Strategy = Execution : Faster Improvement, Renewal, and Innovation in the New Economy

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Effectiveness, Agility and Speed are Key in Strategy Execution -- 1.1 Today's No. 1 Challenge is to Innovate Faster -- 1.2 Organizations Suck at Strategy Execution -- 1.3 The New Normal -- 1.4 Digitalization Drives Innovation -- 1.5 Uncertainty Galore -- 1.6 The Last Competitive Edge -- 1.7 Methodology -- 2 A Modern View of Strategy Execution: Six Success Factors -- 2.1 Success Factor 1: Identify and Execute 3 Types of Change -- 2.1.1 Excellence in strategy execution follows from excellence in Running and Changing the Business -- 2.1.2 Demystify 'change' and differentiate three types -- 2.2 Success Factor 2: Resist One-Sidedness -- 2.2.1 Effectiveness and agility before perfectionism -- 2.2.2 Soft is hard and hard is soft: Balance is everything -- The Strategy Execution &amp -- Change Accelerator-SECA.NU -- 2.2.3 Strategy execution is a process like any other -- 2.3 Success Factor 3: Disrupt or Be Disrupted -- 2.3.1 Defining your digital strategy and value propositions -- 2.3.2 Stop looking at your customers in cliché ways -- 2.3.3 Navigating by means of digital structure and agile management -- 2.3.4 Developing new capabilities and a high-energy culture -- 2.3.5 Two- track technology -- 2.3.6 Lastly: Startups are not as far ahead as you think -- 2.4 Success Factor 4: Emphasize Who over Why, How and What -- 2.4.1 The right person for the right job -- 2.4.2 Strong business case for engagement -- 2.5 Success Factor 5: Make Strategy Execution Your No. 1 Priority -- 2.5.1 Strategy execution is a discipline in its own right -- 2.5.2 Magic and demystification in change leadership -- 2.5.3 Continual alignment -- 2.6 Success Factor 6: Go for 20% Strategy and 80% Execution -- 2.6.1 Reversing how time and money is spent.