Characteristics of the Defender when handing an adaptation cycle

In the last blog we categorized organizations based on their response to the various stages of the adaption cycle. In today's blog we take a closer look at the approach taken up by Defenders to handle the adaptation cycle challenges.

We began understanding the nature of a Defender organization by the way they perceive the various phases of the adaptation cycle. Given that they perceive the situation at hand very differently, it is pretty evident that the solutions they use to handle the challenges in each phase would also vary. Given the solution also varies across the actual intent of the organization at every phase would be pegged at a different level. 

The following diagram summarizes the characteristics of defenders (adapted from Miles and Snow - Organizations Strategy, Structure and Processes)

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The points in here are pretty encrypted but if we think about this from the angle of how a defender would look at the problems in the phase, it would become pretty evident how this spans out.