20 Facts About Strategy and Execution That Every CEO Should Know

20 FactsAbout Strategy and Execution
That Every CEO
Should Know

Studies show that businesses that successfully execute strategies
outperform those that don’t by a factor of 2 to 1.
With that in mind, Six Disciplines has collected 20 essential facts about
strategy and execution that every CEO should know.

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Strategy [strat-i-jee], noun: A plan, method, or series of programs
designed to obtain a specific goal or result.
Execution [ek-si-kyoo-shun], noun: The act or process of carrying
out or accomplishing a set of plans or strategies.

Just 5% of employees
surveyed understand
what their company’s
actual strategy is.
Source: Jeroen De Flander
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Of the middle managers
surveyed, only 55% were
able to address one of their
company’s top five priorities.
Source: Harvard Business Review

Only 10% of
companies achieve
what they had
strategized to do.

Just 20% of managers believe their
organizations do a good job when it
comes to shifting people across units
to support an implied strategy.

40% of managers believe
the greatest challenge
is the failure to align
their plans with the
corporate strategy.

Only 40% of organizations
link budgets to strategy.

8/10 managers believe their companies fail
to leave declining businesses or let go of
unsuccessful initiatives quickly enough.

In one study, only 11% believe
that their company’s
strategic priorities have the
financial and human
resources needed to succeed.

71% of companies that are strong in
execution believe that everyone has a
good idea of decisions and actions
for which they are responsible.

Out of every 7 new product ideas,
only 4 enter development, 1/5 are
launched, and only 1 of the
launched products succeeds.
Source: Hype

The success rate of newly
launched products has only
bumped 1% since 1997.
Source: Hype

Just 25% of the managers
surveyed in one study have
concerns linked to strategy.

85% of executive teams spend less
than an hour discussing strategy
every month.

According to research conducted by HBR, companies find
that only 40-60 percent of strategies are of potential value.

57% of CEO’s
have started
other companies.
Source: Statistic Brain

47% of CEO’s intend to start another company in the future.
Source: Statistic Brain

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