Implementing Your Strategic Plan: How to Turn Intent into Effective Action for Sustainable Change

Implementing Your Strategic plan is a practical, process-oriented book on how to implement strategic plans. It is based on extensive interviews with CEOs and the authors extensive experience, and it contains dozens of illustrations of "real" plans and processes. The book examines the 18 keys to success in implementing strategy including: accountability systems; turning strategic priorities into action; departmental planning; accountability; organization structure;people changes; creative leadership and mental toughness; removing resistance;using teams; defining the future culture; allocation of resources; aligning the organization's work from top to bottom; empowering execution; selecting, training and developing for the future; fixing broken core processes; communication; reviewing performance; rewarding strategic results. "Implementing Your Strategic Plan" addresses the strategic change process and has an extensive section of comments by CEOs about their personal experience with implementing strategy. It is a practical book, presenting real examples, that will guide the reader through implementing strategy.

About C. Davis Fogg Dave Fogg is a nationally known consultant to top management, a strategist, author and keynote speaker. He specializes in helping companies achieve extraordinary future results through developing a view of the future, a vision, creative strategies and superb implementation. He is a personal coach and counsel to CEOs, COOs, and senior leaders. Business History: He is uniquely qualified for his roles. After a two year MIT Fellowship in Africa in Economic Development in Nigeria, he spent 20 years in big business. He occupied ＂all of the seats＂. At Corning Inc, Dave managed sales, marketing, international strategic planning, new ventures, product development and an electronic components business. He headed the Johnston and Murphy Shoe Company, and was President of Bausch and Lomb’s Ophthalmic Lens Division and Consumer Products Division Consulting: Founded in 1981, Fogg Management Consulting has consulted for over 150 organizations in virtually every industry. Speaking/Training: Dave taught strategic planning, strategy, implementation, and many general management subjects in executive programs at many institutions including Vanderbilt, Columbia, Emory, MIT, Penn State, University of Wisconsin, and The AMA’s Presidents Association. Education and Publications: He is a graduate of Yale University and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He authored Diagnostic Marketing (Addison Wesley 1985), Implementing Your Strategic Plan (AMACOM 1999), and Team-Based Strategic Planning (AMACOM 1994), a professional best seller now in its 12th printing. He has authored many articles. Dave was chosen as the expert on implementing strategy for Harvard Business School Publication’s outstanding Online Mentor Plus program.