Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It

During the last thirty three years CC Pace has served our clients in a wide range of business and technology projects. While clients generally bring us in at the beginning of a project, others find a need for our expertise mid-stream. At times we have also been called into a project after considerable amounts of time and dollars have already been invested, only for the client to find the project nearing collapse and help is needed to try to turn the project around and salvage their hopes for ROI.

In the following article in the Harvard Business Review Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes and Charles Sull have done an exceptional job of debunking the common myths behind why projects fail and the reality of what is required in order to ensure effective execution. Based on our experience, the Harvard Business Review has done a great job summarizing the key to project execution: successful coordination.

https://hbr.org/2015/03/why-strategy-execution-unravelsand-what-to-do-about-it