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Strategic Look At Strategy Execution |
In his new book Making Strategy Work Wharton Professor Lawrence
Hrebiniak says that many of today's top executives are far better at
developing strategy than executing it and overcoming the political
and organizational obstacles that stand in their way. 2005 |
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Building Support for your Strategic Plan: Aligning employees with
strategy |
In this article, Robert Bradford explains how to make your strategy
an integral part of the very fiber of your organization. |
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Business Strategy: Execution Is the Key |
From the Book 'Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and
Change' - see our literature recommendation above. Also click on the
links to the following chapters in the 'Article Information'-box |
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Closing the strategy-to-performance gap: |
Techniques for turning great strategy into great performance. Pdf-file
2005 |
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Communicating Your Strategy |
The forgotten fundamental of strategic implementation |
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Creating the Office of Strategy Management |
Successful companies align their key management processes for
effective strategy execution. Many of these companies have now
sustained their focus on strategy execution by establishing a new
corporate-level unit, an Office of Strategy Management (OSM).
Article by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. 2005. pdf-file |
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Does a Balanced Scorecard Management Cockpit Increase Strategy
Implementation Performance? |
Findings of a series of experiments using a system dynamics based
micro-world. |
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Emotional Triggers in Strategy Implementation: Emotions as Advance
Feedback Signals |
Implementing strategy is challenging for many organizations , yet it
remains under-researched. Learning from emotional responses early in
the implementation process, which reveal the presence of unexpected
emotional triggers, can allow timely adjustments. In other words,
emotions can serve as advance feedback signals in strategy
implementation. |
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How
to use your Vision |
You've completed your strategic planning process. Your team has
developed a vision - one of the most powerful leadership tools. How
do you use this tool? This article contains some practical hints for
getting the most out of your new vision. |
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Introduction to Strategy Implementation |
Lecture notes. |
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Managing Strategy is Managing Change |
To execute strategy is to execute change at all levels of an
organization. Seems self-evident but overlooking this truth is one
of the greatest causes of falle transformation efforts. Pdf.file |
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Middle Managers’ Role in Strategy Implementation |
Different actors of the organisation are likely to have different
views on organisation’s issues. Therefore, it is interesting to find
out the differences and similarities in the views of issues that are
supposed to concern all the actors. In this paper, the interest is
mainly on how middle management sees strategy implementation.
pdf-file |
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Operational Alignment: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and
Execution |
Many businesses fail to achieve strategic objectives because they do
not successfully connect operations with goals. Effective
communication among all stakeholders is critical in bypassing this
fatal chasm. 2005 |
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Position of Strength |
When companies retain consultants to help implement strategic
initiatives, they often fall into the trap of giving up too much
control and overpaying for solutions that don’t work. Here’s how to
get your money’s worth out of expensive hired muscle. |
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Strategic and Emotional Alignment |
Why do most strategies fail to be implemented? In this article Kim
MacIlwaine discusses the importance of strategic and emotional
alignment. |
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Strategy Execution: An Oxymoron or a Powerful Formula for Corporate
Success? |
What is missing from research on the strategy execution problem and
what the author proposes to address, is a comprehensive approach to
strategy execution -- one that addresses not only the management
science portion of strategy execution, but also, the people,
cultural and organizational factors. This requires someone who is
skilled both in the science of strategy and in organizational
behavior. pdf |
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The
Challenge of Strategy Implementation |
This article discusses the typically weak relationship between
strategy formulation and strategy implementation and the importance
of the latter. Pdf-File |
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The
Dominant Genes: Organizational Survival of the Fittest |
Study finds that structural changes are half as effective as those
focused on decision-making and information yet more often used.
Clear decision rights and effective information flows have the
greatest impact on a company’s ability to successfully execute its
strategy. |
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The
Road Not Taken |
The performance gap between strategy creation and benefit
realization is frequently a company’s inability to execute the
strategies they define. So what makes this road to strategic
execution so precarious? Potential hazards may be grouped into four
basic categories: Clarification, Communication, Alignment and
Measurement. |
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Turning Strategic Vision into Action: It’s a Mind Game |
Between the board’s grand visions and the day-to-day activities of
the average employee, a gaping hole often exists where the practical
translation of a company’s strategy should be. The answer? Keep it
simple. |
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