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The Toughest Part of Strategy? Execution!

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Execution represents a disciplined process that enables an organization to take a strategy and make it work. Without a careful, planned approach to execution, strategic goals cannot be attained. Why don''t companies spend more time developing and perfecting processes that help them achieve their strategic goals?

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The Five Domains of Balancing Both Strategy and Execution

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Remember when we could simply distinguish between strategy formulation as "thinking" (analysis, planning, setting goals, etc.) and strategy execution as "doing" (follow-through, top-to-bottom, operational, goal achieving, etc.)? The focus is about ensuring organizational commitment and alignment to the strategy. Operations.

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Five Steps to Successful Execution of a Strategy

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You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. If you’re like most companies, odds are you have no problem coming up with worthy long term goals and basic plans for achieving them. So, how do you go about designing this process? The success of doing both.

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The Five Domains of Balancing Both Strategy and Execution

Six Disciplines

Remember when we could simply distinguish between strategy formulation as "thinking" (analysis, planning, setting goals, etc.) and strategy execution as "doing" (follow-through, top-to-bottom, operational, goal achieving, etc.)? The focus is about ensuring organizational commitment and alignment to the strategy. Operations.

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The Six Disciplines Video Library

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Strategic Focus (The Right Goals, The Right Focus). Goal-Setting (What Is A Good Goal?). Process Management (The Foundation For Aligning Systems). Process Definition (Clarity Is Key). Process Improvement (A Never-Ending Process, With Good Reason). Commitment?). Execution (Working The Plan).

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CapitalWorks - A Six Disciplines Client Case Study Part 1

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Defining Goals. All portfolio companies are presented the option of working with Six Disciplines, but it is up to each individual company’s management team to make the commitment to the process and program. They have found measurable success with Six Disciplines’ Total Performance Excellence program.

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So.How Did Your Company Perform In The First Quarter?

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How are you tracking against the goals you set for Q1? Here are seven steps for effective organizational change for the rest of 2011: Create a commitment to change. Define a shared vision of what you want to commit to it. Without a clear commitment, you'll create chaos for the change you want to achieve.

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