Strategy is really a safari, I am convinced of that after reading the excellent book of Henry Mintzberg et al. Strategy Safari: The Complete Guide Through the Wilds of Strategic Management

Mintzberg divides the strategy process as conceived by different schools:

The first three schools are prescriptive in nature – more concerned with how strategy should be formulated than with how they necessarily do form.

Is strategy created  or emergent? The answer is both and every strategy process has to combine various aspects of the different schools. Strategy Safari is a great book and it should be read several times to really understand its profound implications on the meaning of business strategy.

Digital convergence makes clear that the boundaries are not well defined and players from different domains are aiming at the same objectives. Vodafone revamps mobile internet service is a nice FT article in which is described the current scenario of Telco operators and Internet companies working on mobile Internet services and social networking.

And, Nokia is to acquire Dopplr, a social networking Internet service connecting people that travel around.