ABSTRACT
Why leave strategy until so late in the book? Normally the order of an IT book would include strategy right after the introduction. I have left strategy so late because of three things: firstly almost no-one will be reading this from a start-up situation. They have current realities that need to be dealt with. I remember a paper I read in the early 1980s that talked about what new managing directors and presidents do when they take over an organisation. I have tried to find the original reference but without success, so the following diagram (Figure 13.1) is based on my imperfect memory.
