What is the Strategy-Execution Gap?
There is a chasm between most leaders' well-thought-out strategy and an organization's ability to implement. We believe that correlation does imply causation in this instance.
<5%
of Employees understand their company's strategy*
Employees are less engaged, motivated and productive when they don't understand how the work they do every day supports their organization's purpose.
Why does the Strategy-Execution Gap still exist?
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Leadership teams are not fully aligned
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Competing priorities across teams and functions
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Strategic cascade never reaches the operating level
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Organizational behaviors don't support change
74%
of Global Leaders do not believe their strategy has been actioned*
How does First Line Strategy bridge the gap?
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We lead surgical organizational interventions.
We leverage deep, cross-industry & cross-functional knowledge to accelerate leaders' agendas.
We take a fresh look at your reputation, relationships, roles, systems and processes.
We help you chart a fresh path.
Through facilitation, we secure stated commitments from your teams to achieve organizational goals.
The Clarity Engine
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Assessment
We diagnose how strategy functions across your organization's value chain and identify misalignments. Often we find a strong desire to deliver, but a confusion of expectations by, from, and between parts of the organization.
Strategy & Alignment
We guide your executive team through a series of exercises, resulting in your firm's ambition, executional roadmap, and success metrics. We create a shared understanding among decision makers, and provide tools to help them cascade this vision.
Prioritization & Commitments
Through guided sessions, we focus organizations on highest value initiatives -- from growth maps to departmental mandates. We cleanly articulate what is to be done. We facilitate stated commitments to achieving your organization's goals from your teams.
Operational & Behavior Change
Change must be more than agreements; change must be outcomes and attitudes. We help your leaders embed your strategy into the governance, roles, daily decisions and conduct that support high performance.
Reinforcement
Purpose comes from understanding how your contributions matter, which means employees at all levels need to understand how their inputs ladder up to the performance of the whole organization. We ensure strategy endures through a teachable process of contribution mapping, upheld by accountability metrics and rewards.
How do we partner?
We Implement Change with Leaders, Not for Them
Our team of seasoned Executives and Researchers are adept at diagnosing and articulating where misalignments lie. They then work collaboratively with your team to solve for them.
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Industry knowledge
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Research expertise
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Direct department and people management
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Corporate and private industry leadership experience
Strategy & Alignment Services
Understand the pinnacles and pitfalls of your Execution Landscape
Executive facilitators guide you through customized processes for addressing Key Business Questions
Focused sessions intentionally designed to result in shared purpose, commonly understood goals and milestones, new structures and key metrics
Our Executive Facilitators are able to initiate and drive critical conversations that result in concrete, measurable plans.
How we do the work is critical - we identify your issues, firmly guide your team toward remediation, and seed positive behaviors and systems
Continued support to address more complex systemic issues, new departments, troubled mergers or organizations in a constant state of change
We work with organizations with complex needs.
Empowering industry frontrunners with tailored solutions and unwavering support.
Share your needs. We'll share a plan of action.
We support motivated leaders intent on quickly moving their organizations in the right direction.
From crystallizing your vision to measuring its reality, First Line Strategy helps you bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap.
Realize your company's ambition.
* Balanced Scorecard and Strategy&.