The Strategy Deployment Process

The board signed the plan. Now the business has to deliver it.

A strategy becomes useful when leaders can turn it into commitments, measures, decisions, and a calendar they keep. In The Strategy Deployment Process, Bill Canady explains the work that begins the morning after the signature.

Follow a deployment year at Tamarack Cold Systems, a composite commercial refrigeration manufacturer. Its invented people and illustrative numbers let you follow one plan through charters, catchball, monthly reviews, recovery decisions, and the next annual reset.

The book shows you how to:

- Answer five questions on one page: what, how far, how, how much and when, and who.

- Use the X-Matrix, initiative charters, and catchball to turn targets into written commitments with conditions and resources.

- Cascade the plan to the leaders who can move the numbers, then turn milestones into tasks with owners and dates.

- Phase the bowler by month, compare plan, actual, and prior year, and set thresholds before the results arrive.

- Write a Root Cause and Countermeasure when performance misses, with an owner, a due date, a recovery path, and a rule for closing it.

- Give monthly and quarterly reviews different jobs: recover performance in the month and test the strategy at the quarter.

Practical Do This sections, worked instruments, and a glossary help CEOs, initiative owners, and the person running the review rhythm put the system to work. Later chapters examine the small signs of drift and the discipline of resetting the year.

The Strategy Management Process explains how to build the plan. This book explains how to deploy it. Each stands on its own.

Includes a Field Guide sampler. The complete companion workbook, with blank working pages and additional facilitation material, is a separate publication.