Current Issues in Strategy Implementation
When to Formulate Strategy
When rapid and discontinuous changes occur in the environment of the firm.
Saturation of traditional markets
Technological discoveries inside or outside the firm
Sudden influx of new competitors
Difficulties encountered in implanting strategy formulation
Pre-strategy decision-making processes are heavily political in nature
Strategy introduces rationality disruptive to historical culture of the firm.
Strategic planning triggers conflict btn previous profit-making activities and the new innovative activities.
Organizations typically do not have capability, capacity or motivational systems to think or act strategically.
Conceptual Model
For Strategy Implementation to be successful three dimensions must be addressed coherently namely:
Context
Content
Process
The lack of fit between a strategic plan and its contexts could result in strategic plans tending not to be subjected to corrective action.
different contexts do have different impacts on strategy implementation. Technology availability is one of the major factors to differentiate various contexts.
In another aspect, Mintzberg and Quinn (1998) claim that there are various internal contexts appropriate to manage strategies in terms of organizational configuration. Those contexts could be on a continuum of entrepreneurial to , innovative,
The lack of fit between a strategic plan and its contexts could result in strategic plans tending not to be subjected to corrective action.
different contexts do have different impacts on strategy implementation. Technology availability is one of the major factors to differentiate various contexts.
In another aspect, Mintzberg and Quinn (1998) claim that there are various internal contexts appropriate to manage strategies in terms of organizational configuration. Those contexts could be on a continuum of entrepreneurial to ,...