ABSTRACT

The purpose of this chapter is to cover issues pertaining to:

The strategic risks of focusing upon meeting short-term financial targets.

Damaging strategy implementation due to poor leadership.

Damaging strategy implementation by retaining outmoded conventions.

Strategy implementation impaired by inappropriate structures or systems.

The adverse impact on strategy implementation of ineffective top teams.

Poor situation analysis impairing assessment of strategic performance.

The adverse impact of ineffective strategic control systems.