Chapter 9
Implementing Strategy Deployment
In This Chapter
Getting the deployment underway
Keeping sight of the daily operational issues
Reviewing and reporting your progress
Understanding the need for countermeasures
In Chapter 8, we looked at planning for strategy deployment (SD). This chapter focuses on its implementation and adoption by the organisation. Once underway, it’s important to review and maintain progress using countermeasures to get back on track should things slip.
Starting SD Implementation
The strategy deployment process is led by senior leadership and has two basic components, as illustrated in Figure 9-1. The first is an annual planning process, which identifies the focus areas for improvement during the next 12 months, determines the pace of improvement needed, and assesses the human resource support required to meet the objectives. The catchball process (described in Chapter 8) comes into play here, and focus areas are deployed down to the point of impact where the actual process improvement and related action plans are created to achieve a particular critical ...
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