How To Plan And Execute Strategy

Ah...if it was only this easy...

How to Plan and Execute Strategy: How To Implement Any Corporate Strategy Successfully

1. Appreciate the benefits of strategic management
2. Understand the logic of the process
3. Assess your readiness
4. Planning to plan and getting organized
5. Define your businesses
6. Assess your current situation
7. Understand your business model
8. Know your market
9. Assess the competitive landscape and forces of change
10. Understand your opportunities and threats
11. Set feasible goals and objectives
12. Create the strategies to achieve your objectives
13. Identify and set priorities for the strategic initiatives
14. Write your business plan
15. Write your annual plan
16. Get the right people
17. Communicate the strategy and obtain commitment
18. Establish alignment with structure, systems, and culture
19. Integrate across functions
20. Execute your strategy with discipline
21. Monitor results, evaluate, and react
22. Learn, change, and institutionalize

Sounds so ....simple, eh? Why then....is it so hard?