Strategie = Executie
Why proven methods are preferred in strategy execution
How do you know which approach to choose for a new initiative? There is nothing wrong with common sense, but specialist methods lead much faster to real breakthroughs, innovation and a strengthening of distinctiveness. Using proven methods and expertise simply saves time
Every issue requires the right specialist method. You don’t put a plaster on a broken arm. An issue about operational excellence in the supply chain simply requires a different approach, with different specialist knowledge, than a sales effectiveness issue.
You can purchase expertise from advisors, but that does not absolve you of the obligation to have basic methodologies and specialist knowledge of the most common issues in-house. The Business Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Peigneur offers a format of a very practical and successful method for innovating business models. But of course there is more expertise that you need to master these days. Think of the Lean Startup Method of Eric Ries and the Change by Design thinking of Tom Brown and others.
16 meaningful timeless models for strategy analysis and determination here
The 10 principles of five common issues here
1. The 10 main principles governing sales
2. The 10 principles of Lean
3. The 10 Principles of Post-Merger Integration and Holding Synergy
4. The 10 principles of Agile structure and governance (S&G)
Remember that a methodology or tool is a means, not an end. If all goes well, methods and tools contain specialist and proven knowledge and experience. Think carefully about what you choose and why, and even which combinations you choose. Professionals can seriously disagree about the pros and cons of the Lean Startup Method versus Change by Design thinking. The proponents of the Lean Startup Method emphasize that there is no better way of innovating than with guidance based on so-called religious assumptions, ‘the leaps of faith’. This creates a prototype, which is further developed from there through validated learning, with short cycles of iterations on the prototype determined by direct customer feedback. The proponents of design thinking will emphasize that such a clinical system misses real breakthroughs and creative solutions. Imagination, unlike knowledge, is not limited and gives room for progress and evolution, is their contention. Perhaps it is smartest to combine the two methods.
Your own innovative power and originality must be leading. But these should be helped along by an analysis of other innovations. Every organization should know its way around new business and revenue models, in its own sector and beyond. In Strategy = Execution I have included a complete sample of more than fifty examples of important innovations.
You can also fall back on analysis methods and skills in this phase. They help you work quickly and effectively, according to the credo ‘thoroughly where necessary, practical and fast where possible’. Because analyzes for the sake of analyzes are pointless. Sensitivity analysis 13c variant 2 adds nothing compared to number 4 and only leads to paralysis and cramping.
In Figure 1, with an overview of the types of issues, insights and analyzes and methodologies, I have collected examples of common analyses. Avoid false accuracy and analyze the soft side integrally with a hard analysis. You can also use the SECA.NU tool, which highlights the execution ability on the soft side.
Strategy = Execution. Improve, Renew and Innovate Faster
How can organizations make strategy execution their number one priority? And improve, renew and innovate faster? This I describe in my book Strategy = Execution. Strategy = execution is based on the research that Turner started years ago into the success factors of strategy execution and innovation. We interviewed 60 directors and professionals and analyzed more than 75 cases, 300 relevant books and articles.
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