Strategic Execution: Achieving Breakthrough Performance

In a VUCA environment, your strategic plan is likely to be obsolete before you meet your goals. Real-world strategy execution is complex because plans ultimately change, making it absolutely critical to develop strong capabilities that drive value and performance. This program offers frameworks, assessments and tools for creating the organizational capabilities necessary for breakthrough strategic execution, and addresses the importance of agility as an organizational capability that allows firms to maintain alignment in their strategy, no matter where the target moves.

A key component of this program is learning and practicing with the 4A Framework through workshops, case discussions and simulations to improve their organization's:

ALIGNMENT

• Creating a top team that is focused on purpose and strategic intent.
• Building that alignment throughout the organization, with shared purpose and mutual accountability.
• Developing a metrics model that grounds strategy in operational imperatives.

ARCHITECTURE

• Creating an organization operating model, and core capabilities, that deliver distinctive value to customers.
• Clarifying and improving the combination of people, processes, and systems that generate capabilities.
• Overcoming bureaucratic hurdles and barriers to performance.

ABILITY

• Creating a high performance culture that energizes breakthrough productivity and innovation.
• Building a talent pipeline and leadership bench that propel the organization.
• Generating better collaboration within the enterprise and with other firms.

AGILITY

• Developing situational awareness of peripheral events, and deep understanding of customer needs
• Lowering the center of gravity for decision making to empower employee experimentation and rapid learning.
• Developing capacity for dynamic resourcing to reallocate people, finances, and information to accelerate change.