Week 90 (4.1.09)

Learn (Exploring Corporate Strategy - Strategy Implementation, Pg 22)

• Strategy implementation is the translation of strategy into action.
• Successful implementation of strategy is likely to be dependent on the extent to which these various components work together to provide, in themselves, competences which other organisations find it difficult to match.
• Questions likely to be important in planning strategy implementation can include the following:

1. Who is responsible for carrying through the strategy?
2. What changes in organisational structure and design are needed to carry through the strategy?
3. There may also be a need to adapt the systems used to manage the organisation.
4. What will different departments be held responsible for?
5. What sort of information systems are needed to monitor progress?
6. Implementation will also involve resource planning, including the logistics of implementation.
7. What are the key tasks needing to be carried out?
8. What changes need to be made in the resource mix of the organisation?
9. Is there a need for new people or the retraining of the workforce?

The implementation of strategy also requires the managing of strategic change; and this requires action on the part of managers in terms of the way they manage change processes, and the mechanisms they use for it.

These mechanisms are likely to be concerned not only with organisational redesign, but also with changing day-to-day routines and cultural aspects of the organisation, and overcoming political blockages to change.

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Interesting to learn and apply the appropriate mechanisms on managing strategic change, which involves changing the normal day-to-day routines and cultural aspects of the organisation. It could be a big challenge!!