Linking Strategy to Implementation

Most organisations (large, medium or small) in the world today are facing a similar problem - strategy can not be effectively implemented. The consequence of not implementing the strategy effectively would be low performance. This has lead to a popular criticism "Talk only, no action". Thus, having the right strategy is not sufficient. The leader of an organisation can not just sitting down there waiting for the strategy to be realised by itself. Right strategy should be coupled with an effective implementation plan. How to develop an effective implementation (action) plan is the concern of many organisations today. Research in the more well developed countries and from world leading universities has undegone major change. This change is characterised as paradigm shift. The generation of a new type of knowledge (called mode 2) has improve organisation performance further. The adoption of tools and methods to link strategy and implementation has proven to be successful.