Barriers To Strategy Implementation

Before the drivers and instruments that aid managers in strategy implementation are introduced, it is perhaps worthwhile to identify some of the problems organisations often experience when attempting to implement their chosen strategy or strategies. Some of these problems include:

The Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, a company founded and led by the creators of the balanced scorecard, has found that nine out of ten organisations fail to implement strategies and as few as 10 percent of effectively formulated strategies are effectively implemented. They identified four barriers to strategy implementation. These are diagrammatically depicted in the figure below.

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