The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at Scale (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781394210435)

An expert playbook for effective strategy execution with a focus on proven, real-world, implementation

In The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at Scale, a team of renowned strategy execution researchers and consultants delivers a practical and insightful new take on how to effectively execute strategy in today's complex, fast-changing environments. The authors focus on the often missing "HOW" of strategy execution -- exploring the holistic perspectives, skills, and approaches needed to inform and translate strategy and create and maintain a "line-of-sight" between your strategy and its execution. You'll find proven techniques that you can implement to ensure that changes in business strategy are reflected in complementary changes to the organizational project portfolio. The Execution Challenge includes over 70 diagrams and figures, an organizational assessment, and reusable frameworks.

You'll also discover:

• A comprehensive leadership toolkit of approaches, skills, knowledge, processes, and examples you can employ immediately to translate and execute on even the most ambitious strategies
• A multidimensional and nuanced perspective on understanding modern organizational structures and design that provides a comprehensive view of your firm's value proposition
• How to align business strategy with project-level execution and maintain the alignment as strategy evolves

A can't-miss toolkit for converting words and ideas into coordinated action and momentum, The Execution Challenge is the real-world guide to strategy execution that executives, strategists, transformation and innovation leaders, strategic planners, managers, directors, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders have been waiting for.