Strategy execution · Southern Africa since 2010
Strat.exe helps leadership teams translate strategy into a simple execution process to drive results — through consulting, coaching and training built on the Kaplan-Norton model, by experienced strategy experts.Simplify your strategy to amplify results.
Strat.exe
A specialist strategy-execution firm, boutique by design and led at partner level — helping organisations go from a strategy on paper to results on the ground.
How we think
Four ideas to have in mind when thinking of Strategy Execution.
In fact, 90 out of 100 strategies fail. Execution is what turns a strategy into results: without it, even the best strategy is only a picture of a future the organisation will never reach.
So don’t let your strategy become just a “document”: build a robust strategy execution capability in your organisation that makes you good at achieving and doing what your strategy says.
You can’t ground the plane to fit a new engine. Strategic change has to happen while customers are served, targets are met and the organisation keeps flying.
That takes a steady, structured approach that changes how the business is steered — without putting what already works at risk.
Willy Fog went around the world in 80 days. For sure it was easier to plan it than it was to do it. But not only that, travelling strategic journeys has its own set of specific challenges. That is why the tools and frameworks that you use to plan your Strategic Journey are not the right ones to travel your journey. The Art of travelling requires its own set of tools and frameworks. You need your map and your compass.
These frameworks must help you to make your Strategy: more simple, more measurable, more actionable, easier to cascade across the organisation and down to individuals, easier to communicate, easier to monitor and to test & adapt. Because those are the real challenges that you will encounter in your Execution.
A ship at full speed on the wrong heading only gets faster to nowhere. A boat that keeps turning burns energy without getting anywhere.
Strategy execution is the art of balancing the two: speed to deliver better day to day, and enough steering to change the course into a better long-term direction.
Big ambitions only become real when every team on the ground knows the next street to take. We translate high-level strategy into objectives, measures, initiatives and personal scorecards that people can act on — from the boardroom to the front line.
How we help
Practical courses that teach the full Strategy Execution Model — in person, in house and online.
Obsessed with delivery. We work alongside your team to translate your strategy into results.
Keynotes, panels and event hosting on strategy execution and sustainability strategy.
The Strat.exe Model
Built on an evolution of the Kaplan-Norton model, shaped for the realities of execution: four steps, with leadership & culture at the core. Scroll on to walk through each one.
The Strat.exe Model
Monitor your Execution while you test and adapt your Strategy.
Understand your strategic direction and what your destination should be. Craft your Plan.
Make all departments and employees understand and row in the same direction.
Translate the content of your defined strategy into frameworks that are thought for the challenges of Execution.
From Strategy ZERO to Strategy HERO with the Strat.exe Model
Empowering your Strategy execution journey
The Strat.exe Model
Understand your strategic direction and what your destination should be. Craft your Plan.
Empowering your Strategy execution journey
The Strat.exe Model
Translate the content of your defined strategy into frameworks that are thought for the challenges of Execution.
Empowering your Strategy execution journey
The Strat.exe Model
Make all departments and employees understand and row in the same direction.
Empowering your Strategy execution journey
The Strat.exe Model
Monitor your Execution while you test and adapt your Strategy.
Empowering your Strategy execution journey
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See where your strategy execution stands — and what it would take to go from Strategy ZERO to Strategy HERO.
Who you’ll work with
Strat.exe is partner-led. Whether it’s an assessment, a consulting project, coaching or a training course, a partner or senior director is involved — from the first conversation to the final review.
Clients include: Standard Bank, Altron, Sasol, Old Mutual, MTN MoMo (MTN Fintech), Absa, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Exxaro, Momentum, Altron Digital Business, Sasol and Dyno Nobel, Joburg City Parks and Zoo, Dimension Data, Swaziland Building Society, Netstar, CEF Group of Companies, Cennergi, Altron Document Solutions, Broadband Infraco, ICT Works, Central Bank of Eswatini, Altron HealthTech, Eswatini Electricity Company, RES Corporation.
Seven years inside the consulting firm founded by Professors Kaplan and Norton, the creators of the Balanced Scorecard. Almost thirty years advising executive teams on strategy definition, translation, cascading and management. Adjunct Faculty in Strategy Execution at GIBS, and a speaker alongside Professors Kaplan and Norton at several conferences.
Partner-led, every time
Every engagement has a partner or senior director involved throughout — setting the approach, working alongside your leadership team and staying close to the work. You won’t be handed down a chain. They’re supported by experienced strategy consultants with international experience across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and first-hand knowledge of the Southern African market.
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