STRATEGY

IMPLEMENTATION

Developing a strategy is not the problem. The problem is to implement it.

The majority of all strategies are not implemented.

When that happens instead of shaping tomorrow, you will find yourself in the same marketplace as your competitors. With the lowest price as the only thing that differentiates your business from your competitors.

If you want to break the pattern, you need to do something new.

Emotions prevents strategy implementation

Nobody develops a strategy with the intent of not implementing it.

When it happens anyway, you must look for the unconscious causes if you want to understand what prevents you from executing your plan.

My experience is that these unconscious causes are more about emotions than about reason.

My 5 beliefs on how to implement your strategy

1. Build Personal Driving Force

2. Build Competitive Edge

3. Build Strategy Structure

4. Build Action plan the heart and soul of your strategy

5. Build Natural Born Leadership

1. Build personal driving force

Strategy is not about your business. It’s about you.

How will it affect you personally, when you implement your strategy and accomplish your business mission?

Answer this question, and you will find your personal driving force that will motivate you to implement your strategy.

2. Build Competitive edge

If you don’t have competitive edge, don’t compete.

Understand your customers’ needs better than your competitors does. Transform this understanding into solutions that make your customers prefer doing business with you.

Strive to ensure this competitive edge, and you will stay ahead of your competitors.

3. Build Strategy structure

Not everybody have to do everything at the same time.

When you find your competitive edge, you know which plans are essential to implement.

Decide how to structure and organize the implementation of these plans, and you will have your “strategy tree.” It ensures the best results with the least effort.

4. Build Action plan The Heart and Soul of your Strategy

Comply with agreements and build trust and cooperation

If you want your goals to be realistic, you need to know and plan which actions to implement.

An action plan is a set of agreements between people, telling you who is going to do what when.

The plan is the heart and soul of your strategy.

5. Build Natural Born Leadership

Natural Born Leaders implement their plans

Follow up is essential if you want to learn how to implement your strategy.

Listen and understand the obstacles if agreements of the action plan are not met, and you will find the leadership competencies that you need to build.

Develop your natural born leadership competencies. They will implement your plan.

You need a New Mindset, if you want to implement your plan

Don’t think that you have to be perfect. Implementing a strategy is a learning process.
Don’t think that you have to be able to predict the future. Just comply with the agreements of the action plan.
Don’t think that there is a rational explanation for everything. Look for the irrational causes when your implementation gets stuck.
Don’t think that strategy implementation is a walk in the park. Have the courage to do what makes sense when things get unpleasant.
Don’t think that you can’t make a difference. Your willpower to implement your strategy will get the job done.