This book explores the subject of strategy. It aims to become the premier guide on how to develop drawer plans to support strategy and/or public policy. The three parts of the book are ‘Science of Strategy’, ‘Art of Strategy’, and the ‘Execution of Strategy’. Science of Strategy focuses on the fundamental of developing a strategic plan. The art of strategy explores the dynamic and complex nature of the environment and how an intricate understanding of the human brain could be useful in developing novel strategies. The last part places emphasis on the importance of the leadership and methodologies that could be useful to see through the successful implementation of the strategic plans. The book explores the importance of business intelligence, systems thinking, leverage or center of gravities, complex adaptive systems, wargaming, game theory, leadership, intuition, and the tipping point in developing and executing strategies.
This first edition only serves to lay out a broad framework on the some of the most important considerations and tools that could be used to develop winning strategies. It focuses on how to think rather than to provide a laundry list of strategies that could be implemented in any organization. The aim is for corporations to rigorously exploring their own unique capabilities and circumstances to develop novel strategies that would fit their own specific context.
Science and Art of Strategy
Strategic Leadership
“Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.”
Cart von Clausewitz
Leadership qualities are essentially the courage, determination, self-control, coup de’oeil and a comprehensive winning mindset that is not easily perturbed or defeated.
Thinking & Living System
Understanding structures, interconnections/relationships, and feedback loops will allow us to map a complex system to derive unique insights and discoveries that could be used to develop interventions, shifts, or policy decisions that will dramatically change the system in the most effective way.
As a complex adaptive system, it is an open and living system that adapts and evolves with the environment.
Data Science
With Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Science can be used to develop strategies using the following:
Visualizations
Multiple Regression
ARIMA
Neural Networks
Structural Equation Modelling
DEMATEL
Artificial Intelligence
Novel Strategies
Developing novels strategies involve thinking out of the box through the following techniques:
Reframing Thinking
Delphi Method
Blue Ocean
Design Thinking
Thinking Hats
CATWOE Thinking
MOONSHOT Thinking
Author
A former Military History & Strategic Studies Lecturer in SAFTI Military Institute. A Signals Officer by training, held appointments of a Directing Staff in Singapore Command and Staff College, a Branch Head in Joint Communications and Information Systems Department and the Commanding Officer of a Signal Battalion. He holds a Master of Science (Finance) from the National University of Ireland, a Master of Management Research from University of Western Australia and a Master of Science (Strategic Studies) from Nanyang Technological University. His special interests are in Strategic Management and Leadership, Command & Control, Operational Art, and Good Governance.
Worked for governments of Canada and Singapore in such diverse areas as leadership development, strategic planning, and project management and organizational development. Major achievements/experiences include annually developing the leadership and management skills of international midcareer officers, leading a midsize technology-based organization of 600 professionals, managing program/curriculum planning of a world-class Diploma in Defense Technology Program, and organizing think-tank forums in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Developed communications systems support for the contigent participating in the United Nation’s INTERFET Mission to East Timor. More recently, worked on the High Performing Organization and Blueprint 2020 initiatives at Employment and Social Development Canada, conducted business analysis of small businesses in Canada and U.S.A (New York, Chicago, Ohio, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa) and led humanitarian missions to Haiti and Chile.
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