Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

The seven critical questions that every executive must answer about their business strategy the ultimate checklist for successful planning and execution.In this concise guide, Harvard Business School professor of strategy implementation Bob Simons walks executives through seven key questions they must ask themselves and their team as they review and implement their strategy. Each of the questions is the crux of an implementation imperative a topic or process which senior managers must master to ensure the success of their strategy, including correct allocation of resources to customers, fostering innovation, and clearly defining core values.What is new here is Simons's synthesis of the most important issues an executive and her team must focus on and his deeper insistence on the probing and often difficult questions which he poses and explores. Unlike other strategy books,Seven Strategy Questionsdoes not propose an entirely new framework to overhaul a company's operations. Rather, Simons shows executives the questions they must ask themselves and their senior managers in order to tighten and implement the strategy already in place, and what to expect based on the answers they give.