strategy execution heroes - the new leaders
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My slides from the Annual CrossKnowledge event at the TiasNimbas business school in the Netherlands.TRANSCRIPT
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The New Leaders
Annual ConferenceJeroen De Flander
TiasNimbas Tilburg, 29 March 2011
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1. What is strategic innovation & strategy execution?
2. What’s the problem?
3. Why do you need Strategy Execution Heroes?
4. HR needs to join the battle against the strategy tourists
“Don’t measure performance by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished within your capabilities.”
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A process?
A philosophy? A culture?
A tool? A management style?
A mystery?
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What’s the biggest car-renting company in the world?
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Within the same industry, Enterprise combines activities in the value chain in a different way to provide benefits to a different customer segment
Airports
Travel Agents
Airport Parking lots
Airport
Centralised
Business & pleasure travelers
Mainly new
high
Downtown
Mechanics & insurance
Home pick-up
Home
Decentralised
Car replacement
High average age
Low
Location
Marketing
Delivery
Drop off
Organisation
Segment
Age cars
Fee
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_ What’s the industry we want to play in?_ Overall competitive rules?_ Industry trends?
_ Competitive advantage resides in the value chain_ Redefine ‘the who’ and ‘the how’ in a certain industry_ A business model = combination of choices within the value
chain to get and maintain this advantage
_ Ability to find, grow and exploit competitive advantage
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1. Did you know that companies loose between 40 to 60% of their strategy during implementation?Harvard Business Review
2. Do I know exactly where my company, department or team is losing performance?
3. What can I do to close the execution gap?
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”
- Sir Winston Churchill
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1. Strategy Focus
2. Strategy Communication
3. Initiative Management
4. Individual Objective Setting
5. Skilled Managers
6. Engaged People and Performance-Driven Culture
7. Performance-Related Pay
8. Support for Managers“Don’t measure performance by what you
have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished within your capabilities.”
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“Initiative management is the spot where strategy translates into practice
or remains on paper forever”
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1. Strategic initiatives: poorly staffed and budgeted
_ 49% of all strategic initiatives are poorly budgeted and staffed
_ 92% of all managers are unhappy with resource allocation
2. Strategic projects lack transparent accountabilities
_ 1 in 4 managers: responsible for key strategic projects?
_ 79% of all managers find the project accountabilities unclear
3. Mismatch between project portfolio and strategy
_ 1 in 5 projects fail to support the strategy
_ 85%: mismatch between project portfolio and strategy
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1. Strategic initiatives: poorly staffed and budgeted
_ 49% of all strategic initiatives are poorly budgeted and staffed
_ 92% of all managers are unhappy with resource allocation
2. Strategic projects lack transparent accountabilities
_ 1 in 4 managers: responsible for key strategic projects?
_ 79% of all managers find the project accountabilities unclear
3. Mismatch between project portfolio and strategy
_ 1 in 5 projects fail to support the strategy
_ 85%: mismatch between project portfolio and strategy
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1. Strategic initiatives: poorly staffed and budgeted
_ 49% of all strategic initiatives are poorly budgeted and staffed
_ 92% of all managers are unhappy with resource allocation
2. Strategic projects lack transparent accountabilities
_ 1 in 4 managers: responsible for key strategic projects?
_ 79% of all managers find the project accountabilities unclear
3. Mismatch between project portfolio and strategy
_ 1 in 5 projects fail to support the strategy
_ 85%: mismatch between project portfolio and strategy
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“Don’t tell people to be an execution hero. Rather, help them to develop the right skills and encourage them to adopt the right attitudes that lead to sound strategy execution.”
What are the skills you need?
Which attitudes create sound execution?
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“Strategy Execution isn’t something others are doing while you are working on something more important.”
“Your Strategy Execution role is part of your overallleadership role.”
“A good leader is a strategist as well as an implementer.It’s not a question of either/or.”
“Most managers find it easier to define a new strategy thanit is to implement the existing one.”
“Execution is part of your management job. It may sound boring,but nevertheless it is your job.”
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PowerPoint fanatic
Do as I say, not as I do
We need to start from scratch
I’m too important to focus on execution
From PowerPoint to practice
Actions speak louder than words
Let’s see what works
Execution is my priority
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Demystify strategy Create an simple execution frameworkBuild the right skills in the right wayDon’t assume a ‘Yes’ is always a ‘Yes’SimplifyGet rid of the strategy tourists
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_ Remember the old Martini commercial. Ideas can come from ‘Anybody, Anywhere, Anytime’.
_ Communicate the current strategy
_ Build, communicate and manage an easy strategy framework stick to it.
_ Avoid strategy ‘blah blah’ and get rid of the strategy tourists
_ Part of development program _ But more important: try it / do it. Not wait until you
are...
Demystify strategy 1
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Create a simple execution framework2
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Create a simple execution framework2
“A strategy Execution framework should be simple, easy-to-communicate and visually strong”
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1. No company-wide view on skills development
2. Too much at once
3. Assumed that senior managers meet the skills standard
4. Successful development isn’t clearly understood
5. Development starts before the process is clear
6. All efforts goes into the development of a few skills
7. Too expensive
8. Average quality trainers and coaches
Build the right skills in the right way3
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1 Define what you need and how you are going to get it
2 Manage your development portfolio
3 Design world-class learning interventions
4 Execute flawlessly
5 Set development objectives
6 Measure success
Build the right skills in the right way3
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When your employee says ‘yes’ to the strategy........what does (s)he really say?
I will make the strategy happen, no matter whator
I will work hard (effort) to implement the strategyor
I see the benefits of the strategy and will contribute to the implementationor
I don’t see the benefits but don’t want to loose my jobor
I’m against the strategy, don’t want to implement but I don’t tell it in your face
Don’t assume a ‘yes’ is always a ‘yes!’4
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_ Would you like to introduce something that worked very well in your former company?
_ Would you like that everyone implements the models you have designed?
_ Do you get a kick out of complex theoretical models?
_ Do you know what already exists?
_ Did you think about creating something completely new?
_ Have you tested it?
_ Did you decide that integration was needed?
_ Never thought about eliminating ‘dead wood’?
Simplify5
So...
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Get rid of the strategy tourists6
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Jeroen De Flander is a seasoned international Strategy Execution expert, top executive coach, seminar leader and highly regarded keynote speaker.
Jeroen has helped more than 15,000 managers in 20 countries master the necessary execution skills. His book, Strategy Execution Heroes, reached the Amazon bestseller list in 5 countries.
He is co-founder of the performance factory – a leading research, training and advisory firm which is solely focused on helping individuals and organisations increase performance through best-in-class Strategy Execution.
For several years, he was the responsible manager worldwide of the Balanced Scorecard product line for Arthur D. Little – a leading strategy consulting firm.
The 50+ companies he has advised on various strategy execution topics include Atos Worldline, AXA, Base, Bridgestone, CEMEX, GDFSuez, Honda, ING, Johnson & Johnson, Komatsu and Sony.
To book Jeroen to speak at your next event or to run a strategy execution seminar for your company, please contact him through his website /blog www.jeroen-de-flander.com, email: [email protected] or Twitter:@JeroenDeFlander
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The New Leaders