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Strategy Execution
Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin & Elizabeth Powers
Harvard Business Review June 2008
Strategic Plan
A strategy put you on competitive map… …but only solid execution can keep
you the destination.
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Building Blocks for Strategy Execution Online Survey
• More than 26,000 people in 31 companies
• Clarifying decision rights
• Designing information flows Cornerstones!
• To identify most effective actions in enabling
• Aligning motivators organizations to implement strategy
• Making structural changes
• To rank actions in order of their relative
Capstone! influence
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Information Flow Conclusions
• To have successful strategy execution
• Improve field-to-headquarters information
– clarify decision rights and improve
• Define and distribute daily operating information flows vertically and horizontally,
metrics to the field or line
– then alter organizational structures and
realign incentives to support those moves
• Institute lateral moves and rotations
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