An Incoherent Strategy When a company’s value curve looks like a bowl of spaghetti — a zigzag with no rhyme or reason, where the offering can be desc… - Michael E. Porter

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An Incoherent Strategy When a company’s value curve looks like a bowl of spaghetti — a zigzag with no rhyme or reason, where the offering can be described as “low-high-low-low-high-low-high” — it signals that the company doesn’t have a coherent strategy. Its strategy is likely based on independent substrategies. These may individually make sense and keep the business running and everyone busy, but collectively they do little to distinguish the company from the best competitor or to provide a clear strategic vision. This is often a reflection of an organization with divisional or functional silos.

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About Michael E. Porter

Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) is an American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and he was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy. He is credited for creating Porter's five forces analysis, which is instrumental in business strategy development today.

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