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Henry Mintzberg OC OQ FRSC is a Canadian academic and author on business and management. He is currently the Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University in Montreal , Quebec , Canada, where he has been teaching since 1968.
Strategic planning has been criticized for attempting to systematize strategic thinking and strategy formation, which Henry Mintzberg argues are inherently creative activities involving synthesis or "connecting the dots" which cannot be systematized. Mintzberg argues that strategic planning can help coordinate planning efforts and measure ...
Henry Mintzberg described five definitions of strategy in 1998: Strategy as plan – a directed course of action to achieve an intended set of goals; similar to the strategic planning concept; Strategy as pattern – a consistent pattern of past behavior, with a strategy realized over time rather than planned or intended.
Strategic planning's role is "to realise and to support strategies developed through the strategic thinking process and to integrate these back into the business". [14] Henry Mintzberg wrote in 1994 that strategic thinking is more about synthesis (i.e., "connecting the dots") than analysis (i.e., "finding the dots"). It is about "capturing what ...
Mintzberg argued that strategic thinking is the critical part of formulating strategy, more so than strategic planning exercises. [ 28 ] General Andre Beaufre wrote in 1963 that strategic thinking "is a mental process, at once abstract and rational, which must be capable of synthesizing both psychological and material data.
Henry Mintzberg (1978) made a distinction between deliberate strategy and emergent strategy. Emergent strategy originates not in the mind of the strategist, but in the interaction of the organization with its environment.
After 10 years at Grayscale, Michael Sonnenshein will be replaced by Peter Mintzberg, global head of strategy for asset and wealth management at Goldman Sachs, according to a statement issued ...
With Henry Mintzberg and Joseph Lampel, he wrote the book Strategy Safari. At Trent University, Ahlstrand teaches courses in Organization Theory (AD 251) and Strategic Management (AD 400) which are both part of the core program in management studies at Trent. [1]