Steer the execution of the strategy
Are you sure you are effectively steering the Execution of your Strategy?
The execution of a strategy is the very heart of a company's success. But are you really executing it effectively? The answer to this question lies in the way you manage your indicators and, above all, in the culture you associate with them. Do you have a...
Why Does Strategic Execution Fail to Deliver Expected Results?
Strategic execution is often seen as the final step in a well-thought-out process, the point where all the pieces of the puzzle come together to achieve the set objectives. However, many companies, despite having a well-defined strategy, fail to achieve the expected...
Accelerating to Success: The Art of Fast and Collaborative Decision-Making
In the ever-changing world of business, the ability to make decisions quickly is a valuable asset for any organization that aspires to achieve its strategic goals in the medium and long term. In this article, we will explore the crucial importance of quick...
As the newly appointed CEO, your goal is to guide your company towards excellence. – The Keys to Effective Strategic Steering.
You are now in charge of this company, ready to guide its destiny to new heights. Your true success, however, lies in executing your strategy beyond your vision and ambition. To help you effectively steer this execution, we will discuss the important steps you will...
How do leaders steer the execution of their strategy?
Decide faster, drive more effectively, and reach the targets. The CEO requires visibility to respond swiftly to issues that arise; however, the current dashboard indicators are insufficient as they merely "position" the company, preventing the management committees...
Should the CEO challenge himself and get out of his comfort zone?
CEO leadership is one of the four pillars of strategic discipline, according to my book "The Discipline of Strategy Execution." An article in Forbes a few months ago outlined the essential tasks that no CEO should delegate in connection with this idea of CEO...
You have a strategic plan… and now what?
Strategic plans have real added value. Indeed, the more markets evolve, the harder competition is, the fewer resources (human and financial) are available, and the more a company needs a strategic plan. The reason is obvious: the plan ensures continuity, investment...
Strategy Execution: Can A New Management System Help You Execute Effectively?
What often keeps CEOs up at night is the gap between the execution of their strategy and the actual results. So how are CEOs of top-performing companies able to achieve their expected results? How do they quickly and successfully adapt to events and rapid changes in...
Leaders Redirect, and Executive Teams Handle Implementation Differently
The pandemic has definitively challenged the ordering of strategic priorities. Now businesses must quickly reboot, recover and reinvent themselves or just stay afloat. A rapid rethinking of everything, from re-examining business and reconsidering markets,...
Uncertainty management tools: Organizations are implementing strategic steering room
Before Before the pandemic, our strategic steering rooms (SteerVision Centers™) enabled companies to create a link between their RUN and their strategic goals by ensuring: Proper allocation of resources between annual short-term objectives (the operational “RUN”), and...
“Strategy has to be dynamic and anticipatory” (1): What is the solution adopted by the CEOs?
Despite a strategy formulated to look 3-5 years into the future, CEOs’ major concern remains the lack of execution of this strategy. The main drivers linked to performance have been defined, the management team is well-equipped with competent, committed members and...
THE GPS OF YOUR COMPANY TO STEER THE EXECUTION OF YOUR STRATEGY MORE EFFECTIVELY
Strategy : from execution to… Steering the execution Today the execution of the strategy (implementation of the MTP/3-5 year Plan) is understood as a cascade process of the strategic objectives chosen by the CEO and the Management Team. These objectives often...
Execute the Strategy and make it dynamic and anticipatory
Strategy is the path a business chooses to realize its vision, often marked out by milestones set out in a Medium Term Plan (MTP) over three to five years. Our environment changes so rapidly, it would be futile to project any further ahead. And yet the execution...
Creating shareholder value… and beyond!
The roles and responsibilities of the CEO and the management team are to meet the expectations of shareholders… but that’s not all! There is growing debate over the choice between short-term and strategic medium-term objectives, and many are the voices now...
The challenges facing CEOs are changing. CEOs are adapting to become better leaders.
The time factor. The accelerating pace of change. In recent years, many businesses have embarked on major transformation plans in order to adapt to changing markets: the need to adapt is a widely accepted certainty. There is no longer any need, nowadays, to...
Finding the Balance Between Medium-Term Strategy and Short-Term performance
Successfully taking on two often diametrically opposed challenges! Current toolsThere are many tools available for measuring the gap between targeted objectives and the results actually achieved: reporting, management control, project planning, financial dashboards,...
Steering the Execution of the Strategy … The Power of the Management Team !
Businesses must constantly adapt to the ever-accelerating pace of change in their environment: advances in technology, new competitors, changing customer needs/expectations, constantly evolving standards and constraints, etc. A number of studies have shown that the...
Steering Performance… the CEO’s responsibility!
Many CEOs steer their company by the lodestone of annual targets. They are judged on the basis of this very short-term horizon, which focuses on achieving shareholder value. Most of the decisions taken within the company, especially at management level, will be...