But when I read on it got worse. Ms. MacKinnon thinks a strategist's job is to develop grandiose ideas. While I can understand a recruiter saying these silly things, I can hardly imagine The Standard accentuating these comments, unless the point was to discredit recruiters or specifically Ms. MacKinnon. Dr. Dana's column adequately describes the requirements for chief strategy officers, and there is not a hint of a requirement to generate grandiose ideas. My one concern with Dr. Dana's column was her advice on where to find candidates.
Strategy is in and of itself a complex discipline.
It is not something one acquires through banking experience and certainly not psychology. A CSO would be schooled in the teachings of Porter, Mintzberg, Ansoff, Hamel and Prahalad, Deming and Juran, Machiavelli and Sun-Tzu, and he or she would have taken the time to apply them and learn from their applications. As an owner of a small IT consulting firm, I find it amazing there is no regulation on how the big boys play the game. It is up 2 percent for the year 2000. Privacy Policy Stock data provided by Stockpoint and its data suppliers.