Making Strategy

Reviews / Votes

`Colin Eden's reputation has, justifiably, been built on his internationally recognised work on cognitive mapping. Viewed in this light this book is best seen as an important, and sometimes fascinating handbook for the range of techniques that he and his team have developed in the area of corporate strategy. As such, it will undoubedtly be an invaluable reference book for facilitators undertaking group work in related fields' - Journal of Marketing Management



` Linking theory to details of practice is practically unprecedented in strategy texts. My guess is that once word gets out every OD department in every corporation, government department and large non-profit organization will want a copy, in part because of the link of theory and practice, but also because mapping is clearly a major wave of the future and they are the first to show people exactly how to do it' - John M Bryson, University of Minnesota





`This book is the first on the strategy making process which takes seriously (both theoretically and practically) how people with power in an organization make sense of their world - how cognitive maps and the business of changing them contributes to changing strategic futures' - Karl Weick, University of Michigan





`Rarely does a text on strategy formulation so closely link theory with practice. This text is readable-well organized, beautifully written and illustrated-it can serve as a useful guide as well as a long-term reference source' - Gerry DeSanctis, Duke University





`In the last few decades we have been led astray by airport books with sound-bite steps to strategic success, and elegant but equally unrealistic simplifications from theoreticians. In practice, strategy making is an on-going, messy, incomplete process - as all who do sustained work in organizations know. I highly recommend Making Strategy because it provides both practical and theoretical insights into this complex reality' - Anne Sigismund Huff, University of Colorado





`As a text for use by any lecturer in Strategic Management, it is most accessible with an original and helpful format.' - International Journal of Public-Private Partnerships