Closing the Strategy-Execution gap

In March 2010, Harvard Business Review surveyed

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1,075 readers about strategy and execution in their organizations.
Only 37% said their companies are ‘‘very good’’ or ‘‘excellent’’ at execution.

What is it that keeps us from having a sustainable process for executing our strategy?
On the one hand you have your strategic objectives, including:

• Profitable Revenue Growth
• Customer Success
• Operational Efficiency
• Employee Engagement
• Cash cycle velocity
• And so on.

On the other hand you have available resources at your disposal:

• Capital
• Assets
• Customers Read more of this post