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Strategic Management and Business Policy: Activating Strategies
Strategic Management and Business Policy: Activating Strategies
Chapter 10
Activating strategies
AZHAR KAZMI
Learning objectives
Examine the nature of strategy implementation
Describe the barriers to strategy implementation
Discuss the interrelationship between formulation and
implementation of strategies
Explain the three themes that constitute our model of
strategy implementation
Review the role of project management in strategy
implementation
Review the role of regulatory mechanisms in
procedural implementation
Deliberate on the value of aligning resource allocation
to strategy
Discuss the factors that affect resource allocation and
the difficulties that arise in resource allocation
STRATEGY STRATEGY
FORMULATION IMPLEMENTATION
(THOUGHT) (ACTION)
Formulated Implemented
strategy strategy
Unrealised Emergent
strategy strategy
Based on H. Mintzberg: “Pattern in strategy formation” Management Science May 1978; 24, 9, p. 945.
PROCEDURAL LEADERSHIP
STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION IMPLEMENTATION EVALUATION
PLAN & CONTROL
BEHAVIOURAL OPERATIONAL
IMPLEMENTATION IMPLEMENTATION
RESOURCE
ALLOCATION
FEEDBACK
STRATEGY
PLANS
PROGRAMMES
PROJECTS
BUDGETS
POLICIES,
PROCEDURES,
RULES AND
REGULATIONS
PROJECT CONTROL
OBJECTIVES MEASURES