I hope we have now made a pretty solid case for the first two parts of the core strategy dynamics framework:

• Performance at any time of any organization depends on the levels of resources in place at that time
• Resources accumulate and deplete over time – mechanisms that therefore cause performance to change over time

We got to these principles by repeating relentlessly the question ‘What causes what?’ So the next logical question is… ‘What causes the rate at which resources are won ...