Table of Contents

• PART I:  KEY FACTORS IN STRATEGY EXECUTION    
• Chapter 1  Strategy Execution Is the Key    
• Chapter 2  Overview and Model: Making Strategy Work    
• Chapter 3  The Path to Successful Execution: Good Strategy Comes First    
• Chapter 4  Organizational Structure and Execution    
• Chapter 5  Managing Integration: Effective Coordination and Information Sharing    
• Chapter 6  Incentives and Controls: Supporting and Reinforcing Execution    
• Chapter 7  Managing Change    
• Chapter 8  Managing Culture and Culture Change    
• Chapter 9  Power, Influence, and Execution    
• PART II:  APPLICATIONS    
• Chapter 10  Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work    
• Chapter 11  Making Global Strategy Work    
• Chapter 12  Executing Strategy in Service Organizations    
• Chapter 13  Project Management and Strategy Execution    
• Appendix    
• Index    
  
  

Promotional Information

Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. The Second Edition of Making Strategy Work delivers a powerful framework every leader can use to overcome the obstacles to successfully deploying business strategy. In this book, leading consultant and Wharton professor Lawrence Hrebiniak offers a comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy work in the real world. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience, Hrebiniak shows why execution is even more important than many senior executives realize, and sheds powerful new light on why businesses fail to deliver on even their most promising strategies. He offers a systematic roadmap for execution that encompasses every key success factor: organizational structure, coordination, information sharing, incentives, controls, change management, culture, and the role of power and influence in your business. With three new chapters, expanded coverage, and new examples, the Second Edition of this highly successful book is the definitive guide for turning strategy into action.

About the Author

Lawrence G. Hrebiniak, Ph.D., has emeritus status at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Hrebiniak was a member of the faculty of the Department of Management of The Wharton School for 36 years, where he taught courses in strategic management in the Wharton M.B.A. and Executive Education Programs. He still is very active in the Wharton Executive Education arena, teaching and working with managers in the area of strategy implementation or execution.

Dr. Hrebiniak held managerial positions in the automobile industry prior to entering academia, which provided him with valuable real-world experience. He is a past President of the Organization Theory Division of the Academy of Management. For more than two years he was one of a handful of Wharton faculty members providing commentaries on the Wharton Management Report, a TV program on the Financial News Network.

Professor Hrebiniak’s most notable research of late has been in the area of strategy execution. He has consulted with or participated in executive development work with scores of companies, profit and not-for-profit alike, both inside and outside the U.S. He facilitated many of Jack Welch’s legendary “Work-Outs.” Based on his research and experience with strategy implementation, he developed integrated processes that help make strategy work in different organizations, across different industry settings. He is still active as a researcher and consultant.

Dr. Hrebiniak has authored seven books and numerous professional articles. This book, the second edition of the bestselling Making Strategy Work, reflects his experience as a manager, consultant, and educator in creating a culture of execution and facilitator of the execution process in complex organizations.