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🧩The Puzzle Nobody's Actually Solving 🧩- Fractured Operating Model

  • Writer: Ben Chamberlain
    Ben Chamberlain
  • 6 days ago
  • 2 min read

Finance has a fix. So does the PMO. So does Architecture. So does Change Management, and several other functions with a genuine stake in the outcome. Each one is even right, in isolation, their piece really would help. The problem is nobody's holding all the pieces up to the same gap at the same time, so nothing actually closes.


Cartoon of Architecture, PMO, Change Management, and Finance each holding up a puzzle piece triumphantly around a boardroom table, while the actual gap in the puzzle sits open in the middle, quietly leaking value

That's Principle 1 of the 10 Key Principles of Strategy Execution (Expose the Cost of Poor Strategy Execution) showing up in one of its most common forms. 


Part of this Principle is about forming a coalition across all the critical functions and teams to build a C-Suite level Value Case, one that earns genuine commitment to invest in the organization's Strategy Execution capability and treat it as a true C-Suite imperative. 


The goal was never to let one function's agenda rise to the top. It's to integrate and optimize the critical functions into a single, cohesive operating system, where every function's piece connects to the others by design, not by accident.


Without that coalition, every function stays right about its own piece and wrong about the whole. The result is a fractured operating model where business value doesn't get lost inside any one function, it seeps through the cracks between them, because no single function can see the whole gap, own it, or fix it alone.


The 10 Key Principles 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 from Strategy, Operations, Finance, HR, Architecture, Transformation, PMO, Delivery, and Change Management, coming together to name the real challenges holding organizations back from mastering Strategy Execution, and to share what's actually worked. This scene came directly from that conversation.


Where have you seen a function claim sole credit for fixing execution, when the real gap sat somewhere between departments, not inside any one of them? 👇 



StrategyXF Painfully Accurate Series (Sad, but True!)

This cartoon is part of Painfully Accurate, a StrategyXF series built from real 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.


 
 
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