Strategy and Organization Must Align

Organizations develop, evaluate, carry out, report on, re-evaluate, and adapt the strategy needed to achieve the vision of the business model.

Strategy includes the high level overall and necessarily evolving plan that drives all subservient plans intended to accomplish the business objectives fulfilling the vision of fully executing the business model.

Strategy can be sufficiently defined only if the vision of desired outcomes is sufficiently defined, and ultimately must take into account currently de facto realities of organization and even leadership.

Aligning organization with strategy in an always imperfect and ever changing real world is a practical ongoing iterative process, as strategy logically dictates organization, but inevitably evolves out of existent organization and perspective.

Superior strategies executed to perfection is the endless quest, but as in so many things, there is a certain amount of choice and accountability associated with strategy and its execution via organization. Winners of many competitions have resulted from both superior strategies more weakly executed as well as weaker strategies more perfectly executed.

While even the best laid strategies and plans are subject to change, the competitive difference can be decisive, wise discernment whether to persevere to execute better or to change strategy. An enlightened leader-inspired self-directed organization will continuously strive to be learning and gaining quickly from experience how to modify to improve both strategy and execution.