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Strategy Delivery.

Who really cares?

Session presented 7th March


We all talk a good game on strategy delivery – we sit up straight when it gets discussed. But if strategy delivery success rates are as low as reputed to be – does anyone actually really care about strategy delivery? Or - are we each just focused on our specific areas and our operational targets?


Is it the case that the only strategic activity that happens is that which aligns with each individuals own personal priorities? How would we know otherwise?


It is therefore vital we know about the different perspectives that key people might have about strategy, strategy delivery and the challenges they face in both.


How can you bring people together to consider common challenges and shared solutions from an organizational perspective as well as a personal one - and start to develop a plan to improve?

David and Andrey welcomed attendees to think about who they would need to engage to improve strategy delivery.


The session recapped the pains of strategy delivery - gathered from basic research and previous events.


We introduced illustrations of our strategy information and operating models to enable discussion. We then asked attendees to describe the clarity of their strategic process outputs - which have been captured into the recording (see below).


The next section suggested that the way to start improving strategy delivery is to quietly engage people about their perceptions and pains. A process was simulated to identify who, map their roles and responsibilities, then some example profiles for CEO / COO where we captured their reality challenges and expectations.


We also discussed the key roles of senior managers in addition to the director level, and went on to explore the role of these people in improving strategy delivery.


As an engagement tool we offered the 14 core principles in BIG to structure discussions and signposted the illustrations available in BIG which people can use to sketch around and scribble upon in workshops and 1:1 meetings.


We then proceeded to talk about the engagement challenges the audience had faced in trying to get improvement in strategy delivery.


In the leas section, we made reference to Kotter, outlined our First Steps service to help a sponsor engage their senior colleagues, and offered our lifecycle to make strategy delivery changes - using the Business Integrated Governance Framework.

Agenda

  • Recap on strategy delivery challenges - what have we learned from experience
  • Board level perspectives (e.g. CEO, COO...) on strategy delivery - the obvious path to the future distracted by the pothole filled path to the present?
  • Management level perspectives on strategy delivery - the obvious path to the present distracted by the pothole filled path to the future?
  • First Steps - Consensus building on 'the problem', unravelling the complexity of balance

David Dunning

Director

Andrey Malakhov

Partner - PMLogix



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