• Business unit strategies are given to functional area
leaders.
• Functional area leaders devise their own strategies
that fit.
• Managers in functional areas create their own
matching strategies.
• Individual employees are given objectives and
goals that align with the department strategy, business
strategy, and corporate strategy (in theory).
As anyone who has been through this process knows,
it takes a long time. What many people know but are
hesitant to admit is that the process is outdated. The
search for organizational agility, flexibility, and continuous
change hint that the process does not work,
but most efforts have tried to add tools to complement
the traditional strategy-making process rather than seek
to replace it altogether.