McKinseys 7 S
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information on Mckinsey's 7-SIt's all very well devising a strategy, but you have to be able to implement it if it's to do any good. The Seven S Framework first appeared in "The Art Of Japanese Management" by Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos in 1981. They had been looking at how Japanese industry had been so successful, at around the same time that Tom Peters and Robert Waterman were exploring what made a company excellent. The Seven S model was born at a meeting of the four authors in 1978. Organisations need both planned and opportunistic tendencies, but the key to success lies in the in a dynamic synthesis thereof. Opportunistic responses often shape the content of a new thrust whilst strategic thinking identifies the underlying context. Strategic planning is about asking questions, more than attempting to answer them. Strategy formulation entails a search for a different frame of reference. It is the quest for a new business paradigm. There are two types of paradigms that apply to management, namely the business and the organisational or managerial paradigms...