intended strategy for its flexibility. In general, they view emergent strategy as a method of learning while in operation. Figure 2: Relationship between intended and emergent strategy. The difference between intended and emergent strategies is a distinct one where intended strategies are the strategies that an organization hopes to execute in order to achieve a business objective whereas emergent strategies take a bottom up approach by identifying unforeseen outcomes from the execution of strategy.
Adopting an intended approach is difficult due to many unforeseen changes in the business environment. Every organization should have clear intended strategies; however, strict adherence to them will be difficult to be successful due to the rapidly changing environments, thus, an emergent approach should be adopted when and where necessary.
References: 1. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing edition, , 22 Mar. How Do Strategies Emerge? Mintzberg, Henry, and James A. Image Courtesy: 1. Dili has a professional qualification in Management and Financial Accounting. Before long, Southern Bloomer was selling thousands of pounds of patches per month. A casual trip to a gun store unexpectedly gave rise to a lucrative emergent strategy Wells, A realized strategy is the strategy that an organization actually follows.
For Southern Bloomers Manufacturing Company, realized strategy has been shaped greatly by both its intended and emergent strategies, which center on underwear and gun-cleaning patches. An unrealized strategy refers to the abandoned parts of the intended strategy.
When aspiring author David McConnell was struggling to sell his books, he decided to offer complimentary perfume as a sales gimmick. The California Perfume Company was formed to market the perfumes; this firm evolved into the personal care products juggernaut known today as Avon.
For McConnell, his dream to be a successful writer was an unrealized strategy, but through Avon, a successful realized strategy was driven almost entirely by opportunistically capitalizing on change through emergent strategy. Did Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg set out to build a billion-dollar company with more than 2. Not hardly. This evolved first into an online social network called TheFacebook that was for Harvard students only.
When the network became surprisingly popular, it then morphed into Facebook, a website open to everyone. Facebook is so pervasive today that it has changed the way we speak, such as the word friend being used as a verb.
Donahoe, J. Memphis Business Journal. Funding Universe. Fedex Corporation History. Mintzberg, H. Of strategies, deliberate and emergent. Strategic Management Journal , 6, — Wells, K. Figure 1. Table 1. The perfumes McConnell gave out with his books were popular, inspiring the foundation of the California Perfume Company. The company changed its name to Avon in , and its direct marketing system remained popular for decades.
Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues at McGill University distinguish intended, deliberate, realized, and emergent strategies. This a strategy as conceived by the top management team. Rationality is limited and the intended strategy is the result of a process of negotiation, bargaining, and compromise, involving many individuals and groups within the organization. This is the actual strategy that is implemented.
Generally, what is implemented is only partly related to that which was intended.
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