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Record Nr.

UNINA9910645896603321

Autore

Datta Surja

Titolo

Strategic Optionality : Pathways Through Disruptive Uncertainty / / by Surja Datta, Tobias Kutzewski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-17354-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 pages)

Disciplina

658.4012

Soggetti

Strategic planning

Leadership

Technological innovations

Business

Management science

Business Strategy and Leadership

Innovation and Technology Management

Business and Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Business Landscape: Unpacking the idea of ‘domain specificity’ -- Chapter 3: The Conventional Wisdom in Strategy -- Chapter 4: Strategic Optionality: Introducing the Idea -- Chapter 5: Optionality and Innovation: Two sides of the Same Coin? -- Chapter 6: Competitive Success: Competing across FRL Domains -- Chapter 7: Optionality: The method -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a fresh approach to strategy by examining the idea of Optionality. Optionality is the right, but not the obligation, to take an action. Built on historic military tactics, static engineering principles, and equilibrium-seeking economics, conventional strategic-thinking suffers some weaknesses, principal of which is its inability to deal with conditions of high uncertainty. This book begins by dividing the business landscape into three distinct domains; (1) Fragile, (2) Robust, and (3) Long-shot (FRL), which alert us to the context-specificity of



strategy tools, before suggesting that theoretical lenses are required to understand and implement strategy in VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) domains. The authors explore the concept and methodology of Optionality in order to demonstrate how it can be used in conjunction with existing strategy tools in order to achieve competitive success. It will be of great interest to academics and students of strategy and innovation. Surja Datta is a Senior Lecturer, and Module Leader of Global Strategy and Innovation, a core module of Brookes Global MBA Programme at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published extensively, including books, chapters, and journal articles. His research interests include business history, innovation, and strategy. Surja is also the Associate Editor of International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development. Tobias Kutzewski is a chartered accountant to the ACCA and a PhD candidate at VU University, The Netherlands. He has extensive industry experience through his work as a technology consultant for Accenture and through various roles in audit, financial, and investment management at Deloitte, ING, and in venture capital. Currently, Tobias is conducting research to pursue his PhD in the field of entrepreneurship and is also engaged in lecturing courses on Organization Theory, Academic Skills, and International Strategy. He is a reserve-officer to the German Army on civil-military cooperation.