Though 90% of strategy failure during implementation, however the dilemma is that every organization, every manager, and every one of us at some point in time needs to strategize implement operate the derived strategy. 

The objective of this 3-day workshop addresses the amalgam of issues that hinder the successful execution of a strategy. It provides a step-by-step approach to overcome the pitfalls in converting a strategy into a portfolio of programs and projects to attain the required business results. A mediocre strategy being implemented successfully is more beneficial than an excellent strategy that is implemented poorly.

COURSE OUTLINE

The 3-day action learning workshop covers from deriving the right coherent strategy, to executing the coherent strategy by converting into projects, through to getting the business results.

Strategize

• The development of a coherent strategy needs to address 4 key success factors in strategy execution, i.e. clarity in planning, converting strategy into achievable targets, prioritization of resources, and excellence in execution support.
• There are 4 barriers that hinder the successful execution of a strategy, i.e. inadequate strategic planning, speed of strategic decisiveness, frequency of environmental turbulence, speed of organizational responsiveness.
• Holistic approach to strategic planning using 8 proven integrated tools to derive a coherent strategy.
• Case illustration and action learning practice by participants.

Implement

• The effectiveness of successful implementation of a coherent strategy is measured by an enterprise balance scorecard incorporating innovation and growth, internal business processes, customer experience, and sustainable financial performance.
• Converting strategy into prioritized projects need to go through the 8 fits, i.e. strategic, leadership, structural, cultural, capability, organizational development, communications, and technology.
• Discipline in execution is crucial to project. Project leadership is accountability, i.e. process ownership to get the job done. Ability to execute requires the organization to create a common language for work. Technology enhances the speed of execution.
• There are 3 types of leadership for successful execution of strategy through projects, i.e. team leadership for light-weight project, transformational leadership for medium weight-project, and authentic leadership for heavy-weight project. Leadership is critical to energize and lead the team to thrive for stretched targets.

Operate

• The effectiveness of human capital development in translating strategy into action advantage is measured by KPIs reflecting on individual’s and team’s targets that are attainable and aligned to the coherent strategy.
• There are 6 key processes to ensure the business results of revenue growth, liquidity, and profitability, i.e. awareness, alignment, action, adoption, assurance, and anticipation of risks to strive and thrive for the vision.
• Consistency in the people’s behaviour in the S-I-O chain is the chief success factor to attain a high performance culture, i.e. values drive behaviours, and behaviours drive results.
• Construct the coherent strategy map to permeate the projectised organization to minimize conflict and communication barrier.

LEARNING OUTCOME

Take Home Value

The focus of this course is on developing 21st century action learning management competence to ensure that strategy starts from the strategic level is cascaded to the business unit level and connected to the operations level is truly coherence. This 3-day course has three take home values:

• Enhancing execution capability of participant.
• Enabling sharing of leadership styles relevant to successful strategy implementation.
• Ensuring the hands-on experience of how to develop an enterprise balanced scorecard.

What You Will Learn:

You will transform your knowledge of strategic management from theory to practice that works:

• Understand the importance of alignment of values (what we believe?) to mission (why we exist?) and vision (what we want to be?) in the development of a coherent strategy focusing on the core competence of the organizational capability.
• Understand the imperative of clarity in planning for converting the coherent strategy into prioritized projects to achieve on-time, on-budget, on-target requirements, leveraging on teamwork.
• Understand the paramount importance of the right team composition, depending on the size and complexity of the project which requires different competence.

Summary

What did you learn and how will you do differ

TARGET AUDIENCE

PMPs (this course is approved by PMI for 21 PDUs), managers and team members who are responsible for executing their strategies to achieve the established goals, objectives and targets. The effective execution of a strategy is measured by the successful completion of projects based on relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the team and individual.