The Strategy-Focused Organization

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MAKING STRATEGY A CONTINUAL PROCESS

IN CHAPTER 1, WE NOTED HOW MOST COMPANIES ENCOUNTER serious difficulties when implementing strategy. Our research indicates that the problem is more than a failure of CEO leadership. Systemic forces in organizations inhibit strategy implementation. As researchers have observed, managing strategy is fundamentally different from managing operations.¹

We have found it useful to think of each of these processes—managing strategy and managing operations—as a self-contained control and learning loop. ...