International Law

Effective execution of strategies

The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution from Harvard Business Review points out that implementation depends largely on 2 factors:

• Clarifying decision rights? for instance, specifying who ?owns? each decision and who must provide input
• Ensuring information flows where it?s needed? such as promoting managers laterally so they build networks needed for the cross-unit collaboration critical to a new strategy

Booz has also published an interesting Organization Effectiveness Simulator.

Full post as published by David Jacobson's External Insights on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).