OODA and “Strategy Making Process” for Business
Handbook of Research on Strategy Process
Dr. Chet Richards has contributed to an important new theoretical book on strategic applications to business enterprises. For those newer readers, Chet is an authoritative source on strategy, particularly the theories of Colonel John Boyd and is the former proprietor of the late, great, strategy website DNI. I have learned a great deal over the years from Colonel Richards and heartily recommend his Certain to Win to anyone looking for the strategic edge.
For readers with a corporate credit card or departmental budget ( the book is *really* expensive) and a deep, academic or professional interest in strategic theory and thinking, this book is for you. I may require Inter-Library Loan. 🙂
As Chet describes it:
Deep stuff – very academic – but covers the waterfront of the research (i.e., as distinguished from the speculation) on the process of strategy. As the co-editors describe it:
While strategy content focuses on the subject of the decision, strategy process focuses on actual decision making and its associated actions. Strategy process research examines the process underpinning strategy formulation and implementation. … Although aimed primarily at the academic community, many of the contributions speak to a wider audience.
Expensive, but if you’re into this sort of thing, probably indispensable.
March 25th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
At the price, I’ll settle for comments from your esteemed readership. $100 for Jim Storr (did you review, Zen) is one thing, but the price seems over-the-top.