Chapter 3: Introduction

De Wit & Meyer (2010) discuss the strategy formation activities. What is, according to them, the correct order of these activities?
1. Identifying, diagnosing, realizing, and conceiving
2. Identifying, diagnosing, conceiving, and realizing
3. Identifying, conceiving, diagnosing, and realizing
4. Diagnosing, identifying, conceiving, and realizing.
De Wit & Meyer (2010) discuss the strategy formation activities. What are, according to the authors, the two sub-categories of diagnosing?
1. Examining and judging
2. Mission and agenda setting
3. Internal and external assessment
4. Observing and initiating.
De Wit & Meyer (2010) discuss the strategy formation activities. What are, according to the authors, the two sub-categories of identifying?
1. Examining and judging
2. Mission and agenda setting
3. Internal and external assessment
4. Observing and initiating.
De Wit & Meyer (2010) list some strategy formation roles. The authors do NOT list the following:
1. Top/middle/bottom roles
2. Corporate/business roles
3. Line/staff roles
4. Internal/external roles.
According to De Wit & Meyer (2010), what is the main paradox of the formation part of strategy?
1. Logic vs. creativeness
2. Realized vs. unrealized strategy
3. Planning vs. incrementalism
4. Deliberateness vs. emergence.
When it comes to strategic behavior there are, according to De Wit & Meyer (2010), some prominent advantages which strongly pressure organizations to engage in deliberate planning. Which of the following do the authors NOT mention?
1. Coordination
2. Optimization
3. Direction
4. Learning.
When it comes to strategic behavior there are, according to De Wit & Meyer (2010), some prominent advantages which strongly pressure organizations into letting strategy emerge. Which of the following do the authors NOT mention?
1. Entrepreneurship
2. Opportunism
3. Support
4. Adaptation
According to De Wit & Meyer (2010), how is incrementalism different to muddling through?
1. There is no difference between them
2. Incrementalism is always predicated on formal logic, whereas muddling through is not
3. Muddling through is incremental in nature, yet it is also reactive and ad hoc
4. Incrementalism is like muddling through, yet incrementalism is also reactive and ad hoc in nature.
According to De Wit and Meyer (2010), what is the major feature of the strategic planning perspective?
1. Strategy is an emergent process
2. Strategy is a learning process
3. Strategy is deliberately planned and executed
4. Strategy is a successful pattern of actions.
According to De Wit & Meyer (2010), how would you describe the formation process in the planning perspective?
1. Directed by organizational culture
2. Political and flexible
3. Structured and comprehensive
4. Unstructured and fragmented.
What would Mintzberg & Waters (1985, in De Wit & Meyer, 2010) call a strategy that came about despite, or in the absence of, intentions?
1. Intended strategy
2. Deliberated strategy
3. Emergent strategy
4. Realized strategy.
MTV was the first 24-hour music television network in the world. MTV Latino is the Spanish-language affiliate broadcasting two region-specific versions of MTV for the Latin American market, while MTV Europe produces three English-language variations for different parts of Europe. Until now, MTV has not initiated any radical strategic changes, but is actively searching for ways to gradually adapt to new competitive circumstances. According to De Wit & Meyer (2010), which perspective does MTV seem to be taking on the issue of strategy formation?
1. The planning perspective
2. The incrementalism perspective
3. The organizational dynamics perspective
4. The strategy emergence perspective.
According to De Wit & Meyer (2010), what can explain Samsung’s successful strategic planning approach?
1. Focusing on small steps, short-term orientation, opportunism
2. Cutting capital spending and production capacity
3. Committing to long-term investments, coordinating its businesses to create synergies.
4. Setting realistic goals, limiting the investments.