If you're anything like me, as Q2 2025 begins, you're performing that familiar dance: reconciling ambitious January strategies with sobering implementation realities. Those pristine PowerPoint ...

Implementation of the strategic plan relies heavily on the ... believe that a strategy is “fully baked” once the final PowerPoint presentation deck is released, much of the development is ...

An eight-month examination of strategy making at a telecommunications company showed Prof. Kaplan that PowerPoint was more than just an omnipresent tool. It allowed for greater collaboration ...

and display particularly well in PowerPoint. (I’ve never seen a strategy fail in the boardroom.) Unfortunately, most leaders fail—not in the formulation of strategy, but in its implementation.

Every business has a strategy — or at least, a document to wave in a triumphant display of PowerPoint prowess ... time spent timing implementation timescale horizons No strategy is perfect ...

business management must implement a strategy for implementation. Essentially, a well thought-out and executed implementation plan helps reduce resistance to the changes, according to Kaplan and ...

McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy ...

In 1992, Robert Kaplan and David Norton identified four barriers to effective strategy implementation: lack of understanding, lack of communication, disconnected incentives, and disconnected budgets.

An eight-month examination of strategy making at a telecommunications company showed Prof. Kaplan that PowerPoint was more than just an omnipresent tool. It allowed for greater collaboration ...