Implementing Your Strategic Plan: How to Turn "Intent" Into Effective Action for Sustainable Change

By C. Davis Fogg

Book Overview

Implementing Your Strategic plan is a practical, process-oriented book on how to implement strategic plans. It is based on extensive interviews with CEOs and the authors extensive experience ,and it contains dozens of illustrations of "real" plans and processes.The book examines the 18 keys to success in implementing strategy including: accountability systems; turning strategic priorities into action; departmental planning; accountability; organization structure;people changes; creative leadership and mental toughness; removing resistance;using teams; defining the future culture; allocation of resources; aligning the organization's work from top to bottom; empowering execution; selecting, training and developing for the future; fixing broken core processes; communication; reviewing performance; rewarding strategic results."Implementing Your Strategic Plan" addresses the strategic change process and has an extensive section of comments by CEOs about their personal experience with implementing strategy.It is a practical book, presenting real examples, that will guide the reader through implementing strategy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419645617
• ISBN13: 9781419645617
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

The More Times Change...

...the more they stay the same. Despite the fact that this book was written and published more than five years ago, it's still the best book written on strategy execution and implementation. Alright,... I'll admit it: the book's title and cover design need a little work (author take note!!). However, if you're willing to look past these superficial flaws, you'll discover the definative book on strategy implementation -- even better than Larry Bossidy's fine "Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done." In addition to this book and Bossidy's "Execution," I'd also recommend that you consider Kotter's "Leading Change" and Smallwood, Ulrich, and Zenger's "Results-Based Leadership" (both five-star books!!). Bottom line? "Implementing Your Strategic Plan" is a must addition to your management library. Overall grade: B+/A.

Making strategic intent into a reality.

This book could have been titled "making change happen." The core of this book consists of a chapter by chapter discussion of the 18 keys to implementing the strategic plan. The 18 keys are grouped into five categories: setting accountability; enabling and aligning action; fixing the organization; providing an environment in which people can excel; and judging and rewarding. This is a superb, penetrating and detailed book which begins with a fascinating summary of findings from the author's survey of CEOs and key executives who were successful in implementing change. One insight stands out from these findings-teams don't develop paradigm shift strategies; CEOs do. Indeed Fogg states that the single most important factor in the change equation is leadership. With that truth set forth up front, we were confident that this book would be a rewarding experience; it was...and we highly recommend it!