‘Hierarchy Of Purpose’ For Strategy Success

At a recent meeting of OPEN MINDS senior associates, we talked about the difficulties of making strategy work. The team consensus was that it’s far more difficult to implement a strategy than develop a strategy – and while a good strategy is essential, it is not an asset if it is not implemented.

We've written a lot about strategy implementation before, focusing on key themes like how to define your strategy (see What’s A Strategy, Anyway?); how to adapt to models for rapid cycle innovation (see From Strategy To Action); where ethics fit into your strategic decisionmaking (see . . .