Strategy Execution Mapping Workshops
A proven way to turn the complex and often inaccessible strategic plan into an interactive, visual roadmap for the plan’s successful execution
Without a strategy execution map, many companies expend endless hours planning a strategy, then falter at deploying, communicating, and executing it properly.
A good strategy execution map is:
- A simple, visual depiction of key parts of current strategic plan
- A way of grouping your highest-level objectives by areas, or perspectives
- Composed of objectives that indicate your customer’s desired outcomes and their relationships to your organization’s objectives, operations, and project-based work
- An explanation of cause-and-effect relationships
IPS Strategy Execution Mapping Workshops can run between a half day and three days, depending upon the size of the organization, its complexity, and scope of issues to be addressed.
Workshop Outcomes
The following represent typical results from a Strategy Execution Mapping Workshop:
- Group buy-in - The participating team has a full understanding of how the organization’s project-based work maps to supporting the organization’s strategies.
- Comprehensible strategy map - The team has a full appreciation for how all work is connected to specific strategies and objectives.
- Improved collaboration - The team has experienced the power of collaborative planning and the processes that are used, setting an example for enhanced understanding and performance of the team as a whole.
- Unique insights and synergy - Additional outcomes specific to a particular organization.
IPS Strategy Execution Mapping Workshop Outputs
Strategy Execution Mapping Workshops typically produce the following outputs:
- Initial strategy execution map(s) for the organization, represented graphically
- Detailed tables showing linkages among strategies, programs, and projects
- Charts, time lines, and other materials generated during the course of the workshop; these vary according to the duration and scope of the workshop
Key Areas Covered
Although the agenda is customized for each organization, the following is representative of the areas covered during a Strategy Execution Mapping Workshop.
Workshop overview
- Structure
- Processes
- Ground rules
Context
- The Strategic Execution Framework (SEF)
- Culture
- Structure
- Strategy - relationship to current/planned strategies
Strategy execution planning process
- Overview
- How this workshop fits into this
What is a “strategy execution map"?
- Rationale
- Characteristics
- Multiple perspectives
Developing the strategy execution map
- Structure
- Process to develop
- Customer outcomes
- Competitive objectives
- Core objectives (with associated goals and metrics)
- Execution capabilities
- Critical activities (programs and projects) supporting these outcomes and objectives
- Key resources that support the critical activities
Next steps
- Issues to address
- Refining the strategy execution map
- Communicating the strategy execution map
Contact us today to learn more about how IPS can help you increase the productivity and value creation of an enterprise through strategy execution (process) and human performance (people) consulting.
