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What if the Strategic Implementation process is not going as planned?

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As you are monitoring your implementation process, you might find it is not going as well as you had hoped. Several options are available to you at this point. If you feel both your strategy and the tactics you are using to implement it are sound, you can simply change your schedule to buy yourself more time. Just be sure you don�t miss your �strategic window� � that period of time during which the strategy will best work.

If extra time won�t solve the problem, consider your procedure. Do you need to go about implementing your strategy in a different way? Also consider the people you have at work. Are they the right people in the right places? Would it be better to seek expertise from outside the company? Don�t be afraid to adjust your tactics to help the process run more smoothly.

Lastly, if none of the above methods help rectify the situation, consider changing your strategy altogether. While this is never easy, it may be necessary. It might not be that you adopted a �wrong� strategy to begin with as much as it is that your organizational environment has changed � either internally or externally. Take a good hard look at your strategy and implement sound managerial judgment to determine whether or not it stays.

Here�s something to keep in mind as you consider the best course of action to take. If you feel you have been doing the right thing in the wrong way, then it is time to simply change your tactics. But if you feel you�ve been doing the wrong thing altogether, then consider changing your strategy. It�s better to make the distinction now rather than later.

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