Converting your Strategy into a Blueprint for Action 03/01 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio

Join us on March 1, 2012 at 11 am EST for a new episode of Strategies for Change:

Converting your Strategy into a Blueprint for Action 03/01 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio.

In this episode, we discuss a simple proven approach to convert your strategic decisions into a blueprint for action rapidly. This is a critical step because for a strategy to be implemented, it needs to be understood by those that are to implement it. Why certain choices of direction have been made must be clear.  Yet if you leave it at that, most people will have a hard time reconciling how to get from where they are to where you want them to be. The high ideas of strategy will die on the “messy” realities of everyday issues. For everything to come together, the high level strategy has to be articulated into a blueprint for action drawn with the participations of implementers. The blueprint will identify initiatives in detail: what, by whom, when, milestones, etc. and check those tasks against the organization’s ability to deliver them with existing capacities.

Why Could You Possibly Need a Strategy?

Why Could You Possibly Need a Strategy 02/17 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio.

Join us as we explore what a well conceived strategy can do for any organization whether business, agency, or NGO. From its conception to its implementation, what gives impetus to a strategy is whether participants are fully engaged with it. A strategy cannot simply be a document that people read for information, it has to be a common agreement that makes it clear to all involved what the ultimate objective is, what each one will do to contribute toward that outcome in their day to day decisions. As Michael Porter, the Harvard University strategy professor, said: “The #1 purpose of strategy is alignment.”