Research Paper on:
Business Success and Strategy

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get there. This is a saying that means if there are no plans to grow develop and progress then there is little against which any development can be measured. This  concerns the role of goal., yet to there need to be plans in the way that these goals are reached. Therefore, if we are to consider strategy the first the  first factor need to be to define what we mean by strategy. Strategic management is often perceived as a science, requiring careful  consideration of all the facts before a decision is made. The meaning of strategy in business terms is defined by the English dictionary as "A plan of action or policy  in business or politics"(Oxford Concise English Dictionary 1991:1205). Although accurate this can be taken further "Strategic management is synthesis of analysis and planning for value creation and delivery" (Thompson, 1998).  Whatever the definition used logical scientific methods do not always produce the expected results, and it is here that the emergent strategy has been recognised and defined as a viable  reaction to a change in circumstances and this cannot be deemed to be satisfy in the traditional sense, as it is not planned in advance and as such does not  meet with the normal definitions of strategy. Therefore we can look at two different models, one of which embracing and includes the idea of traditional strategic management and the use  of traditional strategy, such as forward planning, projections and the stepped actions meeting the targets that are set. The other needs to be a model where there are developments that  do not meet with the normal strategic criteria, where there is a development that is not planned for. If the question to be