Pattern-Based Strategy

Gartner recently introduced a new buzzword "Pattern-Based Strategy (PBS)".  The concept is to seek patterns of change in the business, understand their impact on the organization, and act accordingly by taking corrective actions. Isn't it what business has been doing in the past?..understanding changes in economy, markets, industry, competitors and business conditions , detecting threat and opportunity patterns, developing and executing strategies to adapt with change. Steve Haeckel discussed similar concept of Sense-and-Respond (S&R) in his book Adaptive Enterprise to deal with the unpredictable change almost a decade ago.
On the IT side, with this new concept of PBS, it seems that more focus will develop on Complex Event Processing (CEP) along with a new breed of buzzword compliant vendor applications in the market promising predictability and coping with the unpredictable change using "Pattern Based Stratgey". Following is a brief video describing the PBS from Gartner,

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