Every organization is unique and every implementation is different. We discovered, however, in our ten years of research, eight areas of excellence in execution, where all the organizations who successfully implemented their strategy, focused. In Bridges these eight areas evolved into our proprietary tool, the Implementation Compass (TM). Excellence in execution is not about doing one or two things well, such as changing measures or communicating the strategy. It is about doing eight things well, simultaneously.

The Implementation Compass is a framework that provides you with the structure for your strategy to make it come alive. Instead of wandering aimlessly through the implementation maze it allows you to assess your implementation readiness and identify the key areas to tackle.

The eight points of the Compass: People, Biz Case, Communicate, Measure, Culture, Process, Reinforce and Review have not changed since its introduction. In fact it has been developed further. In Beyond Strategy (my new book) the Implementation Compass provides the headers for the chapters and each chapter ends with the actions leaders must take.

Excellence in execution is not about doing one or two things well, such as changing measures or communicating the strategy. It is about doing eight things well, simultaneously.

Robin
http://www.strategyimplementationblog.com

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