1. Take an organisation with which you are familiar and consider to what extent it plans ahead. How does it undertake this task? Is it reasonably effective or is the whole process largely a waste of time? To what extent does any planning process rely on ‘people' issues and negotiation? What model from this chapter does the process most closely follow, if any?
2. Is it possible for the prescriptive strategy process to be creative?
3. Some have argued that the survival-based strategic route is over-pessimistic in its approach. Do you agree?