Prepare for Strategy Delivery with the BIG Readiness Model

Organisations find strategy delivery difficult.

While search engines offer statistics, our own events have provided us very good insights too. In one event we suggested that some organisations seem to expect 'magic to somehow happen'. In other events we highlighted the disconnect between projects (change) and strategy, and in another we highlighted the difficulty balancing change and Business As Usual.

However - we found many people who felt unable to constructively criticise strategy management without criticising the strategy or the person that owns it. There was genuine reticence to raise concerns.

We noted some people could see the need to improve Strategy Delivery - but they don't want a fight, so they keep quiet.

It is understandable how things can just continue along without getting addressed.

Instead of raising direct challenges - or doing nothing - we propose engaging colleagues in reflection of current state using respected principles.

The BIG Readiness Model provides helpful challenge questions and examples of what 'good' and 'bad' look like to achieve a common appreciation of current strategy delivery capability. Do it without making accusations, causing embarrassment or fighting.

Strategy Delivery. How do you picture it?

Seemingly, not many of us can draw the structure of our strategic information, or picture how our strategy management happens, or map the governance of strategy delivery through the organisation. Defining / maintaining a mental model of how strategy delivery works is not an academic exercise. Perhaps one reason why strategy delivery is so problematic is because we don't have realistic information and operating models and therefore we do not really understand our overlaps, collisions, strengths and weaknesses -and are not able to communicate, delegate, prioritise, or control it?

Model Background

We offer the BIG Readiness Assessment to identify the strength and nature of the governing ecosystem around strategy delivery. By identifying what exists, it offers a framework to discuss what is missing. The questions get people thinking and can start the discussion of 'what next?'

Access the Readiness Model

The BIG Readiness Assessment is available for people to take stand alone:, or can be provided in a 'First Steps' to engage key stakeholders: