MGNM571
Corporate Strategy &
Entrepreneurship-I
RAJEEV GUPTA
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1 You will be able to define the nature of
strategic Implementation.
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Strategic Management Process
Environmental Strategy
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Scanning Formulation
Conceptual overview
The Environment - GOAL
Implementation Levers:
“Threats & Opportunities”
Organization structure
Systems and processes
People and rewards
Management’s values & Strategic Leadership:
STRATEGY
attitude toward risk
Lever and resource
allocation decisions
Develop support among
stakeholders
Organization’s resources
and capabilities -
“Strengths & Weaknesses” Performance
Strategic Management Process
Environmental Strategy Strategy Evaluation &
Scanning Formulation Implementation Control
Strategies by themselves do not lead to action, they in a sense, a
statement of Intent.
Strategy Implementation
• It concerns the managerial exercise of putting a freshly chosen
strategy into place.
• Implementation tasks are meant to realise the intent.
• “Making strategy work is more difficult than the task of strategy
making”
• By Lawrence G. Herbiniak
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Why Strategies Fail
• There are three reasons strategy fails to execute.
• They are:
1. Company initiatives are not aligned with strategy
2. Company processes are not aligned with strategy
3. Employees and stakeholder fail to engage
Characteristics of Strategy Implementation
• Action orientation
• Comprehensive in scope
• Demanding varied skills
• Wide-ranging involvement
• Integrated process
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Barriers to Strategy Implementation
• An inability to manage change
• Poor or vague strategy
• Not having guidelines or a model to guide implementation efforts
• Poor or inadequate information sharing
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Interrelationship of Formulation & Implementation
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• A generation ago, a “Kodak moment” meant something that was worth saving and
savoring. Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns
executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments
encroach on their market.
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THANK YOU
RAJEEV GUPTA
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