Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Strategy formulation success does not guarantee successful strategy implementation. It is always
harder doing something (strategy implementation) than saying you are going to do it (strategy
formulation). They are way more different in each other.
Management Perspectives
Annual Objectives
Building up annual objectives serves as guidelines for action, directing and channeling efforts and
activities of organization members. It should be measurable, consistent, reasonable, challenging, clear
communicated throughout the organization, characterized by an appropriate time dimension and
accompanied by commensurate rewards and sanctions. It also requires to be compatible with
employees' and managers' values and supported by clearly stated policies.
•Are the major instrument for monitoring progress toward achieving long term objectives
It refers to specific guidelines, methods, procedures, rules, forms and administrative practices
established to support and encourage work toward stated goals. They provide a basis for management
control, allow coordination across organizational units and reduce the amount of time managers spend
making decisions. It also clarify what work is to be done and be done by whom and promotes delegation
of decision making to appropriate managerial levels where various problems usually rise.
•Company Strategy
-Supporting Policies
•Divisional Objective
-Supporting Policies
-Supporting Policies