Strategy (disambiguation)
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A strategy
is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal.
Strategy may also refer to:
In biology:
In business:
In geopolitics and military planning:
In gaming:
Other:
Strategy
Strategy, a word of military origin, refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. In military usage strategy is distinct from tactics, which are concerned with the conduct of an engagement, while strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked...
is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal.
Strategy may also refer to:
In biology:
- Evolutionarily stable strategyEvolutionarily stable strategyIn game theory and behavioural ecology, an evolutionarily stable strategy , which is sometimes also called an evolutionary stable strategy, is a strategy which, if adopted by a population of players, cannot be invaded by any alternative strategy that is initially rare. An ESS is an equilibrium...
In business:
- Corporate Strategy, a series of top-level management decisions which help navigate the direction of the corporation in terms of products, markets, promotion and price levels
- Business strategy, the art and science of enabling an organization to achieve its objective
- Marketing strategyMarketing strategyMarketing strategy is a process that can allow an organization to concentrate its limited resources on the greatest opportunities to increase sales and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.-Developing a marketing strategy:...
, a process that allows an organization to increase sales and achieve a competitive advantage - Technology strategyTechnology strategyA Technology strategy is a particular generation of an organization's overall objective, principles and tactics relating to the technologies that the organization uses. Such strategies primarily focus on the technologies themselves and in some cases the people who directly manage those technologies...
, a document that explains how information technology should be used as part of a business strategy - Digital strategyDigital strategyIn the fields of strategic management, marketing strategy and operational strategy, digital strategy is the process of specifying an organization's vision, goals, opportunities and initiatives in order to maximize the business benefits digital investments and efforts provide to the organization...
, the process of specifying an organization's processes to deploy online assets
- Marketing strategy
- Trading strategyTrading strategyIn finance, a trading strategy is a predefined set of rules for making trading decisions.Traders, investment firms and fund managers use a trading strategy to help make wiser investment decisions and help eliminate the emotional aspect of trading. A trading strategy is governed by a set of rules...
, a predefined set of rules to apply in finance
In geopolitics and military planning:
- GeostrategyGeostrategyGeostrategy, a subfield of geopolitics, is a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning...
, a foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors pertaining to political and military planning - Grand strategyGrand strategyGrand strategy comprises the "purposeful employment of all instruments of power available to a security community". Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart says about grand strategy:...
, military strategy at the level of an entire nation state or empire's resources - Military strategyMilitary strategyMilitary strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. Derived from the Greek strategos, strategy when it appeared in use during the 18th century, was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the general", 'the art of arrangement' of troops...
, planning the conduct of warfare - Strategy, a classic text on military strategy by B. H. Liddell Hart
In gaming:
- Strategy gameStrategy gameA strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome...
, a game in which the players' decision-making skills determine the outcome, rather than chance- Strategy video gameStrategy video gameStrategy video games is a video game genre that emphasizes skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory. They emphasize strategic, tactical, and sometimes logistical challenges. Many games also offer economic challenges and exploration...
, a video game in which the players' long-term planning skills determine the outcome, rather than reflexes
- Strategy video game
- Strategy (game theory)Strategy (game theory)In game theory, a player's strategy in a game is a complete plan of action for whatever situation might arise; this fully determines the player's behaviour...
, a complete plan of action in a game or a business situation- Mixed strategy, a game theory strategy which chooses randomly between possible moves
- Strategy (game)Strategy (game)Strategy is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It belongs to the same family as Sir Tommy and Calculation, and this can be regarded as the more difficult cousin of Sir Tommy....
, a solitaire card game - Chess strategy, the evaluation of positions and setting up goals and tactics in chess
Other:
- Strategy (album)Strategy (album)Originally intended to be released by Elite Records and titled Strategy, The Early Tapes is the second album released, but first to be recorded, by the British group Level 42. The band subsequently signed to Polydor, who bought the masters from Elite and issued it in March 1982...
by Level 42 - Strategy patternStrategy patternIn computer programming, the strategy pattern is a particular software design pattern, whereby algorithms can be selected at runtime. Formally speaking, the strategy pattern defines a family of algorithms, encapsulates each one, and makes them interchangeable...
, a computer science design patternDesign pattern (computer science)In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. A design pattern is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that... - Strategy (TV series)Strategy (TV series)Strategy is a Canadian game show television series which aired on CBC Television in 1969.-Premise:Contestants consisted of teams of couples who were situated on a large circular maze covering the studio floor. Their goal was to move towards the centre of the maze by correctly answering questions...
, a 1969 Canadian television game show