31 May 2015

• Disquiet: Lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness
• Disquiet in Daska. (Dawn) 
• Contentious: Causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy.  
• Corporate Sustainability, is however, a contentious issue. (CMR) 
• Novel: Of a new kind; different from anything known or seen before 
• The resulting innovations are often systematic and demand novel combinations of partner resources, capabilities and intellectual capital. (CMR) 
• Perusal: The act of perusing; scrutiny, survey 
• A perusal of newspapers, magazines and corporate news releases reveals that almost every type of business decision is classified as strategic. (Ram Shivakumar) 
• Nebulous: Hazy; vague; indistinct; or confused 
• Strategic decision making is difficult because the problems that firms confront are nebulous. (Ram Shivakumar)
• Reticent: Reluctant; or restrained 
• It built the first digital camera but was reticent to shift resources away from print photography. (Ram Shivakumar) 
• Proximate: Next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place,  occurrence, etc.
• For this to happen, management has to translate long-term vision into a set of proximate goals and plans. (Ram Shivakumar) 
• Amorphous: Lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless
• The " Political Incrementalism" model assumes that the firm's goals are amorphous. (Ram Shivakumar)