So I'm reading this article titled "What is strategy?" for my, you guessed it, Competing through Strategy class. Let me share a choice morsel of wisdom with you.
"The most viable positions are those whose activity systems are incompatible because of tradeoffs. Strategic positioning sets the trade-off rules that define how individual activities will be configured and integrated. Seeing strategy in terms of activity systems only makes it clearer why organizational structure, systems, and processes need to be strategy-specific. Tailoring organization to strategy, in turn, makes complementarities more achievable and contributes to sustainability."
The guy that wrote this teaches at Harvard. I can't express to you how glad I am that I don't go to Harvard right now. I swear, if the guy had used the word "synergy" even once in that paragraph, I would have dropped out.
3 comments:
I'm not sure just what in the H i just read. I guess I'm just too dumb for good old Harvard. What is synergy anyway???? Please enlighten my feeble little mind.
Ugh - - it gives me a headache to try and pay attention to stuff like that!
"We will realign our organizational structure to streamline operations and capitalize on synergies among our workgroups." Managers really talk like this. Oh, help us all.
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