Building a strategy toolkit:lessons from business : executive briefings

In an increasingly competitive business environment, the ability to spot and seize new opportunities, to plot a path of successful growth for an organisation, and to use resources effectively and efficiently, becomes paramount. Managers have a number of management tools at their disposal to help meet the challenges that they face. By consulting with both business academics and alumni on their knowledge and use of strategy tools, this report contains a number of strategy tools that managers would benefit from being familiar and using in their work, particularly as their experience and seniority increases.