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Choosing the right strategy and implementing it agilely in the field will go a long way towards strengthening your decision-making capabilities. It also helps to understand the nuances of a possible choice. A strategy does not present a single black-and-white option but a multitude of colours and nuances. The right organisational processes and systems not only make it possible to increase agility with regard to strategy implementation but also to keep a close eye on the financial elements and the return on investment. Again, a company should not have to make major strategic choices constantly. A company’s board of directors or senior management must have the ability to know how to support and understand operational implementation at the same time. Those responsible for a functional area must also have the ability to understand how corporate strategy fits into day-to-day tasks. But this ability is sorely lacking. In a Harvard Business Review article that caused quite a stir at the time, only 8% of senior managers were sufficiently skilled in both strategy and operational implementation. – Strategy and innovation in figures, according to an article published in Harvard Business Review – find and download the .pdf format of this infographic at www.Debbaut.Solutions[ /caption] In other words, as you can see from the image above, out of a hundred senior managers, only eight are good at both. I believe that these figures are even lower these days because technology has become indispensable to every type of business. There are very few people on the market who understand technology as well as business and the humanities. These types of leaders are found in companies that appeal to end customers, have operational excellence in all functional areas, and are highly profitable and truly innovative. Firms specialising in the turnaround of projects and companies in difficulty have a higher proportion of this type of leader, as the obligation to achieve results is a prerequisite and indispensable to the very nature of this type of organisation. If only 8 out of a hundred managers are competent, what about the others? The remaining 92 managers do not at all fall into the category of ‘incompetent managers ‘ as the operational teams may perceive them, but wrongly so. This category of managers is competent but in relation to a functional area in which they have previously been active. Often, senior company executives arrive with expertise in a functional area linked to the financial aspect, and it is this ‘familiar ‘ aspect that dictates the strategic line. However, a purely financial approach to the company does not always produce the expected results. The same strategic pattern applies to managers who come from another functional area, such as sales, marketing communications, engineering or purely operational management. But a company is much more than that: it’s a complex ecosystem that integrates the multi-functional part

How do you choose & implement the right business strategy ?

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How do you choose and implement the right business strategy ?

19 October 2023

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Last Updated on 16 June 2026 at 09:06

In a short blog article published for the newspaper LeTemps, I mentioned that “Corporate strategy is a failure without the operational part“. This longer article details and adds new avenues of exploration, with the description of a mixed implementation methodology. This new article is intended for an informed audience.

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Strategy and the right choices in a business organization

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Implementing a strategy that is realistic, effective and adapted to the digital economy involves the following 3 main elements:

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About Debbaut.Solutions consulting firm

Elena Debbaut has successfully led a number of operational and strategic turnaround mandates for companies in difficulty. A particular passion for helping companies achieve successful strategic implementation on the ground is the secret of her success. Her work and collaborations have appeared on the website of the Swiss newspaper LeTemps, or been published as business books for sale via Amazon, among other distribution sources.

Elena Debbaut

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Elena Debbaut is a strategic execution expert to boards and executive teams. She leads and advises on complex transformations when governance barriers, internal politics, or structural fragmentation prevent organizations from executing critical decisions.

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• operational restructuring
• strategic recovery & execution

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