How to Plan and Execute Strategy

1. Planning and executing strategy

2. Manage strategically

3. Follow the logic

4. Assess your readiness

5. Plan to plan

6. Define your business

7. Assess your situation

8. Understand your model

9. Know your market

10. Assess the terrain

11. Understand opportunities and threats

12. Set feasible goals

13. Strategize for goals

14. Set priorities

15. Pursue your purpose

16. Follow your mission

17. Write the business plan

18. Write the annual plan

19. Get the right people

20. Obtain commitment

21. Align with strategy

22. Work across functions

23. Execute with discipline

24. Monitor and improve

25. Learn, change, institutionalize

Strengthen your competitive advantage with a flawless corporate strategy

How to Plan and Execute Strategy provides you with 24 practical steps for creating, implementing, and managing market-defining, growth-driving strategies. Encompassing every stage of the strategic process, this tactic-filled handbook shares exactly what you need to know in order to:

Define your businesses Know your market Understand your opportunities and threatsSet feasible goals and objectivesCreate the strategies to achieve your objectivesIdentify and set prioritiesWrite your business planGet the right peopleCommunicate the strategy and obtain commitmentIntegrate across functionsExecute with disciplineMonitor results, evaluate, and react

Every successful company has benefited from an excellent corporate strategy. With the proven techniques in this portable, hands-on guide, your business will reap the same rewards. How to Plan and Execute Strategy shows how to get a leg up on your competition and sustain your lead for the long run.