"devise the strategy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to come up with or create a plan or approach. You can use it in any situation where you need to plan or strategize, such as in business, politics, or even a game. Example: The company's CEO tasked the marketing team to devise a strategy to increase sales in the upcoming quarter.
"And it's extraordinary how we are fortunate to have had this individual in place at this time to begin from square one to devise the strategy with the president and the professional military to wage war on terrorism".
The cover article in The Times Magazine this weekend, about the recent struggles of the Republican Party, misspells the surname of the Democratic congressman who helped devise the strategy for the Democratic gains in the 2006 Congressional elections.
Having been a UN commander in Bosnia and deputy supreme allied commander in Nato, Smith told students in the annual King's College War Studies Lecture earlier this week that Nato was never designed to devise the strategy and execute it for such a complex mission as the war in Afghanistan.
This analysis will help the managers to devise the strategy for rolling out the Lean/JIT in their organization.
This analysis will help the managers to devise the strategy for rolling out the Lean in their organization.
This analysis will help the managers and policy makers to devise the strategy to apply and develop IT such as hardware, software and communication technologies in production process and provide new technologies for labor force to improve the efficiency and productivity.
Mr. Bratton has been credited with helping devise the strategies that many view as having brought the crime rate down under Mr. Giuliani's watch.
The administration officials who devised the strategy said they believed that Mr. Milosevic, regardless of the vote tallies, would manipulate the results and declare victory.
How did ASML win?"We were too small to compete with Nikon and Canon directly," explains Willem Maris, who devised the strategy as the boss of ASML from 1990 to 2000.
"What you're seeing, especially in professional sports, is the inherent value inside a team are its media rights," said Chris Bevilacqua, a media consultant who devised the strategy for the Pacific-12 conference's new suite of networks.
