Effective execution of strategies

The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution from Harvard Business Review points out that implementation depends largely on 2 factors:

• Clarifying decision rights— for instance, specifying who “owns” each decision and who must provide input
• Ensuring information flows where it’s needed— such as promoting managers laterally so they build networks needed for the cross-unit collaboration critical to a new strategy

Booz has also published an interesting Organization Effectiveness Simulator.