Deck 15: Designing Effective Strategy Activities

Question 1

Ackermann and Eden (2011) describe strategy as a:

A) Social and political process
B) Social and organizational process
C) Social and collegiate process
D) Social and necessary process

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Political feasibility means that participants won't…

A) subvert or work against the implementation of an outcome
B) Contribute to new initiatives
C) Vote to decide of strategy stage gates
D) Check feasibility with all actors

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In iterative, experimental working environments, for what reason would a 'sponsor' provide participants with the required sense of psychological safety and support? (Kupp et al. 2019)

A) To accept a tolerance of failure and ambiguity
B) To develop an apportionment of blame
C) To assign credit for success
D) To ensure limits of resource exposure

Answer 3

A

Question 4

How is design thinking characterized?

A) Human-centred, creative, iterative
B) Process driven
C) Outcome focussed
D) Blue skies in character

Question 5

A useful way to understand design thinking is as a management philosophy or as a…

A) social technology
B) human imperative
C) strategic necessity
D) resource requirement

Question 6

Which of the following is not a design team problem?

A) Overwhelmed by too many good ideas
B) Trapped in their own experience and expertise
C) Confronted by too many disparate but similar ideas
D) Constrained by existing biases about what works and what doesn't work

Question 7

Which two of the following are factors that influence engagement?

A) Procedural rationality
B) Social acceptability
C) Role description
D) Contractual obligation

Question 8

In the knowledge loop model (Keates, S. and J. Clarkson 2003) which two of the following are steps in the loop?

A) The design team discusses the target outcomes
B) Design or refine blueprints for strategy activity
C) A framework is issues to the team
D) Quantitative data is used exclusively to furnish analysis

Question 9

Inclusion in strategizing can connect employees with a sense of organizational purpose