Strategy Implementation: Common points of failure to avoid
Strategy is just a roadmap. It is in the doing that it becomes a journey…and a reality. Strategy implementation is the point where strategy becomes action but unfortunately, 60 % of leaders struggle to bridge this gap. Daniel Hall addresses 5 common points of implmentation failure to avoid so that your strategy takes root, rises strong, and enables the growth you’ve envisaged.
Businesses invest time and money in strategy development: identifying where the big opportunities are, what they wish their future to look like, and how they plan to achieve the growth they want.
At the end of the strategy development phase, there is a definite vision for the future, but nothing has fundamentally changed for the business. Strategy is just a roadmap, after all; it is in the doing that it becomes a journey…and a reality.
> READ THE RESEARCH: Discover how you can drive long-term growth for your business
In order to realise and extract maximum growth from your well-defined strategy, businesses must subsequently shift focus to the next critical step: strategy implementation. This is the point where strategy becomes action. Unfortunately, 61% of leaders struggle to bridge the gap between strategy development and execution.
Why is that? Daniel Hall identifies five common points of failure.
1. Old capabilities, new tricks
Businesses invest time and money in strategy development: identifying where the big opportunities are, what they wish their future to look like, and how they plan to achieve the growth they want.
At the end of the strategy development phase, there is a definite vision for the future, but nothing has fundamentally changed for the business. Strategy is just a roadmap, after all; it is in the doing that it becomes a journey…and a reality.
> READ THE RESEARCH: Discover how you can drive long-term growth for your business
In order to realise and extract maximum growth from your well-defined strategy, businesses must subsequently shift focus to the next critical step: strategy implementation. This is the point where strategy becomes action. Unfortunately, 61% of leaders struggle to bridge the gap between strategy development and execution.
Why is that? Daniel Hall identifies five common points of failure.
2. Getting bogged down in the daily grind
Businesses invest time and money in strategy development: identifying where the big opportunities are, what they wish their future to look like, and how they plan to achieve the growth they want.
At the end of the strategy development phase, there is a definite vision for the future, but nothing has fundamentally changed for the business. Strategy is just a roadmap, after all; it is in the doing that it becomes a journey…and a reality.
> READ THE RESEARCH: Discover how you can drive long-term growth for your business
In order to realise and extract maximum growth from your well-defined strategy, businesses must subsequently shift focus to the next critical step: strategy implementation. This is the point where strategy becomes action. Unfortunately, 61% of leaders struggle to bridge the gap between strategy development and execution.
Why is that? Daniel Hall identifies five common points of failure.
3. Can’t see the forest for the trees
Businesses invest time and money in strategy development: identifying where the big opportunities are, what they wish their future to look like, and how they plan to achieve the growth they want.
At the end of the strategy development phase, there is a definite vision for the future, but nothing has fundamentally changed for the business. Strategy is just a roadmap, after all; it is in the doing that it becomes a journey…and a reality.
> READ THE RESEARCH: Discover how you can drive long-term growth for your business
In order to realise and extract maximum growth from your well-defined strategy, businesses must subsequently shift focus to the next critical step: strategy implementation. This is the point where strategy becomes action. Unfortunately, 61% of leaders struggle to bridge the gap between strategy development and execution.
Why is that? Daniel Hall identifies five common points of failure.
4. Mission without control
Businesses invest time and money in strategy development: identifying where the big opportunities are, what they wish their future to look like, and how they plan to achieve the growth they want.
At the end of the strategy development phase, there is a definite vision for the future, but nothing has fundamentally changed for the business. Strategy is just a roadmap, after all; it is in the doing that it becomes a journey…and a reality.
> READ THE RESEARCH: Discover how you can drive long-term growth for your business
In order to realise and extract maximum growth from your well-defined strategy, businesses must subsequently shift focus to the next critical step: strategy implementation. This is the point where strategy becomes action. Unfortunately, 61% of leaders struggle to bridge the gap between strategy development and execution.
Why is that? Daniel Hall identifies five common points of failure.
5. Failing to win hearts and minds
Businesses invest time and money in strategy development: identifying where the big opportunities are, what they wish their future to look like, and how they plan to achieve the growth they want.
At the end of the strategy development phase, there is a definite vision for the future, but nothing has fundamentally changed for the business. Strategy is just a roadmap, after all; it is in the doing that it becomes a journey…and a reality.
> READ THE RESEARCH: Discover how you can drive long-term growth for your business
In order to realise and extract maximum growth from your well-defined strategy, businesses must subsequently shift focus to the next critical step: strategy implementation. This is the point where strategy becomes action. Unfortunately, 61% of leaders struggle to bridge the gap between strategy development and execution.
Why is that? Daniel Hall identifies five common points of failure.
A good beginning makes a good ending
Businesses invest time and money in strategy development: identifying where the big opportunities are, what they wish their future to look like, and how they plan to achieve the growth they want.
At the end of the strategy development phase, there is a definite vision for the future, but nothing has fundamentally changed for the business. Strategy is just a roadmap, after all; it is in the doing that it becomes a journey…and a reality.
> READ THE RESEARCH: Discover how you can drive long-term growth for your business
In order to realise and extract maximum growth from your well-defined strategy, businesses must subsequently shift focus to the next critical step: strategy implementation. This is the point where strategy becomes action. Unfortunately, 61% of leaders struggle to bridge the gap between strategy development and execution.
Why is that? Daniel Hall identifies five common points of failure.
