Strategic Execution

Great execution starts with strategy: knowing what your strategy is, ensuring it’s a good one, doing and understanding the details, and translating desire and what’s ‘on paper’ into impactful action.  

Not every strategy is ‘fit for purpose’ with respect to execution. Many execution challenges can be traced back directly to challenges on the strategy and strategic plan front: lack of clarity, poor communication, cumbersome plans, ill-thought-out dependencies, insufficient resources and the list goes on.

This program will enable you to thoroughly interrogate the fitness of your current strategy with respect to its potential for execution success.

In this program, you will learn to:

• Prioritize your vision and strategy on what is important right now

• Differentiate vertical and horizontal execution and best practices for integrating them

• Connect strategy and execution with key decision making

• Understand the value of execution and how it differs from strategic planning

• Diagnose your execution barriers and measure execution performance

• Identify and prepare for the opportunities and challenges in a changing business environment

In this program, you will have an opportunity to use your organization’s existing strategy and strategic plan as the basis for applying the tools and identifying opportunities to make both better. More importantly, you will use a gap analysis tool to identify specific actions you might need to undertake to close any gaps and/or analyze any barriers to execution that might need time and attention.

Today, fewer than half of organizations declare they are successful at achieving strategic objectives, whereas 30 years ago, the success rate was 90%. What’s changed? And more importantly, how can you beat the odds to move beyond planning and actually make things happen?

Most leaders agree that the environment is increasingly challenging to navigate, but there’s more to it than that. Organizations have become enamoured with planning without equal emphasis on the execution of the resulting strategy.

This program instills a new mindset surrounding strategic execution - a complex organizational capability that can be measured and managed as a core competency. You will learn to drive results by establishing a comprehensive strategic execution plan and leave the program prepared to establish a significant competitive advantage by turning best-laid plans into real business results.