Strategic Implementation And Decision Making: A Case Study

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Sinha (2010) appears to have empirically established some kind of a planning-performance linkage. He examined 1087 decisions made by 129 Fortune 500 firms between 1992 and 1996. Consequently, he concluded that characteristics of the decisions accounted for 15 percent of the variance in data and therefore should be regarded as important determinants of the contribution strategic plans make to decision making. 1.1.2 Implementing Strategic Plans Pearce and Robinson (2009) stated that strategic implementation is the process through which a set of agreed work philosophies are translated into functional and operational targets. Kotter and Best (2006) support this point by stating that implementation addresses who, where, when and how, and it is thus the tactic that drives the strategy of the company. Strategic plan implementation follows a six step process namely, envision, activate, install, ensure, and recognize. …show more content…

Implementation involves activities that effectively put the plan to work. Implementation of the tactic drives the strategy of the company. Strategy implementation is likely to be successful when congruence is achieved between several elements crucial to this process. This may be grouped into two groups of structure and process elements. Structure defines the configuration of a company showing the relationships that exists between the various parts of the company. The process element includes leadership, culture, resources and other administrative procedures. The structure of the company should be compatible with the chosen strategy. If there is incongruence, adjustment will be necessary either for the structure or for the strategy itself. Chandler (2002) points out that while structure follows strategy, there is also evidence that structure influences strategy in certain

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