Being a manager need one to be pragmatic rather than theorist.
However some basic concepts and application of business or strategy models help in providing a quick understanding and overview of big picture.
In the challenging time, a quick review of the company positioning, the market environments and reviewing the direction or rather the strategy of the company help to reinforce the importance of getting the basic right.
Here is a good link to the tools and models developed since 1930 to 2000. There are good details on 9 matrix and others tools such as SCP, 7S ,etc.
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Enduring_ideas_The_GE-McKinsey_nine-box_matrix_2198?pagenum=1#interactive_ninebox
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Hi Loh,
ReplyDeleteI like this McKinsey Quarterly website very much. Very insightful.
The "enduring ideas interactive" is great. Many are not so well known (at least to me). Wish to learn abt them..