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Enhancing visualisation to communicate and execute strategy: strategy-to-process maps

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posted on 2023-05-17, 23:47 authored by Kristy de SalasKristy de Salas, Huxley, CM
Purpose
– Developing an organisational, business, or corporate strategy is an important process which sets the direction and the scope for the business, over a period of time. While any organisation can create their own strategy, not all strategies are well executed and lead to business success. What is required is a process that provides a holistic understanding of an organisational strategy, and clear links between the elements of the strategy and the organisational processes that will be central to its execution. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper describes three case studies of medium-sized organisations that were the research context in which the methodology for developing and representing Strategy-to-Process Maps was developed and iteratively refined.

Findings
– Each of these three case organisations had identified a need to better understand their strategic objectives by a stronger visual representation of the components of their strategy, as well as a need to identify how their daily operational tasks contributed to, or distracted from, the achievement of their strategic goals. These cases assisted in the creation of a method of both facilitating better understanding of strategy through visualisation, and better execution through linking strategy to process. This methodology resulted in the employees of these organisations gaining a much stronger understanding of the strategic directions of the organisation and improved the three elements of effective strategy execution: visibility; leverage and responsiveness.

Originality/value
– Strategy-to-Process Maps provide a new way in which organisations can communicate without reliance on any specific strategy development methodology; and can execute their strategy more effectively by linking it closely with organisational processes.

History

Publication title

Journal of Strategy and Management

Volume

7

Pagination

109-126

ISSN

1755-425X

Department/School

School of Information and Communication Technology

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

Place of publication

UK

Rights statement

Copyright 2014 Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Repository Status

  • Restricted

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Other information and communication services not elsewhere classified

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