The Business Case Development Toolkit is more than just a powerpoint presentation on completing the business case; it provides a road map for evaluating the business case and presenting to management for capital investment decisions. We used the Business Case Development Toolkit to evaluate a major project and ensure the completeness of our analysis. Using the toolkit we were able to evaluate projects and make informaed decisions regarding our limited capital.

While academics and consultants keep focusing on these narrow perspectives, business managers will be better served if they strive to see the wider picture. Some of strategic management's greatest failings, in fact, occurred when one of these concepts was taken too seriously.

These 10 Schools of Thought are as follows:

1. The Design School. This school sees strategy formation as a process of conception.
2. The Planning School. This school sees strategy formation as a formal process.
3. The Positioning School. This school sees strategy formation as an analytical process.
4. The Entrepreneurial School. This school sees strategy formation as a visionary process.
5. The Cognitive School. This school sees strategy formation as a mental process.
6. The Learning School. This school sees strategy formation as an emergent process.
7. The Power School. This school sees strategy formation as a process of negotiation.
8. The Cultural School. This school sees strategy formation as a collective process.
9. The Environmental School. This school sees strategy formation as a reactive process.
10. The Configuration School. This school sees strategy formation as a process of transformation.