Usage and Suitability of Methods for Strategic Business Process Initiatives: A Multi Case Study Research

A key objective of strategy management is ensuring the implementation of strategies in the day-to-day operational business processes of enterprises. For this purpose, researchers and practitioners developed an enormous body of methods for strategy management. However, the tremendous variety of strategy management methods makes it difficult to choose the most appropriate methods for a given challenge. In an effort to provide guidance for practitioners and researchers, this paper provides an integrated dataset of the 50 most widespread strategy design and implementation methods and links these methods to a large body of 100 case studies. Based on this dataset, commonly utilized methods, common challenges, typical objectives, and specifics of industries are examined.