Using Whittington’s (2000) Perspectives On Strateg

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Using Whittington’s (2000) perspectives on strategy and Mintzberg and Lampel’s (1999) schools of strategy, describe the processes and practice of strategy in your organisation, or an organisation with which you are familiar. Critically assess whether you believe the most appropriate approach to strategy formation and practice is being used. There are many definitions of strategy put forward by various experts who have written on the subject of strategic management throughout the years. In this essay I will be using Whittington’s (2000) perspectives on strategy and Mintzberg and Lampel’s (1999) schools of strategy to describe the processes and practice of Strategy in the Courts Service of Ireland, a public service organisation in which I am employed. Whittington (2000) sees strategy as being both Contestable, there is no one best way and depending on opinion strategy can be seen differently. If you are formulating strategy you must keep in mind the goals of all stakeholders or else you will meet with resistance. Strategy is also Imperfectable in that you never really know if the strategy adopted was the best strategy possible and that there is now way of knowing if things could have been done better or worse. Whittington (2000) approaches strategy from four generic points of view: The first approach is the classical approach. It is based on the methods of planning and in this approach strategy is seen as a rational process, with deliberate calculations and analysis and is used to maximise long term advantage. The classical approach relies on good planning in the mastering of the internal and external business environments. Success and failure in the long-run, is determined by the objective decision making and the rational analysis employed in the classical approach (Armstrong, 1991). The second approach is the evolutionary approach. Evolutionists view the

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