According to Gartner "A traditional strategy approach renders inefficient for organizations in a volatile business environment. Instead, executive leaders must use an adaptive strategy approach to respond to opportunities and threats."

According to Gartner, "A traditional strategy approach will not help organizations survive in uncertain conditions, because it becomes outdated quickly, is slow to respond to changes and depends on certainty.  Instead, executive leaders should adopt an adaptive strategy approach."

Read Gartner's report: 'Make Your Strategy More Adaptive for an Uncertain Environment'

• Determine the challenges related to their strategy, such as extensive creation time and slow response to changes.
• Select the appropriate adaptive strategy practices (such as starting strategy execution as early as possible and responding to changes in real time) by mapping the identified strategy challenges to the practices  that can help overcome the challenges.
• Establish the shortlisted adaptive strategy practices by selecting and implementing the relevant building blocks, such as real-time insights, distributed decision and minimum viable strategy.

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