Robust Strategic Planning  to Disciplined Strategy Implementation 

Strategy Execution Process

The process challenges the assumption that strategy comes first. Strategy and execution are intertwined. It is like ' Building a plane while flying it'

The four stages of process are
1. Health Check : Identification of areas of improvement
2. Plan & Pilot: Development & testing of proposed solutions
3. Rollout : Implementation of process across all units
4. Institutionalization :  Ensuring that the process is well established and is driving sustainable improvement

What Impedes Execution?

Strategy Implementation Bleeds to Death There are a lot of organizations where strategy implementation fails because of  a combination of a lot of small issues across the organization.

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Or IIM - MBA Model of Producing Arm Chair Thinkers
Management students are trained to strategize, not execute. They are trained to understand complex management models, but never taught the basics of execution.

Strategy Activation & Strategy Failure : Bridging the Gap :Many companies fail to relate business strategies to the realities of their daily business practices.

Innovation & Execution :McKinsey research reveals a wide gap between the aspirations of executives to innovate and their ability to execute. Organizational structures and processes are not the solution.

 

 

 

 

Strategy Execution Resources

Sarvajeet Chandra's Blog on Strategy Execution Process

Organization Effectiveness Simulator :Have you ever wondered how your organization rates in terms of getting things done?

Sarvajeet Chandra's Slideshows on Slideshare

 

What it takes to Execute

Strategy Execution with Balanced Scorecard: An excellent strategy easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan calls "fighting fires."

Strategy Implementation From Bottom Up

The Front Line will determine whether the strategy has delivered the desired outcomes or not.

 

Making Strategy Work  in Marketplace   Studies show that nine out of ten business strategies are poorly implemented in the marketplace. In fact poor execution is the number-one reason businesses fail

 

Management Control System - 21 Times of Dragging a Horse to the Water
Translates to developing habit for  something simple: forecast, plan, control & report

 

Executing Global Strategies:
Accelerated Design Process Yields Quick Results