Continuation of point 2 #3 Poor staffing Are your key focus areas with the right people responsible for driving them? Are there clear targets to measure progress on whether they are doing a good job or not? Are your weekly SMT meetings brainstorming meetings or are about reporting on performance against set targets in their respective scorecard performance areas? It is difficult to analyse effective staffing unless you have clear scorecard targets per pillar or strategic focus area. Most of the time, you find wrong people in the right places. For example, business leaders make a strategy, and are required…
Barriers to effective strategy execution point 2
Continuation of point 1 #2 Misalignment of structure to strategy Are you trying to fit a tight small size dress into a body of a fat baby? That is what happens when you try to fit your strategy into your existing structure. There are several reasons why business leaders fail to execute strategy. One of the biggest reasons I have found based on the so many interactions with CEO’s and other executives is the failure to align the structure to strategy. Most of the time, leaders make a document and call it ‘strategic plan.’ Anybody can do that because planning is the…
Barriers to effective strategy execution
It is easy to write a document and name it strategic plan. Because planning is easy. Anyone can plan. However, very few realize their plans. Why? The measure of an effective strategy is reflected in effective execution. Avoid the mistake most leaders make of looking at strategic planning asa SWOT analysis exercise and target setting against the balanced scorecard dimensions! Don’t limit your business potential by thinking within your vision and mission to deliver a great strategy. The measure of an effective strategy is reflected in effective execution. As a strategy and risk expert, I have identified the…
Who was Chris Musando or Chris Msando or CHRISTOPHER CHEGE MSANDO?
You must be too sophisticated and security conscious to escape Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. Yet that is what the late Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, the (IEBC) ICT top honcho, Chris Msando, almost achieved.There are limited records of his career and education background on major social networks and search engines. However, the news of the death of Chris Msando or Chris Musando have dominated the media – TV, social networks and print. The late has been described as one of the most highly educated IT experts at IEBC who was instrumental in the setup and management of the electronic election management system…