Planning and Execution Approaches

This week’s topics

Planning and Execution Approaches

1. Strategic alignment of change initiatives
2. Agile versus programmatic change implementation
3. Resource allocation and timeline roadmaps
4. Project management methodologies
5. Developing a Strategy for Execution
6. Navigating from Strategy to Implementation
7. Business Strategy 12 - Strategy Implementation: Strategic Projects & Initiatives

What you will be able to do

• 1.2 Evaluate the models or approaches used in planning and implementing organisational change in an organisation.
• 2.2 Suggest the issues to consider when implementing change at an organisational context.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate the models or approaches used in planning and implementing organisational change in an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

• Developing a Strategy for Execution · YouTube · MIT Sloan Management Review · 61 min · for registered students
• Navigating from Strategy to Implementation · YouTube · MITSDM · 58 min · for registered students
• Business Strategy 12 - Strategy Implementation: Strategic Projects & Initiatives · YouTube · Ajarn Olli · 23 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Principles of Management, ch. 10.2–10.3: Organisational change and managing change · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 278–298 · for registered students
• MIT OpenCourseWare 15.904 Strategic Management II (Fall 2005) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
• Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019), ch. 10: Information Systems Development · PDF · Other, textbook chapter · for registered students