How Strong Are Your Strategy Execution Capabilities?

How often do teams meet to talk about goal progress, work priorities and challenges?

Weekly

Ad Hoc

Rarely

If you’re not regularly reviewing your goals, you’re not fully informing your decisions. Regular progress assessments allow us to determine whether we’ve chosen the best course of action.

What proportion of time are the people you've made responsible for delivering your top priorities working on them?

All

Some

None

When your team focuses solely on your highest priorities, achieving your goals becomes more likely. Conversely, if these priorities compete with many other ‘important’ tasks, progress is likely to suffer.

How frequently have you stopped projects that aren’t delivering outcomes?

Frequently

Rarely

Never

Recognising when a project will fail to meet our goals is key to strategic success. An organisation’s agility and ability to thrive in a changing world are demonstrated by confidently halting these projects, even after significant investment.

Do you employ experimental language and methods to test your strategic concepts? e.g. a stated hypothesis with a definition of success and failure.

Yes

No

It is an uncomfortable truth that many of our ideas will not work. Short feedback loops in the form of experiments are the best way to reject the failed ideas quickly. Great outcomes come from connected innovative experiments that build confidence while understanding and managing risk.

Who knows the key metrics that represent success for their team and reviews them frequently to inform decisions

All

Some

None

Using evidence and data is essential to eliminate bias in decision-making. It helps us prioritise our actions and assess their success.

Focus, Accountability & Agility

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Great work! Holding a weekly meeting focused on your top priorities is one of the main signals you are heading for success. Enhance these meetings by holding a frank discussion centred around evidence and data, not opinion.
It’s a good start, but by consistently holding a weekly goal review session you will keep your top priorities front and centre. You’ll be able to adapt and change course quickly. This is one of the main habits underpinning great strategic results. We can help you maximise the effectiveness of these meetings.
It’s a good start, but by consistently holding a weekly goal review session you will keep your top priorities front and centre. You’ll be able to adapt and change course quickly. This is one of the main habits underpinning great strategic results. We can help you maximise the effectiveness of these meetings.
It’s a good start, but by consistently holding a weekly goal review session you will keep your top priorities front and centre. You’ll be able to adapt and change course quickly. This is one of the main habits underpinning great strategic results. We can help you maximise the effectiveness of these meetings.
Holding a weekly meeting focused on your top priorities is one of the main signals you are heading for success. If you can build this habit you will significantly increase your chances of strategic success. We can help you build that habit.

Investing The Right Amount Of Time

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Having all or most of your time dedicated to your highest priorities is where most organizations can only aspire to get to. Well done. If the number of priorities is very small, you are demonstrating great focus.
It's great that you're dedicating some time to prioritise important work, but to excel, enhancing your focus is key. We can assist you in refining your goal setting and execution strategies to achieve this.
It's great that you're dedicating some time to prioritise important work, but to excel, enhancing your focus is key. We can assist you in refining your goal setting and execution strategies to achieve this.
It's great that you're dedicating some time to prioritise important work, but to excel, enhancing your focus is key. We can assist you in refining your goal setting and execution strategies to achieve this.
Identifying your key challenges is an excellent starting point. The crucial next step is to intensify your focus on these areas. We can enhance your goal setting and execution to ensure maximum effort aligns with your strategic goals

Stopping Projects That Are Not Working

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Congratulations. You are not a victim of the sunk cost fallacy. By keeping outcomes front of mind and using evidence to end failing initiatives you are setup for success. Further shortening of your feedback cycle will bring even greater rewards.
You have shown foresight by cancelling failed projects in a timely fashion. To take the next step, frequently use evidence to see if an approach is worth continuing with. Adapting to change is more important than ever. We can help put this practise in place.
You have shown foresight by cancelling failed projects in a timely fashion. To take the next step, frequently use evidence to see if an approach is worth continuing with. Adapting to change is more important than ever. We can help put this practise in place.
You have shown foresight by cancelling failed projects in a timely fashion. To take the next step, frequently use evidence to see if an approach is worth continuing with. Adapting to change is more important than ever. We can help put this practise in place.
Halting projects that will fail to meet your goals is crucial to strategic success. It is a hallmark of successful and agile companies. We can help you find the evidence to inform these tough decisions.

Being Great At Experimentation

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All companies have lots of ideas. Like the best you have found a powerful approach to sort the good from the bad. This is potentially a world beating advantage for innovation.
All companies have lots of ideas. The best find a repeatable way to test ideas through experiments. You have made some progress in this direction but we can help you build that practise into a world beating innovation advantage.
All companies have lots of ideas. The best find a repeatable way to test ideas through experiments. You have made some progress in this direction but we can help you build that practise into a world beating innovation advantage.
All companies have lots of ideas. The best find a repeatable way to test ideas through experiments. You have made some progress in this direction but we can help you build that practise into a world beating innovation advantage.
Without the ability to undertake experiments you will find it challenging to separate the good ideas from the bad. This leads to wasted time and money. We can teach you this approach and help you innovate quicker than the competition.

Pairing Outcomes & Outputs

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Great work. Having an understanding of the metrics that drive company success is core to many high performing companies. By putting evidence front and centre you are well positioned to outperform your competition.
Understanding the metrics that underpin your success is crucial You have made some progress here, but with more focus you can match the best performing organisations. We can help you refine your metrics model.
Understanding the metrics that underpin your success is crucial You have made some progress here, but with more focus you can match the best performing organisations. We can help you refine your metrics model.
Understanding the metrics that underpin your success is crucial You have made some progress here, but with more focus you can match the best performing organisations. We can help you refine your metrics model.
You are not currently benefiting from good metrics. Metrics are one of the most important sources for management decision making. They are a key point of difference for many organisations. We can help you take significant strides to embrace this massive opportunity.