Exam 14: Strategic Implementation

Involvement of individuals in the implementation process through membership of teams,groups or steering-committees is call structural integration.

Strategy implementation is focused on defining what constitutes success,the means to get there,and ________.

Marketing strategies are concerned exclusively with the needs of customers.

A key task for implementation management is to induce and develop positive,and diminish negative attitudes and behavioural patterns among key opinion formers.

What are the characteristics of a well-developed functional strategy?

The beginning of an implementation process is unlikely to be dominated by the management of perceptions and beliefs.

This is a characteristic of effective metrics:

Identify seven propositions that are said to make strategic implementation more likely to take hold.

Some organizations have built their entire competitive strategy on effective use of information systems.

How are marketing strategies affected by the firm's business-level strategy?

Power and politics can be exerted:

What are the five overall keys to implementation control?

Well-developed functional strategies should have all of the following characteristics except:

________ metrics are numerically based measures of firm success.

Potential promoters of implementation display negative or passive behaviour,but their attitude is positive.

Successful implementation requires management of direct and indirect aspects of strategic change.

Opponents to implementation should be ignored.

The following are useful tools to manage power and politics during implementation:

The "complete alignment of the company's strategy ,structure,and value chain" describes the concept of fit.

What are the organizational aspects that can be directly changed during implementation of strategies?