Serious interest in strategic planning began with Chandler (1962) when he concluded that “structure followed strategy’. It was from Chandler’s writings that most organizations created large planning departments which examined and analysed data, recommended appropriate organizational structures and produced 5-year and 10-year plans. This innovation was followed by the SWOT analysis model from the Harvard Business School — the organization examined its strengths and weaknesses and then looked at the opportunities and threats in the external environment. This then allowed the organization to define its strategic orientation by defining the market niche which allowed the most advantageous match of strengths and opportunities while weaknesses and threats were minimized. Various tools for identifying the most appropriate strategy-structure link were promulgated in the 19705 and 19805, the most memorable being the BCG Matrix (Stars, Dogs, Cash Cows and Question Marks) and the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategies (PIMS). Then Porter (1985) suggested that there were four basic competitive positions that an organization could follow — cost leadership, differentiation, cost focus and differentiation focus. This wisdom, accumulated for over 20 years, produced an accepted, conventional paradigm of strategic planning: