Sutherland J. Towards A Strategic Management and Decision Technology...1989

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The focus in these pages is on what the modem management, decision and system sciences can do to assist higher management authorities. For it is they
who are generally charged with the responsiblity for ensuring the overall strategic 'readiness' of the organizations they serve... this a measure of the extent to which an organization is prepared to respond --in both a proper and timely way-- to whatever opportunities and perils the world may hold in store. Here then is the essence of the strategic management challenge. And here also is the core of the problem for these pages. For as things now stand, science has
a great deal less to offer strategic decision-makers than it does their subordinates at the middle-echelon or line levels of entetprise