Making Strategy Work

Now Extensively Updated--The Most Complete Roadmap and Process Model for Executing on Strategy

Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. By now, most executives and managers realize that. Unfortunately, most organizations are still far better at developing strategy than at executing it. In Making Strategy Work, Second Edition, leading consultant and Wharton professor Lawrence Hrebiniak offers todays most comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy work in the real world.

Now fully updated, this Second Edition reflects new research at Wharton and beyond, and extensive additional input from managers confronting and solving execution-related problems. In an expanded applications section, Hrebiniak shows how to apply his model to a wide range of challenging, real-world situations. This edition offers new chapters with deeper analysis of strategy execution in global environments, and of linking project management with strategy. Responding to many requests, Hrebiniak has also added an entirely new chapter on service organizations.

This book sheds powerful new light on why businesses fail to deliver on even their most promising strategies. Hrebiniaks complete execution roadmap encompasses organizational structure, coordination, information sharing, incentives, controls, change management, culture, the role of power and influence, and much more.

Strengthening the linkages between planning and execution
  Getting planners and doers involved in strategy execution
Building the capabilities and culture youll need to execute
  Aligning organizational skills, resources, and culture around your strategies
Getting structure right
  Balancing centralization and decentralization to optimize the benefits of each, while achieving effective coordination or integration
Defining a logical flow of execution decisions and actions
  Making sure the right tasks get done at the right time
Widening the scope of successful execution
  Overcoming unique obstacles to execution in M&A, global markets, and service organizations