Strategy Implementation Playbook: A Step-By-Step Guide

by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, Robin Speculand

You have crafted a strategy and identified how your organization will differentiate itself from the competition. You have committed to competing in a digital and sustainable world, and you are focused on adding value to your customers, shareholders, employees and society at large.

Now you must implement your strategy.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez and Robin Speculand, co-founders of the Strategy Implementation Institute and Harvard Business Review and number one Amazon bestseller respectively, present the Institute’s body of knowledge to support leaders to succeed in implementing their strategy.

Implementation rarely goes according to plan. At the Strategy Implementation Institute, their purpose is to develop implementation professionals worldwide. Recognizing that implementations fail more often than they succeed, they wrote this Strategy Implementation Playbook to provide you the step-by-step guidance to succeed.

Why Do Leaders Need This Playbook ? This Playbook guides you to close the strategy implementation skills gap. Structured around the propriety Strategy Implementation Road Map(SIR)©, it is packed with easy-to-adopt tools, tips and techniques, external articles, references, and video links. You can use it as a reference to implement your strategy and/or as a body of knowledge for the Strategy Implementation Institute’s Professional and Fellowship courses.

Genres: Business

326 pages, Paperback

Published July 13, 2022

About the author

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is the head of Transversal Portfolio Management and in charge of the entire portfolio and project management practices at BNP Paribas Fortis. In addition to being member of the board of the London Business School Alumni in Belgium, he has been recently elected as member of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute, which is the largest association in project management with more than 800.000 members across 185 countries.

Prior of this, Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez was the head of post-merger integration at Fortis Bank, leading what was the largest takeover in the financial service history: the acquisition of ABN AMRO. Before that, he worked for 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior manager, becoming the global lead practitioner for project and change management.

The author of the book The Focused Organization (www.thefocusedorganization.com), Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez has been featured in several magazines, including PM Network®, Strategy Business Review and The Economist. He is also the author of the white paper Boosting Business Performance through Programme and Project Management, which was written after he conducted one of the first global project management maturity surveys. He is the founder of the largest LinkedIn group around strategy execution (StrateXecution) with more than 4.100 members worldwide.

Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez is a professor of project management and strategy execution for MBA students at several business schools, and is a regular keynote speaker at large international events where he speaks on the strategic value of project management; he is often voted as ‘best speaker’. Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez undertook undergraduate studies in Germany, Mexico, Italy and the United States and has a university degree in economics from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He has an MBA from London Business School and is fluent in Spanish, English, French, Dutch, Italian and German. As a hobby, Mr. Nieto-Rodriguez teaches business students and convinces senior leaders about the value of project management, positioning project management as a key management concept for executing organizations strategies.