Successfully Implement Strategy Within Your Organization

Strategy Execution will equip you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, manage risk, and execute strategy. You’ll explore common challenges that prevent or derail implementation and learn how to design systems and structures that meet your organization’s strategic objectives.

Strategy Execution


Business Analytics

Successfully Implement Strategy Within Your Organization

Strategy Execution will equip you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, manage risk, and execute strategy. You’ll explore common challenges that prevent or derail implementation and learn how to design systems and structures that meet your organization’s strategic objectives.

What You'll Learn

  • Apply frameworks, tools, and goal-setting and tracking exercises to your own strategic initiatives
  • Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and control
  • Design measurement systems for every dimension of business performance
  • Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution
  • Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool, which helps design high-performance jobs that enhance a team’s ability to execute critical responsibilities
  • Foster successful strategy execution by establishing an environment that communicates which opportunities and behaviors are encouraged and which are out of bounds
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About the Professor

Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, and has taught courses on strategy execution, management control systems, and accounting for more than 30 years. His book, Levers of Control, which describes how effective top managers balance innovation and control, won the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award. For three consecutive years, he’s also been named one of the top four best-selling business case authors in the world by The Case Centre. His other books include Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution and Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment.

Who Will Benefit

Mid-Level Managers and Professionals

Mid-Level Managers
and Professionals

Gain the frameworks and tools to improve strategy execution within your team, department, or organization.

Aspiring Managers

Aspiring Managers
 

Prepare for a managerial role and position yourself for advancement by learning how to effectively implement strategy.

Entrepreneurs and Consultants

Entrepreneurs and
Consultants

Design new structures and systems to manage the core tensions of strategy execution and meet business goals.

Program Structure

Strategy Execution consists of approximately 40 hours of material delivered over a six-week period. You can complete the coursework on your own time while meeting regular deadlines.

February 2021

Course Start Date: 24th February 2021

Length: 6 Weeks

Regular price $1,750

Application Deadline: 15th February 2021

Syllabus

Strategy Execution features adaptations of award-winning, best-selling Harvard Business School case studies, as well as opportunities to engage with peers in team discussions. Participants will explore common challenges that prevent or derail execution and learn how to design systems and structures that meet their organization’s strategic objectives.

You'll also benefit from the insights of industry leaders and expert faculty at Harvard Business School, including Susanna Gallani, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, and Eugene Soltes, Professor of Business Administration. Their research findings and perspectives will complement Professor Simons’ teachings on incentive design and risk management, respectively.

Leaders interviewed:

  • Meghna Modi, Managing Director at Go Mobile
  • Denise Montgomery, Mary Kay Independent Sales Director
  • Tom Polen, CEO and President of Becton Dickinson
  • David Rodriguez, EVP and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at Marriott
  • Kasper Rorsted, CEO of adidas
  • Tom Siebel, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of C3.ai
  • Bruce Welty, CEO of Quiet Logistics

Learning requirements: In order to earn a Certificate of Completion, participants must thoughtfully complete all six modules and exercises therein (including a capstone activity which integrates and applies the concepts covered in the course) by stated deadlines.

Syllabus

Strategy Execution features adaptations of award-winning, best-selling Harvard Business School case studies, as well as opportunities to engage with peers in team discussions. Participants will explore common challenges that prevent or derail execution and learn how to design systems and structures that meet their organization’s strategic objectives.

You'll also benefit from the insights of industry leaders and expert faculty at Harvard Business School, including Susanna Gallani, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, and Eugene Soltes, Professor of Business Administration. Their research findings and perspectives will complement Professor Simons’ teachings on incentive design and risk management, respectively.

Leaders interviewed:

  • Meghna Modi, Managing Director at Go Mobile
  • Denise Montgomery, Mary Kay Independent Sales Director
  • Tom Polen, CEO and President of Becton Dickinson
  • David Rodriguez, EVP and Global Chief Human Resources Officer at Marriott
  • Kasper Rorsted, CEO of adidas
  • Tom Siebel, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of C3.ai
  • Bruce Welty, CEO of Quiet Logistics

Learning requirements: In order to earn a Certificate of Completion, participants must thoughtfully complete all six modules and exercises therein (including a capstone activity which integrates and applies the concepts covered in the course) by stated deadlines.

Modules Case Studies Takeaways Key Exercises
Module 1: Managing the Tensions of Strategy Execution
  • ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers
  • C3.ai: Driven to Succeed
  • Understand the various tensions managers face as they implement strategy
  • Implement a framework for managing those tensions effectively
  • Analyze your organization’s approach to managing common organizational tensions
  • Identify strengths and deltas in your organization’s approach to executing strategy
Module 2: Aligning Job Design to Strategy
  • Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams
  • Optimize the design of key jobs and align them to strategy
  • Analyze a job using the Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT)
  • Recommend a set of job design improvements
Module 3: Empowering Employees to Execute Strategy
  • Henkel: Building a Winning Culture
  • Apply techniques to spur high performance and creativity among employees
  • Create core values that inspire and guide employees through difficult decisions
  • Identify ways to dial up performance and increase innovation within your team
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of your organization’s core values
Module 4: Measuring and Monitoring Performance
  • Citibank: Performance Measurement
  • Create performance measurement systems that account for all dimensions of strategy execution while conserving scarce time and attention
  • Analyze and improve your organization’s approach to profit planning
  • Identify critical performance variables and develop goals, measures, and targets corresponding to them
  • Analyze a range of incentive types and identify the most useful ones for different contexts
Module 5: Identifying and Managing Risks
  • Westchester Distributing, Inc.
  • Quiet Logistics
  • Describe and identify common risks businesses face
  • Create systems for managing and mitigating them
  • Identify internal risk pressures using the Risk Exposure Calculator
  • Propose solutions for a new conduct boundary at your organization
Module 6: Balancing Innovation and Control
  • Continental Media Group: Business Highlights
  • Automation Consulting Services
  • Apply techniques to help your business innovate and adapt to change while maintaining clear focus and retaining necessary controls
  • Identify which opportunities your organization should and should not pursue
  • Propose a system you can use to focus organizational attention on emerging threats and uncertainties
  • Apply course-wide knowledge by proposing a set of solutions to strategy execution challenges at a growing consulting firm
  • Capstone activity: develop an action plan for implementing the levers of control at your or another organization

The HBS Online Advantage

  • World-class faculty
  • Edge-of-your-seat online learning
  • Global peer collaboration and networking
  • Real-world, case-based learning

Harvard Business School Online offers a unique and highly engaging way to learn vital business concepts. Solve issues facing your organization by immersing yourself in the systems, structures, and insights other organizations across industries have leveraged to tackle strategy execution. You’ll learn from leaders at Quiet Logistics, Marriott, adidas, C3.ai, Go Mobile, Becton Dickinson, Henkel, and Citibank.

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