Find out why strategies fail and learn how to solve the strategic conflict
This white paper will show you a new paradigm on how to link strategy planning, strategy execution, and project management.
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What’s inside for you?
Why strategy failure is increasing - and how it can be prevented?
Gap between plans and execution
While changes have resulted in improvements to organizational operations over the last 100 years, there is still a significant gap between companies’ strategic plans and the execution of them.
Run or change the business?
Companies find it difficult to solve the strategic conflict: Run the Business versus Change the Business—the link between strategy planning, strategy execution, and project management.
SEM is the new norm
Some means to keep strategy on track are structural. But there is also a role here for technology. The new norm is called Strategy Execution Management (SEM).
A digital solution
A digital platform can engage the whole organization in executing the strategy and tell you exactly what is going on at any given moment to help you stay on course.
What to expect from the Guide?
The Why Most Strategies Die will explain a new paradigm on how to link strategy planning, strategy execution and project management. Written by experts in Strategy this content is presented here in an easy-to-read and well-structured that makes it easy to use for executing your own strategy.
How to link your projects with your strategy?
Companies are running more and more projects, but they lack a basic understanding of how to link them with their overall strategy.
How to monitor and follow up your strategy?
There seems to be a widespread failure to acknowledge that, as with any other business function, strategy requires an operational backend to monitor and follow up, just as financial and operational activities do.
How to solve strategic conflits?
The White Paper describes how to solve the strategic conflict: Run the Business versus Change the Business—the link between strategy planning, strategy execution, and project management.
How a quick, sound decision-making and a clear communication can improve your strategy?
Quick, sound decision-making and clear communication are achievable even during strategy execution. They only require some fundamental principles that we tend to forget in our day-to-day activities. It is not complicated, and by reading the White Paper you will be guided step by step.
Do you really take your strategy seriously?
Hand on heart, do you really take the management and execution of your strategy as seriously as your financial management? If the answer is no... The SEM Guide will help you rethink the way you have implemented strategies in the past. Your future efforts will have a much higher success rate.
The Authors
Antonio Rodriguez
Global Head of PMO at GSK, Professor
Author of the Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook, the featured HBR article The Project Economy Has Arrived, and four other books. Antonio is the creator of the Project Economy and the Project Manifesto. His research and global impact on modern management earned him recognition from Thinkers50. Fellow and Former Chairman of the Project Management Institute, he is the founder of Projects&Co and co-founder of the Strategy Implementation Institute. He is also a member of Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches.
Bjarni Snæbjörn Jónsson
CSO and Co-founder of DecideAct
CSO and Co-founder of DecideAct, Management consultant and social entrepreneur. Bjarni focuses primarily on large-scale human system change and evolution. Bjarni has a Cand Oecon degree from the University of Iceland, and an MBA from University of Michigan Ross School of Business and finished a doctoral thesis in June 2013 at the Adizes Graduate School in California. Together with Flemming Videriksen, he has spent the past ten years mapping how to create the optimal infrastructure for successful implementation of strategies.
Flemming Videriksen
CEO and Co-founder of DecideAct
One of the world's leading experts in Strategy Execution Management and CEO & co-founder of DecideAct, a groundbreaking SaaS solution that moves old-school manual strategy execution to a modern digital platform. Working with strategy design, implementation, and cultural change for nearly three decades in organizations worldwide, Flemming has been a trusted strategic advisor and executive coach for top global business and organization leaders. Flemming is committed to modernizing strategic leadership with the help of technology. With this professional emphasis, he has spent the past ten years mapping how to create the optimal infrastructure for successful strategy implementation, and he is the author and co-author of several excellent books and publications on the subject.