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Making strategy actionable

What you will learn in this chapter

  • How to turn strategy into initiatives, business plans and budgets
  • How to communicate your strategy
  • How to link your strategy to your organisation, systems, processes and what people do
  • How to monitor, measure and correct strategy

Congratulations. You’ve led the creation of a strategy that you are convinced is simple, sound and will enable you to win. But that’s the easy part. As I said in Chapter 10: no one ever sees the strategy, only the execution. So if you cannot make the strategy happen, you won’t succeed. Executing strategies successfully is one of the top skills managers can have.

To convert strategy into effective execution, you need to have a strategy that can be broken ...

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