TABLE OF CONTENTS When you're in a business where the capital assets travel five hundred miles per hour you have to be quick and responsive.
Herb Kelleher
Try not; do or do not. There is no try.
Jedi Master Yoda
This chapter, will focus on the part of the strategic planning process ( SPP) that involves implementing our strategic plans. Thus far, the concentration is largely upon the formulation of the plans themselves; merely mentioning that implementation should be part of our considerations. Hopefully, going through the material in this chapter, you will begin to see why this part of the process is so important. In addressing these concerns, some material already discussed previously will be revisited in a somewhat different context, as well as introducing some new material.
As you might guess, strategy implementation is simply the set of activities necessary to fully execute an organization's strategies. Like many definitions, this one is easy to state and remember, but its implications are deceptively far-reaching. Just how important is implementation in the SPP? To answer that question, ask yourself how important implementation is in the context of sports, or perhaps a military combat operation. Devising your strategy is obviously a critical step. As it has been discussed in the first several chapters, a great deal...
