Strategic Planning - Implementing and Execution
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Strategic planning has no value unless the plans can be implemented and executed properly. Thinking has to be translated into action. Here you find help with implementing your plans and making them come alive.
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Strategic Planning - Implementing and Execution
By Jonathan Byrnes
Profitability management, the theme of this column, is all about translating great strategies into sound plans -- and sound plans into effective tactical actions
(Added: 1-Jun-2005 Hits: 1064)
By Lauren Keller Johnson
So how is the execution of your new strategy going so far? Have all departments in the company come together with groundbreaking unity to deliver on the promise of top management's brilliantly conceived plan for market domination? Has your stock price soared? Is the board of directors handing out big bonus checks?
If things have not gone quite so swimmingly, don't worry, at least you are in the majority. According to a recent Ernst & Young study, a full 66 per cent of corporate strategy is never executed.
(Added: 1-Jun-2005 Hits: 1252)
By Jim Heskett
In "Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them," the authors contend that a predictable surprise has several discerning characteristics
(Added: 20-Jun-2005 Hits: 947)
By na
For better or worse, why do so many companies veer off their strategic plan? Look for a disconnect between strategy and how resources are allocated, say Harvard Business School’s Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert.
(Added: 18-Jan-2006 Hits: 911)
By na
The best-laid plans can go awry if no one is responsible for results. In this interview, author C. Davis Fogg argues that holding people accountable is the secret to successful strategic planning.
(Added: 31-May-2005 Hits: 1473)
By James P. Cramer
One of the reasons people do not engage in strategic planning is because they have been nonplussed by their past experience with strategic planning. And the plans themselves have often been put in a file and made little difference. The message of my letter to you this month is that you must strategically plan your future during this time of sea change and just as importantly, you must implement that plan with unfailing diligence.
(Added: 23-Mar-2006 Hits: 734)