An expert playbook for effective strategy execution with a focus on proven, real-world, implementation
In The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at Scale, a team of renowned strategy execution researchers and consultants delivers a practical and insightful new take on how to effectively execute strategy in today's complex, fast-changing environments. The authors focus on the often missing “HOW” of strategy execution - exploring the holistic perspectives, skills, and approaches needed to inform and translate strategy and create and maintain a “line-of-sight” between your strategy and its execution. You'll find proven techniques that you can implement to ensure that changes in business strategy are reflected in complementary changes to the organizational project portfolio. The Execution Challenge includes over 70 diagrams and figures, an organizational assessment, and reusable frameworks.
You'll also discover:
- A comprehensive leadership toolkit of approaches, skills, knowledge, processes, and examples you can employ immediately to translate and execute on even the most ambitious strategies
- A multidimensional and nuanced perspective on understanding modern organizational structures and design that provides a comprehensive view of your firm's value proposition
- How to align business strategy with project-level execution and maintain the alignment as strategy evolves
A can't-miss toolkit for converting words and ideas into coordinated action and momentum, The Execution Challenge is the real-world guide to strategy execution that executives, strategists, transformation and innovation leaders, strategic planners, managers, directors, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders have been waiting for.
Table of Contents
Foreword xxvii
Preface xxix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Strategy Development, Alignment, and Execution 5
Chapter 2: The Role of Strategic Business Architecture in Strategy Development and Execution 47
Chapter 3: The Strategic Business Architecture Toolkit 89
Chapter 4: Leveraging a Capability Perspective for Strategy Translation and Alignment 147
Chapter 5: Strategic Portfolio Management and Effective Strategy Execution 191
Chapter 6: Linking Strategic Business Architecture with Other Architectural Domains and Other Business Functions and Disciplines 225
Chapter 7: Building the Strategic Business Architecture Function and Integration with Strategic Planning 265
Chapter 8: Scaling and Maturing the Strategic Business Architecture Function 299
Chapter 9: Strategy Execution Trends and the Application of Strategic Business Architecture 339
Endnotes 355
Acknowledgments 361
About the Authors 363
Index 367
