Strategic inflection point

A con­cept devel­oped by Andy Grove to describe the point in time when a company’s com­pet­i­tive envi­ron­ment under­goes a major change that requires a fun­da­men­tal change in busi­ness strat­egy. See Grove’s 1998 speech at the Acad­emy of Man­age­ment meet­ing in San Diego for more details.

I often abbre­vi­ate strate­gic inflec­tion point as SIP.when I’m grad­ing papers or writ­ing on a whiteboard.

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