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Strategic Agility: The Art of Piloting Initiatives

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The Art of Piloting Initiatives

In today’s increasingly volatile and uncertain environment, strategy execution is all about speed of learning and making the right resource allocation decisions.

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In today’s increasingly volatile and uncertain environment, strategy execution is all about speed of learning and making the right resource allocation decisions across a portfolio of business efficiency and growth initiatives.

To learn quickly, piloting these initiatives is critical before scaling as early and quick learning enables successful execution. Pilot selection is one of the early decisions to be made and should not be underestimated.

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Piloting de-risks strategy implementation.

Piloting de-risks strategy implementation.

Learning from pilots and then making decisions about resource allocation is key to gaining strategic agility.

Learning from pilots and then making decisions about resource allocation is key to gaining strategic agility.

Don’t underestimate the early decisions of making choices about where to pilot. This is key in enabling successful strategy execution.

Don’t underestimate the early decisions of making choices about where to pilot. This is key in enabling successful strategy execution.

Advance Praise

“In an increasingly volatile and uncertain business environment, fast learning and swift resource allocation are critical for successful strategy execution. Piloting initiatives before scaling, for example, can accelerate the learning process in a relatively safer environment. Early selection of the right initiatives to test, therefore, has become essential for strategic agility.”

Adolfo Orive

President & CEO, Tetra Pak

“Don’t underestimate the early decisions of making choices about where to pilot. This is key in enabling successful strategy execution.”

Chris Johnson

Executive Vice President Nestlé S.A.

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About the
Author

Bettina Büchel is an IMD Professor of Strategy and Organization. She focuses on strategy implementation, new business development, strategic alliances and change management.

At IMD she has led both public programs such as Orchestrating Winning Performance, Strategic Leadership and TransformTech and works with CEOs on leadings strategic transformation programs for companies such as AGC, Hempel, Orkla, Tetra Pak to build capabilities and drive towards the implementation of strategic priorities.

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