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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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: 1141)
By Mark Henricks
Businesspeople don't necessarily follow flawed strategies because they're greedy, arrogant or careless. Our brains are wired in ways that tend to prevent us from following tried-and-true strategic principles.
That's the view of Charles Roxburgh, a London director of consulting firm McKinsey & Co. who cites behavioral economics studies that show decision-makers commit similar mistakes in ways that suggest irrational behavior is innate. Below are the eight hidden strategy flaws Roxburgh has identified and strategies to help you overcome them.
(Added: 20-Jun-2005 Hits: 606)
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In his new book Making Strategy Work (Wharton School Publishing, January 2005), Hrebiniak says that many of today's top executives are far better at developing strategy than executing it and overcoming the political and organizational obstacles that stand in their way. Senior executive editor Patricia Brown spoke with Hrebiniak about overcoming the obstacles to execution and how CIOs can build systematic road maps for tackling it.
(Added: 1-Jun-2005 Hits: 749)
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: 534)
