Vaiaut Blog

Strategic orchestration ideas.

Eight articles that revisit the strategy research behind Vaiaut's methodology — Sull, Ruelas-Gossi, Levitt, Wernerfelt, Eisenhardt, and others — and connect it to how we turn priorities into projects that actually run.

Fundamentals Pricing strategy Innovation HBR classic Strategy philosophy Game theory Preparedness Simplicity
Fundamentals

What strategic orchestration is (and where the concept comes from)

The strategic orchestration we apply at Vaiaut rests on solid ground: it comes from research by Sull and Ruelas-Gossi more than a decade ago, and it's the framework behind how we work — coordinating a network instead of controlling every resource.

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Pricing strategy

The low-cost trap

Why competing on price alone impoverishes companies and countries — and what “corporate anorexia” is, and how it explains the pattern.

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Innovation

Innovating without inventing: the Big T paradigm

Innovating the business model, not necessarily the product. The CEMEX case and its Construrama network.

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HBR classic

What business are you really in?

Levitt's classic “Marketing Myopia”: no industry dies from saturation, it dies from defining itself too narrowly.

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Strategy philosophy

Controlling resources or coordinating a network: two schools of strategy

Two schools of strategy, side by side: owning and controlling resources, or coordinating a network without owning every piece.

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Game theory

Play the right game

Sometimes winning isn't beating the rival — it's changing the rules of the game so the confrontation stops being necessary.

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Preparedness

Active waiting

What separates companies that navigate uncertainty well doesn't happen during the crisis: it happens during the calm before it.

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Simplicity

Simple rules for a complex world

In fast, unpredictable markets, less detailed planning and more simple, concrete rules.

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