Making it stick
Strategy implementation and delivery.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Strategic Thinking
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
A strategy that is never implemented is no strategy at all. This module examines the say-do gap, the four places implementation breaks down, ownership, translation, competing priorities and review, and applies the doability and desirability indices at frontline level. It looks at who can quietly stop a strategy through inaction, draws on strategy-execution research including Sull and colleagues, and closes on fewer priorities, named owners and honest review. Frameworks are easy to admire in isolation and harder to recognise when they operate together under political pressure. This capstone introduces no new theory. It tests the toolkit against three documented cases: the London Congestion Charge, Aldi and Lidl in the United Kingdom, and DONG Energy's transformation into Orsted. It names four ways the toolkit is misused and reduces the whole topic to four questions to carry into real decisions.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Identify which of the four breakdown points, ownership, translation, competing priorities or review, is undermining a strategy and describe the remedy for each.
- Apply the doability and desirability indices at both board and frontline level and interpret a gap between them as a design signal.
- Plan the people side of implementation by identifying who could stop a strategy through passive non-cooperation and whose cooperation it assumes.
- Identify which frameworks, including the Strategic Choice Approach, Cynefin, Five Forces, Blue Ocean and Rumelt's kernel, were in play in each of the three cases.
- Compare the three cases to explain what they shared: reading context correctly, choosing rather than hedging, and sustaining implementation over years.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 11Strategic Implementation: Making It StickA strategy that is never implemented is no strategy at all. This module examines the say-do gap, the four places implementation breaks down, ownership, translation, competing priorities and review, and applies the doability and desirability indices at frontline level. It looks at who can quietly stop a strategy through inaction, draws on strategy-execution research including Sull and colleagues, and closes on fewer priorities, named owners and honest review.38 min
- 12Applied Case Studies and CapstoneFrameworks are easy to admire in isolation and harder to recognise when they operate together under political pressure. This capstone introduces no new theory. It tests the toolkit against three documented cases: the London Congestion Charge, Aldi and Lidl in the United Kingdom, and DONG Energy's transformation into Orsted. It names four ways the toolkit is misused and reduces the whole topic to four questions to carry into real decisions.41 min
Keep going.
Part of the Strategic Thinking topic, also sold whole as The strategic mind.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, From plan to practice, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Strategy into action, 4 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, The strategic mind, 7 hours 30 minutes, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Setting the course, Taking the director’s chair, Leading at the strategic level
Other Bitesize in the Strategic Thinking topic
- Seeing the bigger pictureStrategic thinking and environmental scanning1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Knowing where you standStrategic analysis: context, position and choice1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Choices under uncertaintyStrategic choice models and decisions under risk1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Judgement in a changing worldCognitive bias, judgement and AI in strategy1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Shaping the organisationOrganisation design and target operating models1 hour 15 minutes£39
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