Strategy Realisation

How effective is your Strategy Realisation?

There are simple ways to judge whether your strategy realisation process is working:

Obviously look for business results and progress on the delivery of targets and KPI's (Key Performance Indicators).

You need also to look for signs that your people have really got the corporate message and have taken it to heart.

A well known story illustrates the point:

A group of US Senators were visiting NASA at the time when funding was under threat. One Senator asked a man cleaning the floor "So what are you doing here?" The man answered, "I'm here putting a man on the Moon!"

How closely do your people identify and associate their own roles with your organizational purpose?

Do your people really know what your corporate aims are, and if so do they see and agree with how they fit into the scheme?

Sadly in many organizations the vast majority of staff do not understand the corporate aims, let alone see themselves as an integral part of the effort.

Strategy realisation will not happen without the people being an enthusiastic part of the effort. All to easy to say; another thing entirely to make happen.

The 'Man on the Moon' statement is a real benchmark of the process quality for turning any strategy into action - whether for a team, a department or a corporation.

Every single person must know what they are doing, why they are doing it, and above all, must be fully committed to doing what they are doing.

If your methods enable every single person to know what they are doing, and why, and to be emotionally committed to it, then the process of turning strategy into action is probably working.

Ask yourself some of these questions and you will begin to see how to make your own strategies happen.