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I'm going to talk a little bit about strategy and its relationship with technology.
We tend to think of business strategy as being a rather abstract body of essentially economic thought, perhaps rather timeless.
I'm going to argue that, in fact, business strategy has always been premised on assumptions about technology, that those assumptions are changing, and, in fact, changing quite dramatically, and that therefore what that will drive us to is a different concept of what we mean by business strategy.
The idea of strategy in business owes its origins to two intellectual giants: Bruce Henderson, the founder of BCG, and Michael Porter, professor at the Harvard Business School.
And that was the first introduction of essentially a military concept of strategy into the business world.
They have different components, and each of those components might be driven by a different kind of strategy.
It was on those two ideas, Henderson's idea of increasing returns to scale and experience, and Porter's idea of the value chain, encompassing heterogenous elements, that the whole edifice of business strategy was subsequently erected.
So essentially what's happening here, and genomics is merely one example of this, is that technology is driving the natural scaling of the activity beyond the institutional boundaries within which we have been used to thinking about it, and in particular beyond the institutional boundaries in terms of which business strategy as a discipline is formulated.
Either way, what we are driven to is this horizontalization of the structure of industries, and that implies fundamental changes in how we think about strategy.
It means, for example, that we need to think about strategy as the curation of these kinds of horizontal structure, where things like business definition and even industry definition are actually the outcomes of strategy, not something that the strategy presupposes.
These kinds of transformations render the traditional premises of business strategy obsolete.
They require us, whether we are in the public sector or the private sector, to think very fundamentally differently about the structure of business, and, at last, it makes strategy interesting again.
Sperm, on the other hand, is abundant and cheap, so it makes more sense for males to have a more-sex-is-better strategy when it comes to siring members of future generations.
We've seen a coercion strategy in which sexual structures are used in a forceful way to basically make a female have sex.
We've also seen a titillation strategy where males are actually pleasing their female partners into choosing them as a sex partner.
Now unfortunately, in the animal kingdom, it's the coercion strategy that we see time and time again.
Snakes also employ the second strategy: built-in biochemical resistance.
CA: But it sounds like what you're saying is that when it comes to the Internet at large, any strategy is fair game if it improves America's safety.
They would, in fact, be part of a Sierra Leone where war and amputation were no longer a strategy for gaining power.
And we can actually use that strategy to now understand and to identify those genes causing autism in those individuals.
I've also learned to think strategy not failure when I'm sort of processing all these things that I don't want to do.
Cut back, small up; think strategy, not failure; get off your throne and find the bridgework to get your through the lean times.
They also follow in finance a particular strategy, because the weapon of choice in finance is accounting, and there is a recipe for accounting control fraud, and how it occurs.
And I call this strategy the "I'm tired of your foot on my neck" strategy.
So just 14 years after the Montgomery bus boycott, a group of LGBT folks took that same strategy.
I call this strategy the "We are visible and many in numbers" strategy.
And lastly, the "Loving" strategy.
Our strategy is not massive system change.
Our strategy is hundreds of small changes that take place in days or months, not years.
You cannot help but reckon with and recognize the command they have of the elemental questions of civic power — what objective, what strategy, what tactics, what is the terrain, who are your enemies, who are your allies?
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