Fast, good or cheap—your company will, broadly speaking, seek to compete along two of these dimensions. When designing a planning strategy it must serve enterprise goals, maximizing its strengths and managing the inevitable tradeoffs. In this article I reveal how to develop an operations planning approach that both maximizes a company’s competitive advantages and translates enterprise strategy into on-the- ground execution. I include a real-life example of a planning strategy that served a particular business model and how success was achieved through cultural change and effective performance ...

From Issue: From Theory to Practice: Converting Company Strategy to Flawless Execution
(Winter 2022-2023)

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From Theory to Practice: Converting Company Strategy to Flawless Execution