The Devil Is In The Details: What Goes Into Your Strategy Implementation Workplan

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work”
Peter Drucker

What makes a strategy happen? Executives of the “best executing companies” attributed their success to the degree to which strategy is incorporated in day-today organizational operations, with good alignment with the organization’s business model (this was a global leadership survey published in Why Good Strategies Fail: Lessons For The C-Suite in The Economist). And “best executing” was defined as completing 20%+ of their strategic initiatives over a three-year period.

My experience is that the organizations that successfully implement strategies have a detailed . . .