We would like to give special thanks to Chris Smith, University of Adelaide, Australia, who was co-author on the two previous editions of The Strategy Pathfinder. Thanks Chris.

We would also like to thank the following friends and colleagues for helping create this book.

• Rebecca Bednarek, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
• Terry Bowe, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Ivona Brasnjevic, ICT – Innovation in clinical trials GmbH, Vienna, Austria
• Adrian Buckley, Emeritus, Professor, Cranfield School of Management, UK
• Matthew Checkley, University of Gloucestershire, UK
• Shaun Coffey, Industrial Research Limited, UK
• Derek Condon, Birmingham University, UK
• Urs Daellenbach, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Richard Dobbs, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, UK
• Richard Dunford, University of Sydney, Australia
• Wael Kamel Eid, Islamic Bank of Britain, UK
• Andres Hatum, IAE Business School, Argentina.
• Ben Knight, Warwick Business School, UK
• Tatiana Mikhalkina, Lancaster University Management School, UK
• Kalimah A. Priforce, Brooklyn College, Georgetown University Programme, USA
• Tim Scholes, Senior Partner, IAMCO Ltd. Birmingham, UK
• Harminder Singh, Warwick Business School, UK
• Tony Smith and the staff and students at Baraka College, Kenya
• Uma Urs, Oxford Brookes University, UK
• Roberto Vassolo, IAE Business School, Argentina.
• Michael Wang, Warwick Business School, UK
• Allun Williams, Director of Sales and Marketing, Islamic Bank of Britain, UK
• David Wilson, Professor and Associate Dean, Open University, UK
• Mark Wood, MD, Paternoster PLC, UK

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