Strategic planning and strategy execution

It’s no secret that most strategic plans fail to deliver their intended results. Often, the problem isn’t the strategy, but how it’s implemented. Get people focused on the results they need to accomplish, instead of overloading them with activities and to-do lists. When the desired results are clear, it brings tremendous focus.  

Importance

50%

Development

80%

Implementation

44%

of leaders rated implementation as equal in importance to strategy.

believe their organisation is good at developing strategy.

of leaders feel their company is good at implementation

Effort

98%

Opportunity Gap

61%

Confidence

2%

of leaders think strategy implementation takes more time than strategy formulation.

of leaders acknowledge that their firms often struggle to bridge the gap between strategy formulation and its day-to-day implementation.

of leaders are confident that they will achieve 80-100% of their strategy’s objectives.

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