H. Igor Ansoff

Thinkers1918 to 2002Strategic management theorist

Works

  • Strategies for Diversification, Harvard Business Review 35(5), 1957

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An applied mathematician who became a planning executive at Lockheed and later a professor, often called the father of strategic management. His 1957 article set out four growth paths from crossing existing and new products with existing and new markets, the grid now called the Ansoff matrix.

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