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	<title>Comments on: Here&#8217;s how decision management delivers continuous strategy</title>
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	<description>James Taylor on Everything Decision Management</description>
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		<title>By: Doug Dame</title>
		<link>http://jtonedm.com/2008/10/14/heres-how-decision-management-delivers-continuous-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-11412</link>
		<dc:creator>Doug Dame</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Continuous strategy&quot; as you describe it is not Strategy.

The Strategy is the capability and use of constant, or at least rapid, refinements and tweaks of business rules, based on empirical cost/benefit/effectiveness data.

The resulting operational adjustments are at best tactical, and arguably better described as autonomous. Depending on their scope. 

Deciding there is a need for a level, comfortable ride, and designing a suspension system with shock absorbers is a strategic decision. Once that&#039;s been engineered and implemented, would you argue that all the travel of the shock absorbers as they adjust to the bumps and dips in the road are &quot;strategic&quot;? Of course not. 

Same thing with a customer business decision system that self-evolves, as customer responses do, within the framework of an explicit and empirical ROI maximization model. (And/or other models.) 

Don&#039;t disagree with you on the significance of anything you say, but the term &quot;continuous strategy&quot; is a oxymoron. IMO, of course !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Continuous strategy&#8221; as you describe it is not Strategy.</p>
<p>The Strategy is the capability and use of constant, or at least rapid, refinements and tweaks of business rules, based on empirical cost/benefit/effectiveness data.</p>
<p>The resulting operational adjustments are at best tactical, and arguably better described as autonomous. Depending on their scope. </p>
<p>Deciding there is a need for a level, comfortable ride, and designing a suspension system with shock absorbers is a strategic decision. Once that&#8217;s been engineered and implemented, would you argue that all the travel of the shock absorbers as they adjust to the bumps and dips in the road are &#8220;strategic&#8221;? Of course not. </p>
<p>Same thing with a customer business decision system that self-evolves, as customer responses do, within the framework of an explicit and empirical ROI maximization model. (And/or other models.) </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t disagree with you on the significance of anything you say, but the term &#8220;continuous strategy&#8221; is a oxymoron. IMO, of course !</p>
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		<title>By: Vaughan Merlyn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vaughan Merlyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for making the linkage to decision management - this is an important connection and must be an integral part of the next generation of strategy formulation/execution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for making the linkage to decision management &#8211; this is an important connection and must be an integral part of the next generation of strategy formulation/execution.</p>
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