Implement & Cascade

Implement and Cascade Strategic Plans

Move to collective action.

While they all start with good intentions, the business landscape is littered with failed strategic plans and unsuccessful strategic change initiatives.

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“Having taken on a new executive leadership role, one of my first calls was to LSA Global to help my leadership team to design, implement, and cascade strategic plans.  First, LSA helped our leadership team identify the strategy, culture, and talent areas that mattered most to create organizational alignment.

Then they helped facilitate the design of a strategic growth plan that is clear, compelling, believable, and implementable. We now have 100% commitment from the leadership team and key stakeholders going forward.

I would recommend LSA to anyone who wants to create high levels of strategic alignment, growth, and performance.”

Erik Arvesen | Vice President, General Manager | Harris Corporation

“LSA has a powerful strategy process that helped our executive team navigate through our core strategic objectives. The approach was practical and valuable for our unique business and market.

I would recommend LSA to any leadership team looking to push their ability to define, implement, and cascade strategic plans to the next level!”

Blake Krikorian | CEO | Sling Media

“LSA was able to create strategic clarity and alignment with a group of physician leaders and administrative dyads to help an entire division make critical decisions affecting our future.”

Dr. Robert Osorio M.D., FACS | Chair, Barry S. Levin Department of Transplantation | Sutter Health

Once the strategic direction has been clearly articulated, communicated, and agreed to by senior management, it is time to implement and cascade the specific strategic plans, actions and metrics throughout the organization.

This is no easy task. While they all start with good intentions, up to 9 out of 10 strategic initiatives are unable to fulfill their promise due to poor implementation and weak follow-through.

Top 5 Challenges to Implement and Cascade Strategies
For a strategic plan or any change initiative to make a true difference, it must be properly executed and cascaded throughout an organization.  Our clients report five common challenges to effectively cascade their strategies:

  1. Some strategic goals seem either irrelevant or out of the control of my department.
  2. It is unclear which strategic objectives and components are mandated, guided, or autonomous by corporate.
  3. Something important to my department is not included.
  4. Some goals or strategy success metrics are in conflict with my department’s goals or metrics.
  5. The level of clarity, believability, or implementability is not high enough to properly cascade across the organization.

The Impact of Strategic Ambiguity
Ineffective leaders create strategic ambiguity among the ranks which leads to:

If you or your organization is experiencing any of the above symptoms, look no farther than strategic ambiguity.

Effective leaders create conditions of strategic:

These conditions allow people to develop and contribute their maximum effort toward achieving a collective and meaningful purpose.

Please contact us if you want to better implement and cascade your strategic plans throughout your organization.

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We got great value from the executive strategy session.  We would not hesitate to use LSA again with our Executive Leadership Team.

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Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer

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I can’t emphasize enough what a huge shift you helped to create for us as an organization. Thanks again for your change management consulting help and guidance.

The clarity, practicality, focus, and accountability are exactly what we needed to make this strategy and major transformation a success from a hearts and minds perspective.

Cris Alvarez
VP Corporate Strategy

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The LSA customized Organizational Alignment Survey gave us a comprehensive view of how our employees experience our culture, talent, and strategy.

The systemic approach provided us with a great forum to discuss the strengths and opportunities in our organization, and then to quickly get focused on the key actions critical to executing our business and people strategies.

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General Manager, FSM Division

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LSA has a tremendous ability to distil complex, multilayered challenges into meaningful, impactful, and clear strategies and action plans.

The time we invested as a leadership team to get aligned was well spent in gaining laser focus and identifying ways to prioritize what was meaningful individually and as a team. The facilitation and leadership style was direct, firm, and compassionate.

LSA provided the high level thinking and support for our team to co-create in a rapidly scaling business.

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You have become our premier change leadership strategic partner. Your expertise in the human side of change is unparalleled and enabled our company to successfully implement our ERP Solution under challenging and ever-changing circumstances.

Thank you for your practical and outcome-oriented approach.

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The strategy and alignment work with our leadership team was absolutely transformational.  The decisions we made combined with the transparency, communication, and accountability were exactly what we needed.  Thank you!

Dr. Raphael B. Merriman M.D
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

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Having taken on a new executive leadership role, one of my first calls was to LSA Global to help my leadership team to design, implement, and cascade clear strategic plans.  First, LSA helped our leadership team identify the strategy, culture, and talent areas that mattered most to create organizational alignment.

Then they helped facilitate the design of a strategic growth plan that is clear, compelling, believable, and implementable. We now have 100% commitment from an aligned leadership team and key stakeholders going forward.

I would recommend LSA to anyone who wants to create high levels of strategic alignment, growth, and performance.

Erik Arvesen
Vice President, General Manager

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LSA was very thorough during all phases of our customer service strategy process.  Their time spent with management and our employees went very well.

LSA’s insights were very powerful, and their suggestions for the future were very valuable.

I can’t think of any phase of the process that wasn’t first class.

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Great job in designing the Mergers and Acquisition strategy session for our global leadership team. The session was excellent.

I gained additional insight on the importance of the role of HR regarding strategy, culture, and people in Mergers and Acquisitions and would recommend LSA to anyone looking to align strategies and cultures.

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We recently hired LSA to help us take our client delivery methodology to the next level as we continue to grow and help our clients succeed.

The custom strategy and design session exceeded our expectations. They really understood our business and delivered within tight time frames. They were the best I have seen for this type of complex, visible, and strategic work.

LSA’s ability to get a group of 20+ executives from around the globe on the same page, push their thinking to new heights, and ensure an executable plan was excellent.

I would recommend LSA to anyone looking to take their strategy and strategic execution to the next level.

Rob Sturgeon
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LSA worked with our Executive Leadership Team to help create strategic clarity and alignment as we look to increase our growth rate and unlock innovation.  They masterfully handled very complex, challenging, and high stakes leaders, decisions, and cultural nuances to help us identify what matters most and move toward one unified direction.

Their practical, straightforward, and client-centric approach to strategy was refreshing.  I highly recommend them to any executive team looking to get aligned to create even higher performance.  They are lights out awesome!

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I highly recommend LSA to any executive team looking to better organize and more effectively deliver key executive-level messages — especially when the stakes are high.

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Working on our HR Strategy was so eye opening.  I feel so much better prepared to be successful as a leader individually and collectively.

Now the entire HR leadership team can drive our growth strategy forward in a way that makes sense.

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At a time of change in our marketplace, LSA Global did an exceptional job helping our executive team create strategic clarity by helping us to define, clarify, and prioritize our corporate vision, mission, values, differentiation, target clients, strategic priorities, success metrics and key roles.

They beautifully navigated a very difficult and fuzzy situation, respectfully cleared out all of the cultural elephants, and shared impactful insights and leadership development theories along the way. They have transformed our business.

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Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant.  The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

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