Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Welcome; Intended Audience; Purpose of the Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; O'Reilly Safari; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Introduction; This Is Water; Discovering Strategy; Driving Strategy with Patterns; Part I. Context: Architecture and Strategy; The Origins of Patterns; Applying the Patterns; Chapter 1. Architect and Strategist; Business Strategies; Marketing at Michelin; Acquisition and Integration at Oracle; Differentiation at Xerox and Canon; The Architect's Role; Vitruvius and the Principles of Architecture.
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Objects and RelationsStrategic Analysis as Machine Learning; Summary; Chapter 3. World Context; PESTEL; Creating the PESTEL; Researching for PESTEL; Applying the PESTEL; Scenario Planning; Steps for Scenario Planning; Futures Funnel; Backcasting; Summary; Chapter 4. Industry Context; SWOT; Porter's Five Forces; Threat of New Entrants; Ease of Substitution; Bargaining Power of Customers; Bargaining Power of Suppliers; Industry Rivalry; Applying the Five Forces; Ansoff Growth Matrix; Summary; Chapter 5. Corporate Context; Stakeholder Alignment; Determining Stakeholders; Determining Drivers.
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Project Heat MapSummary; Part III. Communicating the Strategy; Chapter 7. Approach Patterns; 30-Second Answer; Rented Brain; Ars Rhetorica; Logical Fallacies; Fait Accompli; Facing a Cold Audience; The Meeting Before; Dramatic Structure; Establish the Status Quo; Create an Inciting Incident; The Plan; Shock and Awe; Deconstruction; Three Levels of Problems; Three Causes of Problems; Semiotics: Signs and Symbols; Scopes Without Center; The World as System: Synthetic Decomposition; Scalable Business Machines; Business as System; The Origin Theory; Aspects of the Scalable Business Machine.
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Stakeholder ListStakeholder Matrix; RACI; Alignment Meetings; Life Cycle Stage; Value Chain; Maximizing Efficiency; Supporting Functions; Applying the Value Chain; Growth-Share Matrix; Core/Innovation Wave; Investment Map; Summary; Chapter 6. Department Context; Principles, Practices, Tools; Principles; Example: NASA Strategy; Current and Future Model; The Principles, Practices, Tools Sankey Diagram; Business Process Mapping; The Law of the Product of Probabilities; Application Portfolio Management; Planning with Asset Classes; Capability Mapping; Business and Technology Attributes.
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Three Concerns of the ArchitectThe Strategist's Role; The Triumvirate: Strategy, Culture, and Execution; Summary; Part II. Creating the Strategy; A Logical Architecture of the Creation Patterns; Chapter 2. Analysis; MECE; Applying MECE Lists; Logic Tree; Diagnostic Logic Tree; Solution Logic Tree; Creating the Tree; Problems Versus Opportunities; Hypothesis; The Five Questions; 1. The Conjunct of Propositions Describing the Problem; 2. The Semantics Characterizing These Propositions; 3. Possible Outcomes; 4. Probability of Each Outcome; 5. Ease and Impact Scoring; Signal and Noise; Context.