Find a company which reflects Morning Star and St Luke’s image of a Complex Adaptive System (CAS) and reflect in your blog what the implications are for you and your present organization (or any organization you are familiar with). Identify what you believe are appropriate actions to move your organization forward.

Watch this Martin-Reeves Video and discuss the implications of strategy on your organization.  Why strategy, why now, and how could this discussion positively impact your organization?



The title of the presentation reminds me of the song Just Dropped In (To See what Condition my Condition was in). 

I ended up answering the second blog assignment first.  In there, one will find some remarks as to the reasons my current employer has taken its present path on strategic development. 

Reeves (2014) reminds his audience that at the end of the day, one cannot lose sight of the end goal, or in other words the product or service, that the strategy is designed to serve. 

To add to this, I have found that recent strategy meetings sort of “leave the product behind” the discussion, meaning that customer readiness, time to market, and looking for production efficiencies are all good things to bear in mind when developing or producing a product.  But they have, by my observation, come to dominate the planning without the actual product capabilities being fully understood and successfully utilized. 

Between Reeves and Obolensky, the topic of a nimble or responsive strategic plan has been discussed.  As mentioned in another discussion board, for leaders to actually change strategies mid-stream or mid-plan require enormous trust and courage to execute.  

Leadership first must listen to their specialists to understand why such a move is necessary, then the direction and how far such execution is to proceed must be considered and measured against many factors – cost, time, perception, customer demand, shareholder expectation. 

The point being is that acting upon such conviction is not easy, in fact I would argue that it’s a generational phenomenon.  Meaning not until my generation and those younger than me are in leadership positions will we observe most companies executing this model more consistently. 

Reeves, M. (2014, December 22). Martin Reeves: Your strategy needs a strategy. Retrieved May 15, 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=YE_ETgaFVo8

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