Implement or Die: Getting Your Strategy to Work for You

by Mike Shorten

Overview

Strategy is core to an organization's success, yet 67% of strategies fail to be implemented. Statistics show that 50% of new businesses fail in their first five years. Could failure to implement strategy successfully be a key cause of business failure? The good news is that most organizations that implement their strategy successfully realize a positive financial outcome.

 

So how do you improve your business through implementing your strategy successfully? The solutions that this book provides are tailored around a systematic, action-oriented approach to improving the performance of your business through successful strategy implementation. It takes you through a process of defining strategies and tactics by reviewing your current business practices against best practice. It will help you to define what you need to do to change for the better and will guide you through the pitfalls that will come your way. This is done in a simple, easy-to-implement way by providing you with the key concepts behind each of the management models together with the actions needed for implementation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165619755
Publisher:	Mike Shorten
Publication date:	11/23/2021
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Mike Shorten has more than thirty-five years of formal consulting experience across various industries, including research and development, agriculture, wholesale and distribution, services, training, mining, manufacturing, tourism, electricity generation, and the public sector. He has led multiple projects focusing on strategy development and execution, target operating model definition, business process engineering and enterprise project management. He has worked with businesses across the size spectrum, from SMMEs to large listed corporations and government entities.Mike has worked for international consultancies and has a realistic view of where value can and cannot be added to a client's business. Complex solutions often end in failure. His business philosophy is to simplify.His primary strengths are in helping organizations define and implement strategies. This entails identifying problems or opportunities, facilitating strategy definition, defining operating models, determining actions to implement strategies, and in the implementation thereof. His passion lies in defining solutions to problems and then turning these solutions into methodologies.