TEAM 6 THIS HOUSE BELIVES THAT STRATEGY IS A “WHAT”

FIRST SPEAKER - CDT HUERNO

FIRST , STRATEGY IS A NOUN. MEANING IT IS A WORD USED TO

IDENTIFY OR DETERMINE PEOPLE, THINGS, PLACES, EVENTS ETC.
IN THE POLICE WORK, STRATEGY IS THE KNOWING THE “WHAT
ARE THE HOWS?” OR WHAT ARE THE PLANS TO BE OUTLINED TO
BE ABLE TO CARRY IT OUT. FOR EXAMPLE, WILL THE POLICE
OFFICERS IMMEDIATELY GO OUT ON A MISSION WITHOUT ANY
PLANS OR WEAPONS? PROBABLY NO, BECAUSE THERE WILL
POSSIBLY BE CASUALTIES AND PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED
WITHOUT A SYSTEMATIZED PLAN. SO FIRST, THEY MUST ASK THE
“WHAT ARE TO BE NEEDED?”, MAN POWER? BUDGET?
WEAPONS? WHAT WEAPONS? COMMUNICATING DEVICES?
NAVIGATING DEVICES? AN ORGANISED PLAN AND OTHERS.

THERE IS A BROAD SCOPE OF STRATEGY INSIDE THE ACADEMY.

AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS THE STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
FACILITIES.A PLAN IS POSTED AT THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
TO SHOW WHAT THE PROPOSED PROJECTS ARE, ONE OF WHICH
THEY HAVE STARTED WITH IS THE MESS HALL AND THE CADET
SQUARE. WHICH IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF ACTION TAKEN FOR THE
PROGRESS OF THE ACADEMY TO HAVE STRUCTURES AND
ESTABLISHMENTS UTILIZED BY THE CADETS TO LEARN AND PNPA
PERSONNEL TO DO THEIR JOB. ALSO, WE HAVE THIS INFO DRIVE
TO BA ABLE TO ENCOURAGE APPLICANTS TO APPLY FOR
PNPACAT. THIS IS FOR THE ACADEMY TO GET THE GREATER
CHANCE OF HAVING CADETS WHO WILL SOON BECOME A
COMPETITIVE AND CAPABLE GRADUATES. AS WE CAN SEE,
BEFORE THEY DO THE “HOW TO CARRY THESE OUT”
2ND SPEAKER - CDT ANTONIO

1. Strategy is that which top management does that is of great im-

portance to the organization. 

2. Strategy refers to basic directional decisions, that is, to purpos-
es and missions. 

3. Strategy consists of the important actions necessary to realize
these directions. 

4. Strategy answers the question: What should the organization
be doing? 

5. Strategy answers the question: What are the ends we seek and
how should we achieve them? 

The concept of strategy has been adopted from the military and
adapted for use in business. A review of what noted writers have
to say about business strategy suggests that the adoption was
easy because the adaptation was modest. In business, as in the
military, strategy bridges the gap between policy and tactics.
Together, strategy and tac- tics bridge the gap between ends and
means (Figure 1). This paper re- views various definitions of
strategy for the purpose of clarifying the concept and placing it in
context. My aim is to make the concepts of pol- icy, strategy,
tactics, ends and means more useful to those who concern
themselves with these matters.

3RD SPEAKER - CDT SEARES

Strategy is about making choices among realistic options to use

your resources to achieve a business goal. A good way to test
whether you have a strategy is whether you can point to the
options you have chosen between or among and explain why you
made the choice you did. For example, “We are choosing to
invest our scarce marketing resources for the next six months in
expanding our business with our top 10 clients rather than
investing those resources in opening up a new business line or
mounting a new social media campaign for our overall brand
because …”
If you find that you are having a lot of one-off discussions in
which someone is asking “should we take a particular action or
not,” you probably don’t have a strategy. Making a decision to do
something or not do it may be useful and even important for
other reasons , but it doesn’t add up to a solid business strategy.

4TH SPEAKER - CDT MAQUINTA

This house believes that Strategy is a what based on many points.

According to Michael Porter in a 1996 Harvard Business Review

article and in his 1986 book, Competitive Strategy, Porter argues
that competitive strategy is "about being different." He adds, "It
means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver
a unique mix of value." In short, Porter argues that strategy is
about competitive position, about differentiating yourself in the
eyes of the customer, about adding value through a mix of
activities different from those used by competitors. So the
question comes next, “what are these activities that delivers a
unique mix of value and others?”

WHAT IS STRATEGY?
What, then, is strategy? Is it a plan? Does it refer to how we will
obtain the ends we seek? Is it a position taken? Just as military
forces might take the high ground prior to engaging the enemy
might a business take the position of low-cost provider? Or does
strategy refer to perspective, to the view one takes of matters,
and to the purposes, directions, decisions and actions stemming
from this view? Lastly, does strategy refer to a pattern in our
decisions and actions? For example, does repeatedly copying a
competitor’s new product offerings signal a "me too" strategy?
Just what is strategy?
Strategy is all these—it is perspective, position, plan, and pattern.
Strategy is the bridge between policy or high-order goals on the
one hand and tactics or concrete actions on the other. Strategy
and tactics together straddle the gap between ends and means. In
short, strategy is a term that refers to a complex web of thoughts,
ideas, insights, experiences, goals, expertise, memories,
perceptions, and expectations that provides general guidance for
specific actions in pursuit of particular ends. Strategy is at once
the course we chart, the journey we imagine and, at the same
time, it is the course we steer, the trip we actually make. Even
when we are embarking on a voyage of discovery, with no
particular destination in mind, the voyage has a purpose, an
outcome, and an end to be kept in view