Mintzberg’s 5 Ps of Strategy
In order to help us understand the concept of strategy in its entirety, Henry Mintzberg published an article entitled “The Strategy Concept 1: Five Ps For Strategy” (California Management Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, Fall 1987), where he distinguished five visions of strategy: plan, ploy, pattern, position, and perspective, as illustrated in Figure 1. A…









