Execution of Strategy – Fresh Approaches are Needed
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Hard to Execute Your Strategy When You Lose Your Hard Drive
Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00It'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
Successful Execution of Strategy in Japan (Part 1 of 3)
Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00We all learn in different ways. One approach says there are three basic learning styles: visual, through seeing aural, through listening feeling, through trying/ doing. Organizational change usually requires learning
Better Execution: Stick to Your Strategy? [Part 2]
Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00Summary 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 Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00Rob 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 Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00The 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 Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00We 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
The Disconnect between Strategy and Execution
Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00There is not enough focused effort to address the gap between strategy and execution. George Ambler's blog The Practice of Leadership, has found a great survey on the Disconnect between
The Office of Strategy Management: A Good Idea or Not?
Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00There is some disagreement around the value of the creation of an Office of Strategy Management. Some years ago I suggested that there was a needed successor to the Program
How Many Strategy Binders Do You Have? Get Strategy Out of the Binders
Ron Lamb2017-07-02T16:07:32-07:00One 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