Home

Products

Site Map

Index By Subject

Search

Index by Producer

What's New

E-Mail Us

Links

 

Executing Your Strategy

Scroll Down for a Preview of this Program

 

Raymond Levitt
Professor
Stanford University School of Engineering

 

Program Highlights
  • Strategic planning requires emphasis on objectives that must be met in the near future as well as their completion.

  • Any such planning must be flexible in order to react to changing circumstances.

  • The combination of strategic planning and the execution of the plan requires management to move quickly and to be responsive.

The execution of strategy is becoming more and more difficult in the stormy seas of ever changing global economic currents, fast moving technological changes, and a business environment that sways and shifts. How do you execute a strategy while standing on these shifting sands?. The answer, Professor Levitt says, is to plan for the short-term and, as you plan, continually question your market and competitive position as well as the resources you have available. And, in the light of change, change your plan for we live in an era that is anything but static.

Dr. Levitt also suggests that the structure of your organization, it's culture, and the strategy you have adopted must mesh and meld as one. He goes on to note that some business failures are caused by adopting projects that are not in accord with the strengths and mission of the organization or by funding ventures that are often out of date before they are completed.

 
Professor Levitt serves as Director of Stanford's Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects and as Academic Director of the award-winning Stanford Advanced Project Management executive program.

Sample Clip

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

53 Minutes (2008) DVD/VHS - # SV68-2 - $95.00

Buy DVD

  QTY

Buy VHS

  QTY

 

 

Back to the Lead Page for the Stanford Executive Briefings Series