Paul Hunter (DBA) is Founder and CEO of the Strategic Management Institute and past partner at PwC. He works on a global stage consulting and teaching. He is also the author of The Seven Inconvenient Truths of Business Strategy (2014) and a chapter contributor in Corporate Universities: Drivers of the Learning Organization (Rademakers, 2014).

Introduction

Corporate Strategy (Remastered)

Concept of Corporate Strategy (Remastered)

How to use this book

Ansoff's Corporate Planning legacy

1 Concept of Corporate Strategy (Remastered)

Introduction: evolution of Third Wave Strategy

Where to strategy and strategy practice?

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: the emergence of Third Wave Strategy

Dimensions of Third Wave Strategy: bringing strategy back from the brink

Third Wave Strategy as practice: things that Third Wave Strategy practitioners do

Third Wave Strategy in a nutshell

Summing up

2 Articulating Long Term Strategy

Introduction: contextualising the evolution of Long Term Strategy practice

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: Long Term, Third Wave Strategy and the Strategic Architecture

Organisational Purpose, Mission, Vision: the foundation of Long Term Strategy

Strategic environment for Long Term, Third Wave Strategy: influence of external and internal forces

Outside In, external influences

Inside Out, internal influences

Operation and management of a Strategic Architecture

The Strategic Architecture as a tool of Deliberate Disruption

3 Reinventing Strategic Planning

Introduction: the notion of Strategy Evaluation

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: Strategy Evaluation within the context of Third Wave Strategy

Program of Strategy Evaluation: Strategy Evaluation, Shaping and Reviewing

Preparing a Strategy Narrative

Establishing a Strategy Blueprint

Assessing the human element of Strategy Evaluation

Organisational learning and Third Wave Strategy

4 Implementing Third Wave Strategy

Introduction: the challenge of implementing Short Term Strategy

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: content and context of Strategy Implementation activities

A Program of Continual Strategy Renewal: the enabler of long term transformational change in the short term

Adaptive and inventive strategic change: a Cycle of Organisational Transformation and Renewal

SMI's Cycle of Organisational Transformation and Renewal

Developing a definitive Pathway to Regeneration

5 Strategic Alignment

Introduction: the mystique of Strategic Alignment

Corporate Strategy (Remastered) in practice: identifying the touch points of Strategic Alignment

Strategic Alignment touch points in the context of Third Wave Strategy

Resolving conflict of Alignment with the external environment

6 Future strategy practice

Introduction: building momentum

Sprouting a clean, fresh, new opportunity: Green Shoot Strategy and accelerated Deliberate Disruption

What might be: a Green Shoot Disruption and the corporation of the future

Governance reform and the corporation of the future

Open strategy revisited: how to be what you can't see

Corporate governance of the future: managing strategic risk

Will there be a fourth wave of strategy?

Final word: what are you waiting for