Lack of Systems Thinking and Action
Everything is connected
to everything else. You can never do just one thing. Changing one
strategic element has a ripple effect that impacts other parts
of
corporate strategy, which in
turn have their own ripple effects, and so on.
Further, to
translate a
strategic plan into
action that bring
desired organizational outcomes requires incorporating numerous
variables: organizational arrangements, social factors,
individual behavior, processes, and technology.
Lack of
systems thinking –
the ability to see
business as a whole
including the many different types of relationships between the many
elements in a complex system – is thus a major impediment to
successful strategy implementation.
