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Pragmatic Methods and Approach
Business Architecture has paid particular attention to knitting the ideas and concepts that lead to competitive advantage into constructs, tools, and techniques which can be pragmatically applied by leaders and managers in all types of businesses and organizations. Kim Korn's expertise in strategy, systems thinking, business design, research, and business transformation has been married with his expertise in methodology development, process development, and teaching. The result is a comprehensive and pragmatic approach to the full cycle of strategy creation and deployment tailored to produce a competitive advantage.
High Integrity Methods and Framework
Just as in the field of quality, which is more mature and established than the field of strategic management, there are no easy answers or fail safe methods for either field. Yet there is a great deal of knowledge that can be brought to bear on strategy and business design, just as in the field of quality. The philosophical basis for effective strategic management is defined. Beyond that, the ideas brought together from extensive research were filtered through the mesh of Kim's experience and judgment to define the strategic management framework. This approach gives the methods, tools, constructs, and techniques legitimacy within the context of the philosophy.
Effective Application of Systems Theory
There are several ways this approach plays into the development of the strategic management framework with its strategic management process and business design construct.
- For example, the business organization is best represented as a complex social system. The methods and techniques for understanding and designing the business are thus systems theory and systems thinking based. Therefore a particular exercise to understand the existing business starts with its purpose in the context of its environment.
- Another example is learning. Systems learning, learning about complex things, is iterative. It iterates through the aspects of the thing to be understood. Thus the learning exercises specifically iterate through the aspects of the thing to be understood, whether it is the business itself, or its processes.
Integration Into the Business
This is not a stand alone attempt to improve the business by focusing on just one aspect of it. The strategic management framework fits with the comprehensive business model of an organization, including the full suite of management processes. Leaders will have a context from which do decide which initiatives and efforts will improve the whole of the business, vs. suboptimizing a portion of it.
Client Competency Development
BAi takes an educational approach to consulting, providing client personnel with the conceptual framework to help them in absorbing, synthesizing, and remembering what they learn and their insights gained. The outcome of engaging BAi then includes a management team with more insight into their own business, better strategic thinking skills, an appreciation for the diversity of thought that goes into creative innovation, systems thinking, all of which are further developed through use in the application of the strategic management processes.
