The Elements of Strong Execution
Our conclusions arise out of decades of practical application
and intensive research. Nearly fi ve years ago, we and our colleagues
set out to gather empirical data to identify the actions
that were most effective in enabling an organization to implement
strategy. What particular ways of restructuring, motivating,
improving information fl ows, and clarifying decision
rights mattered the most? We started by drawing up a list of 17
traits, each corresponding to one or more of the four building
blocks we knew could enable effective execution – traits like
the free fl ow of information across organizational boundaries