It's not overtly complicated - take 20 wickets and score more runs than them.
The trouble is, it's easier said than done.
Some batsmen have clear weaknesses against certain bowling, the odd batsman (eg Martyn) have weaknesses in certain shots, so feed them.
One thing, Fleming's strategies in 2001\02 as far as getting batsmen out cheaply were somewhat overrated. No batsman fell flat on their faces, even Martyn, and Gilchrist, Hayden, Langer and Ponting all improved their records that series.
With the batting it's a bit easier but so many batting-line-ups put themselves under so much pressure with bad psychology (no, the bowlers DON'T create the pressure) that you still see stacks of failures.
Basically if there's seam-movement in the pitch you haven't got a prayer because McGrath, Gillespie and Kasprowicz will destroy you almost every time, but if there's not you've got as good a chance as you could wish for - all you need is patience.
Certainly setting-out to score at 4-an-over against a full-strength Australian attack will, almost without fail, get you into deep trouble.
Equally if you bowl with good seamers on a seaming wicket or good spinners on a turning wicket, you've got a very good chance of bowling them out cheaply.
If you've got a flat pitch and a load of fingerspinners and one-dimensional seamers, look-out, basically. They'll score 5 or 600 more often than not.
But there's no big secret, it's just like anyone else - to beat them you have to play better cricket than them. Your best chance is to have a talented, settled side. Though having said that some of the best performances recently have come through glorified spontaneity (promoting Laxman to three, recalling Harbhajan, turning the whole Sri Lankan Board over in 1999\2000).
So often recently problems have come through injury and dropped catches. That's the biggest key of all IMO - it doesn't matter what else you do, if you don't hold at least 90% of your catches you've not got a prayer. If you hold more than 95%, you've got a pretty good chance, especially if the few you drop are off tailenders.