Executing Strategy

82 Tools for Executing Strategy

Alignment Checklist

Use this tool to check for misalignment between your action plan for a strategic initiative

and the corporate strategy.

Part 1: Sources of Misalignment

For each statement below, check “Yes” if you think the statement accurately describes the

implementation of your action plan. Check “No” if you think the statement doesn’t accu-

rately describe the implementation of your action plan.

Statement

As you began to implement your action plan, individuals added new objectives and new

steps to the plan.

As you continued to implement the plan, people removed some objectives and steps to

reduce costs or speed up ...