🏀 Strategy Execution Is A Team Sport 🏆 - C-Suite Accountability for Strategy Execution
Hand a C-Suite member the accountability for improving the organization's Strategy Execution capability, and watch the instinct kick in.
They prioritize their own team. Its not selfishness, its muscle memory. A CFO leans on FP&A. A COO leans on Operations. A CSO leans on Strategy. It's the point guard who keeps passing to the teammate he's known longest, while the rest of the team stands wide open on the court, waving their arms like they're trying to land a plane.
The CFO in our cartoon is just the example. The same thing happens with a CSO, COO, CIO, or a dedicated Strategy Execution / Transformation leader.
Whoever holds the seat brings an instinct from the function they grew up in, and that function quietly gets every pass. No single function can carry this alone, including the owner's home team. That's the point of Principle 2 of the 10 Key Principles of Strategy Execution, Establish an Enterprise Function to Orchestrate Strategy Execution.
Uniting the Village means creating a cohesive Strategy Execution operating system that integrates Strategic Portfolio Management, Architecture and Op Model Design, FP&A, Project Execution, Change Management, and HR. It isn't one functions agenda raised to the top. Its one connected operating system that lines up all activity with strategy and maximizes and accelerates business value.
It takes a village. 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦
Strategy Execution is a team sport. 🏆
The 10 Key Principles of Strategy Execution aren't something we came up with on our own. They're being defined in the open by the StrategyXF community, multi-disciplinary leaders and practitioners across Strategy, Operations, Finance, HR, Architecture, Transformation, PMO, Delivery, and Change Management, naming the real challenges holding organizations back and sharing what's actually worked.
Whoever owns Strategy Execution in your organization, who is getting all the passes, and who is standing wide open?👇Â
StrategyXF Painfully Accurate Series (Sad, but True!)
This cartoon is part of Painfully Accurate, a StrategyXF series built from real Strategy Execution challenges our members have actually lived through, laughed about, and found a way past.
Every scene started as something a leader or practitioner described, not a hypothetical, an actual moment somebody in this community said out loud and everyone else in the room recognized instantly. Sad but true, every one of them, and every one of them survivable.
If any of this feels a little too familiar, you're exactly who this community was built for. Join StrategyXF and help us turn these shared war stories into the practical, personalized strategies that finally put them behind us.
