Making Strategy Work: Strategy Execution
People, Organization and Strategic Change Management Consultants
In the end executives are faced with the straight forward task of simply getting things done. Execution is key to every goal, project or plan, and yet, oddly enough, too many leaders fall short.
Setting plans in motion to execute strategy is overcoming the political, organizational, turf, and people obstacles that stand in the way. Here's a list of the primary challenges based on interviews with top executives and managers. Do you have a disciplined approach to the challenges?
- Strategy conflicts with fiefdoms and existing power structure.
- Inability to manage change effectively or overcome internal resistance to change
- Unclear accountability for execution decisions, actions and deliverables
- Employees' lack of feeling of ownership - buy-in - of a strategy or execution plan
- Lack of a disciplined approach or guidelines for strategy execution
- Lack of an understanding of the role of organization design and behavior in the execution process
- Lack of incentives or inappropriate incentives to support execution deliverables
- Poor or vague strategy
Executives and managers can make sure that those human and organizational tendencies that act as obstacles are identified, modified and corrected. Only then does strategy execution succeed.
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