Jumping The ‘Strategy-To-Execution Gap’?

In markets experiencing rapid change or significant disruption, nothing changes more than strategy (see Strategic Planning - Just As Critical As Ever). But the "five-year plan" of my early career has been replaced by annual planning tied to the budget cycle, with a disciplined quarterly “recalibration.” That recalibration is based on metrics-based tracking of the trends in organizational competitive advantage and sustainability.

As I've written about before, strategy without effective implementation is pointless (see Deliberate Incrementalism – The Key To Good Strategy Implementation and ‘Hierarchy Of Purpose’ For Strategy Success). I'm reminded of the Peter Drucker adage, "Plans . . .