Strategy & Leadership

Closing the Gap: Designing and Delivering a Strategy that Works

October 03, 2017

Global

October 03, 2017

Global

Most companies struggle to bridge the gap

To understand why many organizations fail to bridge the gap between strategy design and delivery, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), sponsored by the Brightline Initiative, undertook a global multi-sector survey of 500 senior executives from companies with annual revenues of $1 billion or more. Their responses confirm that implementation shortfalls are widespread and corrosive: 90% of respondents admit that they fail to reach all their strategic goals because they don’t implement well, and 53% agree that inadequate delivery capability leaves them unnecessarily exposed to competitors (see the sidebar, “About the Research”.)

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