50 Executing Strategy
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trategic alignment across a company is achieved through
the planning process—including delegating priority issues,
approving strategic-initiative action plans, and allocating resources.
To ensure that the execution of an organization’s strategy remains
on course, senior managers and unit leaders must constantly review
and assess progress. Let’s now look at ways to do that.
Reviewing progress
You can track progress, and thus ensure alignment, through these
practices:
• Check in informally. Stay close to the implementation action,
and proactively uncover any ...