The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking

The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking

threats, or creating value by capitalizing on opportunities, or some combination of those two outcomes. As shown in Figure 1, below, strategic thinking is the pro cess through which you recognize, prioritize and mobilize (RPM) to deal with challenges and opportunities. This is a cyclic al process in which recognition of problems leads to prioritizing the most important ones and then mobilizing your organization to solve those problems. Moving rapidly through RPM cycles has great value because it will help ​you – ​and your ​team – ​move faster than competitors. As illustrated in the Introduction, Gene Woods has out standing RPM capabilities. When he was named CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) in 2016, he foresaw a

Figure 1: The ​recognize–​prioritize–​mobilize cycle

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