“The best-laid schemes of mice and men, gang aft a-gley” – so goes a line in one of poet Robert Burns’ pieces which aptly describes how even the best thought-out plans can still go awry.
“I guarantee you that no matter how wonderful your strategy is, you will not execute it the way you planned,” said Robin Speculand, CEO of Bridges Business Consultancy Int. He was speaking at a recent workshop organised by the UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance Centre. Speculand, a specialist in strategy implementation, has helped governments, multi-national companies, and local corporations like Singapore Airlines to implement their strategies.
Certainly, successful executions of even the most thought-out strategies are fraught with challenges. There are plenty of examples showing how implementation failed because of inadequate preparation or the leadership’s inability to cope with unexpected events.
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