5.1.2 Role Of Management Teams In Addressing Strategic Problems

All organisations, regardless of their size and nature of their business must have effective ways of addressing strategic problems. In large, modern organisations the executive function is likely to be performed by a team who are responsible for addressing strategic problems and setting corporate objectives. Disagreement is likely regarding existence of a problem, whether it needs to be addressed and, if so, how. Once a decision has been taken to address a problem, developing an appropriate strategy is one thing, implementing it can be something quite different. The organisation’s executives, the nominal decision-makers, may develop a strategy but, without their cooperation, others may ultimately determine in what form it will be implemented, if at all.