Closing the gap between strategy and execution is where strategy execution success takes shape. While strategic plans often emphasize financial and customer objectives, they frequently overlook critical operational layers - processes, people, and technology. This creates a strategy execution gap that hinders performance and delays results.

Closing strategic gaps begins with clear alignment: identifying the operational objectives needed to support strategic goals and establishing a cause-and-effect relationship between operational objectives and stategic goals. Through focused gap analysis in strategic planning, organizations define key measures, track improvements, and proactively address the risks and barriers that block execution.

Inteq’s proven approach enables organizations to bridge the gap between strategy and execution in weeks - not months - by translating strategy into actionable, measurable operational objectives.

Whether you're tackling a strategic gap or strengthening execution discipline, our approach delivers clarity, alignment, and momentum.

Consulting Approach and Deliverables

Working with your team, we provide our strategy execution experience and expertise, including best practice tools, techniques, and methods, to facilitate high-intensity, short-duration, sprints to rapidly map strategic objectives to operational objectives.

Deliverables include

> Strategy maps depicting the cause-and-effect relationships among and between financial, customer and operational strategic objectives
> List of appropriate measures to track operational objective improvement
> List of risks, problems and barriers that might hinder achieving operational objectives.

Who From Your Team Should Participate
Mapping strategic objectives to operational objectives typically includes a balanced mix of:
> Decision makers responsible for executing strategy within each layer of the organization
> C-level and senior leadership team
> Divisional/business unit leadership and management
> Functional/department management
> Any additional stakeholders that can provide additional insight into closing strategic gaps.