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Strategy (from Greek) is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the ‘art of the general’, which included several subsets of skills including tactics, siege craft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century in East Roman terminology.
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Barad, M. (2018). Definitions of Strategies. In: Strategies and Techniques for Quality and Flexibility. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68400-0_1
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