Strategy Execution: Translating Strategy Into Action in Complex Organizations

by Andrew MacLennan

Strategy execution is one of the most important and exciting topics in management. Implementing strategy in today's complex organizations is an enormous challenge but one that all leaders must tackle. This lively book is an essential guide to strategy execution for practicing managers and those in advanced management education. It combines the rigour of advanced research with the accessibility of practical experience and application to lead readers through the subject.Drawing together existing knowledge and reporting findings from his own research, Andrew MacLennan brings this often neglected topic sharply into focus. After introducing and defining strategy execution, the book presents a series of systematic frameworks to help managers and common strategy execution barriers and diagnose performance problems in particular situationstranslate conceptual strategies into concrete activitiesalign emergent activities and projects with strategic objectivessupport critical activities by aligning organizational designs and systemsStrategy Execution is an insightful, engaging and practical book. The models are supplemented throughout with real world examples, summaries of key issues and signposts to further readings. It is a comprehensive, easy to use book offering students and practitioners a systematic approach to strategy implementation.

249 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2010

About the author

Dr Andrew MacLennan is an affiliate faculty member at London Business School and Duke Corporate Education, a consultant, researcher & leading strategy execution expert. He conducted the largest study ever undertaken in the field.

At LBS, with Prof Costas Markides, he designed and teaches the Strategy Execution course on the school's MBA

Reviews

[Aaron Herrera · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a very useful and interesting book, I would say it's written for MBA students and higher degrees.
It is full of technical terminology, but has real-life examples as well. As he mentions in it, there's almost nothing written about strategy execution but hundreds of strategic planning books everywhere.