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Emergent strategy

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, emergent strategy means: A pattern of strategic action that develops through experience without having been fully intended in advance.

In Turkish: oluşan strateji

How it is used

Use when repeated local choices gradually become the organisation's direction; a single accident is not enough.

Example sentences

  1. Repair services became an emergent strategy after several branches independently built profitable workshops.

    A repeated pattern becomes strategic before a central plan formally adopts it.

  2. The annual review recognised an emergent strategy in the team's growing focus on small clients.

    The direction is identified from actual choices rather than an original declaration.

Common collocations

  • an emergent strategy
  • emergent and deliberate strategy
  • strategyA long-term plan that sets out where an organisation wants to go and the main choices it will make to get there, such as which markets to enter and what to stop doing.
  • executionThe process of putting a plan or strategy into action and delivering results, as opposed to only designing or discussing it.

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