School of Fish Strategy Consulting Information

"Shoaling or School of Fish Strategy is a strategic design or configuring of an organization's value chain and assets as smaller, dis-aggregated and dispersed units through modularity, franchising, alliances, teams, and ownership-sharing so as to create competitive formations and reach markets far and wide, and achieve sustainable growth, learning economies, innovation, agility and speed while reducing cost and investment risk". How do you build a Smarter Business Enterprise that is agile, nimble and swifter in responding to continually evolving markets? What can you try to make your organization innovative and adaptive to the change? How will you grow your business without the shackles of bureaucracy? What will make your business highly responsive to dynamic markets? How will you reduce uncertainty and risk while seeking high growth? School of Fish Strategy is a new age paradigm born out of a synthesis of the state-of-art strategy and management practices by most successful organizations across industries. School-of-Fish formation enables multi-pronged competitive strategies permitting a firm to develop a unique or optimal strategy for each rival it encounters in the respective market or region. Shoaling or School of Fish Strategy enables your firm to achieve high-growth with lesser asset concentration and investment. School-of-Fish Strategy not only eliminates the opportunity cost of losing emerging markets but also reduces investment risk associated with large-scale integration. Shoaling among small firms as a constellation will enable raising finance in the stock market and getting listed as a portfolio of competencies. This strategy will decrease organizational inertia and offer the resource heterogeneity to sustain innovations. Companies from a range of industries pursuing school of fish strategy including WL Gore Associates, Kyocera ceramics, Nucor Steels, Google, Boston Beers, Nike, Apple, Sweet Water Breweries, Uber and Airbnb are showcased.