Challenges Archives - Strategy 2 Execution

Hard to Execute Your Strategy When You Lose Your Hard Drive

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00

It's hard to execute a strategy when all of a sudden your hard drive crashes. It's happened to me a couple of times now. No matter how good you are

Better Execution: Stick to Your Strategy? [Part 2]

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00

Summary of Suggested Rules:

A strategy that changes too often puts initiatives and execution in disarray.
A strategy that changes too infrequently becomes irrelevant. The targeted outcomes and their associated initiatives are relevant by chance rather than by design.
Few organizations can change their strategy at the speed of change. Most strategies reside in binders and PowerPoint presentations. They are not easily altered, and rarely read.
Organizations can translate their strategy into targeted outcomes. It allows the organization to modify these targeted outcomes and their associated initiatives at the speed of change. Execution stays relevant.
Strategy as translated into targeted outcomes can exist at any level of an organization. Targeted outcomes are the object of successful execution. The above rules apply to execution at any level of an organization.

Better Execution: Change Your Strategy? [Part 1]

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00

Rob May of BusinessPundit.com, poses a really interesting question in a Blog posting. ““Does Change Help Link Strategy and Execution?" He’s curious about how companies can improve the link between

7 Steps to Eliminate Your Organizations’ Sacred Cows

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00

The University of Michigan, surveyed 308 executives during 2005 on the variables that were most likely to derail their strategy. The variable chosen most frequently, by 38% of the respondents

Did You Just Volunteer for Some Work?

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00

We don’t generally think of corporations and government organizations as volunteer organizations, but stop and think about it. How much of where you allocate your own time is influenced by

How Many Strategy Binders Do You Have? Get Strategy Out of the Binders

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00

One of the first things that I do with a new client is to ask to see any documents regarding their last strategy. What I get is usually a thick

It’s Hard to Get on the Same Page When Everyone Speaks a Different Language

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00

The Tower of Babel It is exceptionally difficult getting everyone on the same page to execute a strategy or high-level targeted outcome. It’s especially hard to do when

Current Execution Methods Can’t Deal with Unpredictable Change: Hope is Not a Method

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00Tags: Change, execution, hope, Method, outcomes, same page, silos, strategy, transparency, Unpredictable|

Much of the change in organizations seems be unpredictable to those experiencing it. In those cases where you feel that you are the one instigating the change, it feels unpredictable

Bringing Together Financial Measures, Strategy and Execution, Enterprise Architecture and Change Efforts: Targeted Outcomes to the Rescue!

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:33-07:00

Lack of Coordinated Effort at the Enterprise Level I've rarely been in a meeting where the following leaders have met to bring about a coordinated effort to synchronize their key

Business Context Changes Faster Than You Can Execute Anything Important.

Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:33-07:00

One of the primary guidelines I share with clients is; Business context changes faster than you can execute anything important. How relevant is that? I just had a long term