715-ACST 1

opportunity space

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715-ACST 2

constraints

• physical• economic• social• ethical• legal• ....

metrics of the lived world

inhabit with the imagination = entrepreneurship

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715-ACST 319-May-2015

715-ACST 419-May-2015

715-ACST 5

strategists’ ethics

funding problems

productionlimitations

labor p

ress

ure

legal limits

distribution

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715-ACST 6

strategists’ ethics

funding problems

productionlimitations

labor p

ress

ure

legal limits

distribution

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715-ACST 7

strategy is ...

• no universal answer

• imaginative engagement with chosen uncertainties

• collaborative imaginative act

• a firm-specific language

• value-creating action

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715-ACST 8

role of planning

• language - logos, ethos, pathos

• Von Clausewitz On War

• big data

• AI & the ‘science of mind’

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715-ACST 919-May-2015

715-ACST 10

entrepreneurial imagination

+ persuasion

collaborative value-creation

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715-ACST 11

case work

• use imagination to inhabit a situation

• feel for the constraints

• ... and paths forward

• feel for possible to constraint shift to expand the opportunity-space

• find the persuasive story others need to hear if they are to act as you wish

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715-ACST 12

stasis (question) theory

• viable business model ?

• measure - before trying it out ?

• who/what threatens our BM ?

• what can we/be change ?

• robust / resilient ?

• how long ?

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715-ACST 13

loose ends

• private - public

• implementation

• SCons

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715-ACST 14

Rembrandt Selfie -1628

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