What is according to De Wit & Meyer (2010) the main issue of strategic thinking?
The issue of strategic creativeness
The issue of strategic reasoning
The issue of strategy realizing
The issue of strategic cogitation.
De Wit & Meyer (2010) distinguish several levels of the strategic thinking process. Which of the following levels do the authors NOT mention?
Personal level
Application level
Operating system level
Hardware level.
According to De Wit & Meyer (2010), which of the following elements of the strategic reasoning process is best described by the following question: “How should the problem be addressed”?
Identifying
Diagnosing
Conceiving
Realizing
De Wit & Meyer (2010) appoint three factors that cause the limitation to human cognitive abilities. Which of the following factors do the authors NOT mention?
Limited information sensing ability
Limited information processing capacity
Limited information receiving capacity
Limited information storage capacity.
According to De Wit & Meyer (2010), if the rational thinking perspective is correct, what is the best preparation for strategic thinking?
To be trained in the scientific tradition
To be trained like a chess grand master
To be trained not to rely on routines and habits
To be trained to explicitly state ones personal values and aspirations.
According to proponents of the generative reasoning perspective, why can strategic problems not be tackled rationally?
Generative thinking entraps the strategist in the current orthodoxy, allowing them to see the problem more clearly
Given the fact that people have bounded rationality, a better approach is to accept the limitation and adopt the generative approach
Because strategic problems are ‘wicked’, they can be easily and objectively defined
None of the above.
According to De Wit & Meyer (2010), what do most strategists agree on, whether of rational or generative inclination, with regard to reasoning about strategic problems?
It can be decomposed into two basic elements of defining and solving
The process cannot be decomposed into elements
It can be decomposed into three elements of diagnosing, conceiving, and realizing
It can be decomposed into four elements of identifying, diagnosing, conceiving, and realizing.
According to De Wit and Meyer (2010), what is the major limitation of the rational thinking perspective?
It directs strategists to implement statistical methods in the real life situations
It forces strategists to break out of the prevailing paradigm
It entraps strategists in consistent reasoning based on a prevailing paradigm
It forces strategists to follow formal and fixed rules of reasoning.
According to proponents of the generative thinking perspective, what is essential for strategists?
To have a revolutionary disposition
To follow procedural rationality
To perceive strategy making as science
To perceive the optimal course of actions.
With respect to De Wit & Meyer (2010), Google (Exhibit 2.3, p. 69) is a good example of: