ABSTRACT

Strategy implementation - or strategy execution - is a hot topic today. Managers spend significant resources on consulting and training, in the hope of creating brilliant strategies, but all too often brilliant strategies do not translate into brilliant performance.

This book presents new conceptual models and tools that can be used to implement different strategies. The author analyses how market leaders have benefitted from successful strategy implementation and provides the reader with a comprehensive and systematic framework to tackle strategy implementation challenges.

Have clear strategic choices been made? Are actions aligned with the strategy? What’s the organizational context for the strategy? In answering these simple questions, the book provides students of strategic management, along with managers involved in designing and implementing strategies, with a valuable resource.

part |58 pages

Achieving competitive advantage through strategy, alignment and commitment

part |67 pages

Strategy implementation at product leaders

chapter |27 pages

What does it take to be a Product Leader?

How product leaders implement strategy

chapter |21 pages

Strategy Implementation in Practice

Studio 100: a showcase in show business 1

part |68 pages

Strategy implementation at operational excellence companies

chapter |27 pages

What does it take to be Operationally Excellent?

How operationally excellent firms implement strategy

chapter |19 pages

Strategy Implementation in Practice

ING Direct USA — a rebel in the US banking industry

part |70 pages

Strategy implementation at customer-intimacy firms

chapter |27 pages

What does it take to be Customer Intimate?

How customer-intimacy organizations implement strategy

chapter |19 pages

Strategy Implementation in Practice

Châteauform': customer intimacy and beyond 1