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MAN4900F
CH 10
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In devising an action agenda to implement and execute a new or different strategy, the place for managers to start is with | a probing assessment of what the organization must do differently and better to carry out the strategy successfully. |
a probing assessment of what the organization must do differently and better to carry out the strategy successfully. | poor execution of the strategy. |
Good strategy execution requires: | a team effort with all managers having strategy executing responsibility in their area of authority, and making all employees active participants in the strategy execution process. |
Good strategy execution requires which of the following? | Putting those resources and capabilities into place, strengthening them as needed, and then modifying them as market conditions evolve. |
The two best signs of good strategy execution are | whether the company is meeting or beating its performance targets and whether they are performing value chain activities in a manner that is conducive to company wide operating excellence |
The most important leadership trait in the strategy execution process is | strong communication skills (both written and verbal) covering motivating intent |
What makes the managerial task of executing strategy so challenging and demanding is | the demanding people-management skills required, the resistance to change that has to be overcome, and the perseverance necessary to get a variety of initiatives launched and kept moving along. |
Ultimate responsibility for seeing that strategy is executed successfully primarily falls upon the shoulders of | a company's chief executive officer, its chief operating officer, and the heads of major units (business divisions, functional departments, and key operating units). |
The overriding aim in building a management team should be to | assemble a critical mass of talented managers who can function as agents of change, work well together as a team, and produce organizational results that are dramatically better than what one or two star managers acting individually can achieve. |
The capability-building process | requires first developing the ability to do something, however imperfectly or inefficiently; second, translating this ability into a competence by learning to do the activity consistently well and at an acceptable cost; and then continuing to polish and r |
Core competencies and competitive capabilities | re usually bundles of skills and know-how that most often grow out of the combined efforts of cross-functional work groups and departments performing complementary activities at different locations in a firm's value chain. |