Executive Summary Strategic management entails the identification, execution, control, and assessment of the course of action to take in order to ensure that a firm attains its set goals and objectives. Strategic management can be both a science and an art. Available literature and studies indicates that strategic management is both an art and a science. The formulation and testing of hypotheses call for the science aspect of strategic management. On the other hand, the art aspect of strategic management comes about at the implementation stage when making of plans is vital. In light of this, the current paper endeavors to examine if indeed strategic management is a science, or not. Introduction According to Wheelen and Hunger (2008), strategic management can be defined as the collection of managerial actions and decisions upon which a firm or corporation depends on for its long-term performance. Hoffmann (2007) argues that strategic management aspires to align the external environment of a business with its activities. Strategic management takes into account comprehensive planning activities for the different variables of a firm that may assist in accomplishing the set objectives and goals. The paper seeks to dispel the statement that management is a science. The paper argues that due to the complexities involved in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of business strategies and since employees have to be managed tactfully, therefore, strategic management is both an art and a science. This is the position that the current paper seeks to take. Literature Review Strategic management is the science and art of formulating, executing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions to assist firms attain their long-term goals (Hanson and Dowling 28). It entails identifying the vision and mission of a firm, developing plans and policies that will eventually turn them into programs and projects, and the allocation of vital resources for the execution of such plans and policies. All of these activities must function together if at all the goals and objectives of a firm are to be achieved. Taking into account the aforementioned concepts about strategic management, there is the need to assess whether strategic management is a science, or an art. The art aspect of strategic management comes about at the implementation stage when making of plans is vital. Here, managers enjoy the flexibility of execution taking into account the fact that at this stage, it may be necessary to modify some of the strategies to facilitate proper execution. Furthermore, in order to implement a plan, the style and character traits of a manager are essential since different managers have different character and unique styles of implementing plans. As a result, the performance of different managers differs because of their unique traits and character. Often times, managers are called upon to improve the activities of executing strategies; however, the pace at which such activities can be implemented is riddled with a lot of problems. Under certain circumstances, they are bound to forget the primary objectives as they head towards the implementation of strategies. Consequently, a firm may lose the initial momentum prior to the realizations of the anticipate