Services - Strategic Execution/Implementation Tools

Implementation Process Flow and Outputs

• Educating and Organizing for Implementation

  • Context/Perspective – Recognizing the big picture at three essential levels: Strategic (directional), Organizational (cultural/ people), and Operational (structural/processes)

  • Implementation Considerations – Highlighting issues, barriers, critical success factors for effective strategic execution

  • Integration and Interdependencies – Mapping the strategic components, among and between themselves, to find areas of synergy, dependency and overlap

  • Infrastructure Assessment – Determine overall support of change, ability to execute and ultimate sustainability

  • Resource Allocation – Examining time, money and people for effective execution and budgeting, plus the purposeful balance of current and new work (transition management)

  • Readiness Assessment/Alignment – Identifying areas of strategic, organizational and operational strengths to leverage and weaknesses to shore up

  • Business Examination – Analyzing and assessing, but not limited to, Products/Programs/Services, Constituencies and/or Competitors

•  Planning for Implementation/Execution

  • Action Plan – The backbone/roadmap for ultimately translating, operationalizing and integrating the strategy into the fabric of the organization. It outlines the big picture phases and steps (both linear and concurrent)

  • Timeline/Milestones – The specifics to the Action Plan, with desired guideposts of accomplishments over time, plus designated early wins

  • Work Structure – The configuration, roles and expectations of transition leadership, management and teams

  • Communications Plan – A proactive plan for on-going internal and external communication for progress and results