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Teaching Chapter 5 – Strategy Execution

Learning Objectives
LO 05-01. Identify and describe the basic elements of strategy execution.
LO 05-02. Explain the relationships between resources and capabilities.
LO 05-03. Apply the Value Chain and Activity System frameworks.
LO 05-04. Summarize the organizational dimensions of capability development and explain how
they are guided by and determine a firm’s Value minus Cost position.
LO 05-05. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of different types of organizational
structures and how they affect capability development.
LO 05-06. Explain the roles of culture and learning in strategy execution.

Topics Covered in this document:

1. Overview
2. Case Recommendations
3. Teaching tips
4. Exercises and links to Video resources

1. Overview

This content is essential. It teaches how the firm develops and maintains the resources and
capabilities that determine its value and cost drivers. Students need to understand the

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importance of motivating tasks in terms of their contribution to competitive advantage. If the
firm is to improve its performance, which is what strategic management is about, then linking
activities to the firm’s market position is crucial.

We start with discussing what strategy execution is and what it is not. For instance, strategy
execution is not about strategy development, strategic planning or luck. Strategic planning (see
Ch. 6) articulates a firm’s strategy and the programs to implement it whereas strategy
execution is the day-to-day substance of strategy; it involves developing and maintaining a
firm’s resources and capabilities to support Value, Cost or both.

Since planning is clearly a critical strategic task in many firms and brings together the points
made throughout the book, the subsequent chapter (Ch. 6) presents standard planning tools
and shows how the principles of execution discussed in Ch. 5 are necessary content for an
effective plan. We often assign the planning chapter with the chapter on Execution when
teaching cases on turnaround (e.g., Siemens Medical Solutions).

We begin the execution session by revisiting the differences between resources and
capabilities, highlighting their definitions and characteristics, and arguing that they are
developed and protected differently. Makadok’s model is especially valuable here (see the
sidebar), since his analysis shows how complementary resources, forecasting capabilities and
the link between capabilities and resources have an effect on profitability. Students, who have
typically had a core course or more in finance when they take strategy, can appreciate how
Makadok sets up his arguments and reaches his outcomes.

Next, we use the value chain and activity system concepts to help students gain a stronger
understanding of the differences between resources and capabilities. In our courses, the value
chain concept is used in multiple ways: specifically to show how firms compete differently in
the same industry and how business units within a multi-business firm can share resources and
capabilities. So introducing the framework here is very useful. Activity systems are a more
recent construal of how firms are organized. Siggelkow’s picture of Vanguard’s system is useful
because: 1) it is focused on achieving low costs while providing a targeted kind of value to
customers, and 2) it has a high degree of integration which leads to a later discussion of
consistency and fit. At this point, it is again important to emphasize the link between tasks and
activities and achieving and defending the firm’s market position. Figure 5.3 helps to show how
this bridge is conceived. This figure also makes clear that both resource complementarity (as in
Makadok’s model) and improvement in capabilities through innovation in activities are integral
parts of the strategy execution framework. The resource portfolio of the firm can be modified
as opportunities arise, increasing complementarities and therefore the potential for higher
value or lower cost. Correspondingly, as the firm invests in new processes, capabilities are
enhanced.

At this point, the focus on resources becomes secondary to capabilities. The question arises,
how are capabilities built? How can we understand their development? The four organizational

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dimensions of capability address these questions. The dimensions cover the crucial topics of fit,
control systems, incentives and culture, all of which students can appreciate without difficulty.

We begin by distinguishing complementarity and consistency. Two or more resources are

complementary when they produce a more effective outcome together than they produce
independently whereas activities are consistent when their contributions to the firm’s strategy
do not conflict, even if they do not reinforce each other. We draw on the chapter callout on
Channel Complementarity to illustrate the concept of complementarity.

The discussion of consistency/fit can begin by returning to the Vanguard diagram. There are
almost no links between elements that do not support the firm’s market position. Importantly,
this process could not be effective without John Bogle’s target market position. So, consistent
activity systems contribute to performance only when they lead to higher value at lower cost.
Bogle’s vision emphasized cost reduction.

Moving to control and coordination systems leads to a discussion of the classic forms of
organizing - here restricted to a single business, so the product structure is missing. We employ
Galbraith’s original framework since it synthesizes earlier work and motivates subsequent work.
The chapter repeats and expands Galbraith’s arguments for the advantages and disadvantages
of each organizational form; the slide deck highlights the classic tension between knowledge
specialization and knowledge integration. It is useful to tie these arguments again to the
capabilities that underlie value and cost drivers. An easy example concerns the development of
capabilities in technology development, assuming that technology is an important value driver:
a firm with a functional structure containing centralized R & D would clearly have an advantage
here, given benefits to aggregation in this activity.

The next organizational dimension is incentives. The Hall framework is very useful here. His
approach differentiates three types of problem - controllability, alignment and
interdependence – and relates them to two dilemmas – noise and distortion. There is no
perfect system since noise and distortion are substitutes in the sense that any incentive system
makes a tradeoff between them. The piece rate system at Lincoln Electric has developed over
time to overcome this difficulty. However, the rigidity of the solution has caused problems for
the company – a point that we like to make, linking back to the concept of core rigidity in the
Chapter Four. For instructors interested in using very brief video clips in class, a two minute clip
from the “I love Lucy” show where Lucy and Ethel work on a candy factory line might be used to
introduce or illustrate the piece rate concept (see the Video resources section of this
document).

The last organizational dimension is people and culture. The literature on culture is large but its
tie to strategy is weak. Therefore we like to use Kreps’s argument, building on Schelling, that
culture induces common focal points for decision-making. To make the link to strategy
execution, these focal points should be aligned with improving capabilities that in turn improve
the firm’s market position. Most adherents of the value of culture, for example as it has been
applied at Southwest Airlines, tend to make arguments like this. As for people, we emphasize

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single and double loop learning from Argyris and Schon. It is difficult to say much here without
turning to a discussion of strategic human resources, an important topic that is beyond the
scope of the course. For those teaching a capstone type strategy course, this presents an
excellent opportunity for reinforcing content students learned in their HR or OB core courses.

The chapter includes a callout on the role of social networks in strategy execution. This content
presents an opportunity for illustrating how social forces affect an organization’s culture and
coordination systems.

Last, we use Figure 5.5, Capability Planning and Learning to illustrate how the elements of
strategy execution focused on capabilities are brought together. We find this snapshot provides
a strong, synthetic visual tool for students who want to take away a clear picture of how
planning and execution lead to an improved market position.

We wrap up the session with questions for practice (final .ppt slide).

2. Case Recommendations (all materials available via HBS Online for Educators)
For additional cases, see the Case Chart that maps chapters and topics to cases and simulations.

Airborne Express, 798070

Apple Inc., in 2012, 712490
Crown, Cork & Seal in 1989, 793035
Keeping Google “Googley”, 409039
Google in 2014, 9-915-004
Lincoln Electric, 376028
Matching Dell, 9-799-158
Southwest Airlines (A), HR-1A
Trader Joes, 714419
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., 794024
Zara: Fast Fashion, 703497 (also available in multi-media format)

Simulations that connect well with this content:

Executing Strategy -- HBS: Change Management Simulation: Power & Influence V2, 4345-HTM

3. Teaching Tips

Rather than lecture, we use a case-based approach and draw out the lessons of the chapter as
we move through the case discussion. Again, the intent is to have the students put their
knowledge into action -- applying concepts from the chapter to the case. We devote a session
specifically to Strategy Execution however many of the concepts may be reinforced in other
sessions in a core strategy course or multi-session module on strategy. For instance, the
concepts associated with culture and learning may be revisited in the context of acquisition
integration or alliance management; concepts related to organizational structure and

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compensation systems might be reinforced in the context of organizational growth,
turnarounds, managing multibusiness firms, etc.

4. Exercises and links to Video resources

Exercises

A) Alaska Gold Mine,

Source: Carpenter Strategy Toolbox, http://carpenterstrategytoolbox.com/2012/10/27/350/
Description: See the above link for a description and materials (case, .ppt, teaching note &
video)

B) 7-10 minute application exercise: Ask the students to work in pairs on a brief assignment.
The intent is to get them thinking about how to apply a particular concept as a set up for class
discussion. For example, using the case assigned for the session, ask half of the two person
teams to create value chain diagrams and ask the remaining teams to create activity system
diagrams. Discuss the differences between the two frameworks.

C) Value Chains: a flighty topic…

Source: Carpenter Strategy Toolbox, http://carpenterstrategytoolbox.com/2013/12/01/flight-
of-the-value-chain/
Description: In this exercise developed by Norman Sheehan and Edward Gamble, teams use the
value chain concept to develop innovative strategies to fulfill customer requirements and
outperform rivals. Materials posted at the above link include: Journal of Management Educator
article describing the exercise, powerpoint slides, supplementary slides, handouts for the
exercise, a tracking spreadsheet, instructions for participants.

Videos

A) Piece Rate Concept:

A 2-minute clip from the “I love Lucy” show where Lucy and Ethel work on a candy factory line
might be used to introduce or illustrate the piece rate concept (multiple copies can be found at
youtube by searching using terms such as “Lucy’s famous chocolate scene” or “I Love Lucy
candy making.”)

B) Complementarity
“Strategic Complementarities at Steak”, a brief summary and copy of the video are available at
the Carpenter Strategy Toolbox website (category “Humor”), scroll to the bottom of the page:
http://carpenterstrategytoolbox.com/category/humor/

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P N . 91
 THAT EXCLUSIVE LINOLEUM PATTERN
By W H. K

Mr. Koch wandered into the kitchen after a doughnut, and saw black
and white squares all over the floor. “Aha,” thought he, “like a flash,
an idea!” This is it.
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P N . 92
 ADAM’S RIB
By E. P

If this puzzle were Adam, that central double armed cross would be
his rib just before it started turning into Eve. We observe nice fat
masses of words at sides and corners.
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P N . 93
 IN THE CLOVER PATCH
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A splendid construction, particularly in its avoidance of the bane of

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P N . 94
 LITTLE BUT A BAD ’UN
By F C. W

Mr. White must be one of those mild-seeming people who fool you so
often—at least that’s the impression his construction gives the editor.
It is little. It looks harmless. But don’t start it if you have an
appointment two hours hence. But maybe we shouldn’t give this
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P N . 95
 MODERATION
By P R. L

Never too much of anything is the slogan of this constructor. He gives

you a puzzle of moderate difficulty, but a set of easy words and then a
terror hidden among them like a serpent in the grass. The puzzle runs
its way at an even tenor, like an honest man’s life.
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Pasturage
25 Torn 60
piece
Impair
27 Unripe
62
Public
30passages Ventilate
63
Raves32 Product
65 of digestion
Layer35 Slippery
66 fish
Length
36 of the forearm Bearing
67 buds
Member
39 of cat family Influenced
68

VERTICAL

Progeny 1 of one stock Man’s 33nickname

Pert. to2 us Distress
34 signal
Behind3 Cage36 of an elevator
Edible4drupe Hurtful
37
Ancient 5 Biblical country Strain38
Afflict6 Hires42
That 7 Fancy43
Release 8 Precipitation
45
Cleansing
9 agency Suppose
46
Conduct
10 oneself toward Color47
Cat 11 Toothed
48 wheel
Prophet
17 Sharp-pointed
49 instrument
Follows
18 closely Relative
50
Discontinue
21 Precious
51 stone
Mistress
22 of a household Sharpened
52
Obscurity
24 Raw 56metal
Source26of stability Fade 58
Strong28appetite Beverage
61
Topmost
29 bone of spine Exist63
Kind31 of eclipse Egyptian
64 god
Gypsy 32
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 JUST FOR TWO!
By C C and S L

These two contributors send in Cross Words by the dozen, so you can
imagine what splendid vocabularies they must have. This is one of
their best, and it’s not an easy one, either.
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HORIZONTAL

Tatter 1 Squeeze
60
Dressed,
3 as a stone Planet61
A color7 Silicate
62 of magnesia
 Guided11 Note 63
State13 Battering
65 engine
Danger14 Chinese
67 coin
Murmur15 Voter69
Jutting
16rock Earthwork
71
Weird18 Newness
73
Select20set Invisible
75 fluid
Fortify
22 Dromedary
76
Jejune24 Meadow
78
Stranded
25 Grain79
Single27 Java 82
pepper
Game28at cards Cleanser
84
Cone29 bearing tree Iniquity
86
Scrutinize
30 Bark 88
Cereal32grain Vassal
89
Craft34 Exclude
91
Mercenary
35 Trick92
Mohammedan
37 religion Disturbance
93
Foxy39 Become
94 acclivitous
Winnow40 Protrude
97
Darns41 Roadhouse
98
Racing43 boat Lance99
Rhythm45 Extreme
101
Also 49 Sore104
Six angled
50 figure Bond106
Throw 53 A relative
107
Wander54 Wing-shaped
108
Cad 56 Edible
109tuber
Desire57 Toughen
110
Rake58 Hydrocarbon—radical
111
Plunder
59 At a112
distance

VERTICAL

Groove1 Not divine

50
Torniquet
2 Nepaul
51 antelope
Compensation
3 Charge
52
Unit of4 measure Tomfoolery
55
Pithy phrase
5 Vehicle
56