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Book Review: Fast Strategy by Yves Doz & Mikko Kosonen

Nov29

1        Fostering Strategic Agility

Sharpening strategic sensitivity, building collective commitment and enabling resource fluidity are major guides to strategic agility.  They give insight on all that need to be done to ensure that strategies are implemented to yield positive results.  Sensitivity of organizations to changes around them is not enough to make them have a competitive advantage of their product/services over others. Other factors of consideration are as well required in order to make their strategies agile and these are listed below.

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Experiences from the first SID student group

May20

In this story, a student from the very first SID Master’s group tells how everything went from the first idea of starting the studies to the point in which all the studies including the Master’s thesis are completed.

This is a very long story. So, sit comfortably before you start the journey through the SID studies.

And remember that the SID programme is constantly developed and many things will be done differently by the third group of students that begins in September 2012.

Have a inspiring journey – the story begins:

v  How everything started in Spring 2009

I coincidently found the announcement of the SID Master program and immediately started to be totally excited. Since I had started my carrier in a Finnish company within the service sector six months earlier (I’m German), it was important for me to find a possibility where I would be able to combine studying and working. Also I was searching for a study program in the service field with students from different working backgrounds to be able to network and exchange insights and ideas…..so I felt this would be a perfect match! Continue reading →