Strategy Execution: Is It a Culture or Process Issue?

Harvard Business on-line’s post by Tom Davenport seems to deal with culture when describing two extremes to strategy development and execution:
1. Strategic Engineering- strategy is an engineering exercise with employees being the cogs in the machine.
2. Strategic Anarchy- executives get out of the way of employee’s entrepreneurial and innovative energies.
He suggests that a reconciliation of the two must take place.
While I see it as a culture issue I also see it like one of the commentors as not so much a reconciliation problem but one of creating a flexible environment controlled by standardized business processes. Letting elements of anarchy prevail …read more