Catalyst Strategic Consultants - What is Doug Bouey thinking about these days?

Re: The Implementation Pipeline

New Plans/ New Resolve

We tend to come back from summer fired up with new intentions for our businesses. Maybe we don’t want to let the time to Christmas go by without making certain changes or capitalizing on opportunities. We generate strategic projects to execute.

The Change Agenda

Every growing business has a line up of strategic projects - improvements [or radical adjustments!] from “ordinary course of business” to a better way. Time has to be carved out to execute new product or service offerings, better processes. Many businesses find this a bugbear. In the urgency of the everyday, these get lost, submerged.

Here’s a picture of what we’re talking about:

Here are some questions for you.

Is your senior team clear on the status of projects: what’s in the pipeline, just a “good idea – we should do that sometime” or not being pursued?

Are your projects moving to full integration or are there half digested changes not delivered?

Is the importance of execution clear enough? Is potential lost opportunity cost being minimized?

If “no” to any of the above, what are you going to do about it?

Our implementation pipeline program accelerates the execution process. We help the senior team get clear on what it means to adopt a project, how to drive it through, what full and satisfactory conclusion looks like building speed and completion of priorities.

Every organization has an implementation pipeline. If yours has a bad case of blockage or you’re losing heart, we can help.

Doug Bouey