Strategy Execution

Deliver the priorities that matter to the business.

  • Programme mobilisation

    Establish the workstreams, funding and responsibilities required to deliver the strategy alongside existing business commitments.

  • Embedded fractional executives

    Bring experienced executive leadership into your team on a part-time basis, with responsibility for an agreed function, programme or strategic priority.

  • Programme management

    Coordinate delivery across functions, manage dependencies and bring unresolved decisions to the leaders authorised to settle them.

  • Programme recovery

    Diagnose slipping commitments and reset scope, resources or sequencing to put delivery on a workable footing.

  • Change and implementation

    Work with managers to introduce new responsibilities and working practices, addressing the practical difficulties teams encounter.

  • Performance and benefits management

    Track delivery against the business case, with agreed starting points, benefit owners and measures of financial or operating performance.

Client challenges addressed

The strategy has been approved, but delivery has not gained momentum
The business lacks executive capacity for a critical priority

An embedded fractional executive can take responsibility for the agreed work, with defined authority and reporting to leadership.

Initiatives are competing with each other and daily operations
Delivery is delayed between functions
The programme reports activity without showing business improvement

Intended outcomes

  1. 01

    Leadership capacity to deliver

    Named leaders with the time and authority required, supported by an embedded fractional executive where needed.

  2. 02

    A coordinated programme

    Priorities, resources and dependencies managed across the functions responsible for implementation.

  3. 03

    Timely management decisions

    Delivery problems brought to the right decision-maker, with agreed actions and follow-through.

  4. 04

    Accountability for business results

    Progress assessed against the expected benefits, with responsibility for investigating and addressing shortfalls.

Engagement approach.

  1. Assess the commitments

    We review the strategy, budgets and delivery plans with management and initiative owners. The assessment identifies capacity gaps, competing priorities and decisions putting results at risk.

  2. Establish leadership and delivery arrangements

    We agree the programme, responsibilities and decision authority. Where a fractional executive is embedded, the mandate specifies expected results, time commitment and reporting arrangements.

  3. Lead and support implementation

    We work with delivery teams, review commitments at risk and resolve obstacles. Management reviews assess costs, progress and benefits together, with changes agreed when the evidence requires them.

Featured case study

Establishing ownership of a telecommunications growth programme

An African telecommunications group needed to coordinate change across its business. Senior stakeholders agreed priorities, assessed capability requirements and developed a transformation roadmap. The work established ownership of the main workstreams to support delivery and progress reporting.

An agreed transformation roadmap with defined workstream ownership.

Sector:
Telecommunications
Market:
Africa
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FAQs

Can you provide an executive to work within our business?

Yes. A fractional executive can be embedded on a part-time basis with an agreed mandate, decision authority and responsibility for specified priorities.

Can you help recover a programme already under way?
Can you support one priority rather than the whole strategy?
How do you assess whether the work is delivering?