Indeed, strategies are unless without an excellent implementation plan. Why do strategies if we are not going to successfully implement? Often we put way too much important in strategy that we forget that mastering implementation is just as important. I guess it is just more glorious for the ego to that about strategies than implementation and operations…
See this interesting video from Michael Jarrett, on Harvard Business Review
Getting Strategy Execution Right http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2012/10/getting-strategy-execution-rig.html

Michel Dion, PMP, CPA
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