Learning Objectives
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                 Develop programs, budgets and procedures to 
                implement strategic change
         
                 Understand the importance of achieving synergy 
                during strategy implementation
         
                 List the stages of corporate development and 
                the structure that characterizes each stage
         
                 Identify the blocks to changing from one stage to 
                another
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                                     Learning Objectives
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                Construct matrix and network structures to 
                support flexible and nimble organizational 
                strategies
         
                Decide when and if programs such as 
                reengineering, Six Sigma and job redesign are 
                appropriate methods of strategy implementation
         
                Understand the centralization versus 
                decentralization issue in multinational 
                corporations
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                            Strategy Implementation
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                 Strategy implementation
                 the sum total of all activities and choices required 
                     for the execution of a strategic plan
         
                Who are the people to carry out the strategic 
                plan?
         
                What must be done to align company operations 
                in the intended direction?
         
                How is everyone going to work together to do 
                what is needed?
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                        Common Strategy 
                   Implementation Problems
     1. Took more time than planned
     2. Unanticipated major problems
     3. Ineffective coordination
     4. Competing activities and crises created distractions
     5. Employees with insufficient capabilities
     6. Lower-level employees were inadequately trained
     7. Uncontrollable external environmental factors
     8. Poor departmental leadership and direction
     9. Inadequately defined implementation tasks and activities
     10.Inefficient information system to monitor activities
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                             Developing Programs, Budgets 
                                                   and Procedures
         Program
                 a collection of tactics where a tactic is the 
                      individual action taken by the organization as an 
                      element of the effort to accomplish a plan
         
                 The purpose of a program or a tactic is to make 
                a strategy action-oriented.
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