a vital way to remain competitive or a way of forcing strategic change when an organisation has strayed away from its environment and is on the path to failure. Strategy has a military history, dating back to at least to 600 B.C. with ‘The Art of War by Sun Tzu’, and by its very nature has been mainly concerned with competitiveness. How to win
Foundation of Strategic Thinking Midterm: Analysis of Liddell Hart’s Excerpt During World War II, British General Liddell Hart emerged as a strategist and he was famous for his innovative thoughts. Though Hart’s ideas were not favored by Britain in his time, he is highly regarded, by later generations, as one of the most respected strategists and historians in the field of strategic studies. This excerpt is taken from chapter XIX of Hart’s book titled Strategy. In this excerpt, Hart emphasizes his
eyes to the possibility of insecure chemical weapons and stockpiles concerns (Shea, Report, 2013). This statement shows the reality of how possible chemical warfare is still today in this day and time. During World War 1, when the Germans released chlorine gas and then later in the same war used mustard gas against their allies, was the first documented use of poison gases (Encyclopedia, 2013, pg1). These uses of toxic substances go back several thousand years with hunting methods such as; poisoned
In today’s economy every organization wants to make sure it makes as much profits as it can. Since every organization is running after the same thing, it means the competition increases. As the competition increases, in a given industry there can be only one holding the title as the market leader. Therefore, it becomes important that each and every organization gets a certain strategy to either out do the competition or to stay at the top. Safaricom has been the leader in its telecommunication industry