Execution

Operational execution represents the day-to-day realization of the organization’s business strategy; the physical manifestation of leadership’s decisions regarding what the organization will do and how those activities will be performed. To achieve real success, however, these activities must be implemented efficiently and effectively.
 
 
StrategyDriven's Execution ForumsEfficient, effective execution minimizes operational costs thereby enhancing bottom line results. Efficient execution occurs when activities performed use the least amount of financial, personnel, material, equipment, and time resources possible. Effective execution occurs when the activities performed most directly support achievement of the organization’s goals and those activities not directly supporting goal achievement are minimized and, when possible, eliminated.

Based on materials developed by StrategyDriven’s business strategy execution consulting group, the Execution forums are dedicated to discussing the principles of effective and efficient day-to-day implementation of the business’s strategy within the following topical areas:

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Market

The shape, size, color, and texture of the market is continually changing. To be successful, leaders must understand the market, anticipate its changes, and respond accordingly.
 
 
Market ForumsBut the market is complex, comprised of multiple overlapping environments. Shaping this aggregated external environment are the economic, technological, political, and sociocultural forces exerted by shareholders, customers, competitors, government entities, suppliers, employees and labor unions, trade associations, creditors, and special interest groups. The highly interrelated nature of these environments means that a change in one will have a rippling impact across all of the others. Successful leaders remain ever vigilant to these changes and exert the flexibility necessary to bend these changes into opportunities while remaining faithful to their organization’s overall vision, mission, values, and goals.

Materials in the Market forum are dedicated to discussing the principles of successful marketplace interactions within the following topical areas:

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Management

Managers translate the organization’s vision through their decisions, standards, and interactions with employees; ultimately determining what, how, and when work gets done.

Strategy

A business’s overall strategy defines its purpose for being, what it will do to achieve that purpose, and how it will perform these tasks. The long-term strategy begins with the organization’s vision, mission, and goals as codified within a long-range (5 – 10 year) strategic plan. Annual business plans translate the long-term strategy into projects, initiatives, and milestone goals that are more tangible to employees and for which distinct daily activities can be planned.

Diversity and Inclusion Tool – Cost of Employee Distraction

The cost of employee distraction resulting from acts of incivility is staggering and yet goes largely unrecognized. There is no financial statement line item, no general ledger entry, and no budget explicitly set aside for this expense that can cost an evenly modestly sized company hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.

Using the StrategyDriven Cost of Employee Distraction nomographs and method outlined here, organization leaders can gain a better appreciation for the direct monetary cost associated with employees worrying about and avoiding those committing acts of incivility and begin to better value their diversity and inclusion initiatives.


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