At the end of last year, I wrote about the need to put the old strategic planning model out to pasture and embrace a new method that focuses on developing strategic agility.
But as a dossier of evidence on nuclear black markets published this week by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies points out, Mr Khan's business model wasn't unique.
"One model is for these clean-tech companies to make strategic alliances with the Fortune 100 companies, " John Steuart of Claremont Creek Ventures told Greentech Media, a trade publication.
Traditional IT is being replaced by a new partnership model that demands IT departments transform themselves from service bureaus to strategic partners.
As a result, we must accelerate our strategic initiatives to position AMD to take advantage of these shifts and put in place a lower cost business model.