How to Close the Strategy-Reality Gap

Insight: The Gap Between Strategy and Reality

Momentum for implementation is building. Leaders are setting fewer, sharper priorities.

But momentum isn’t enough - execution doesn’t just happen.

Strategies often fail not because they’re wrong, but because delivery wasn't built in from the start. As Danielle Olsen, Founder and Managing Partner at Opus Group, puts it:

“Clients often think they have a strategy problem. What they really have is a feasibility and implementation problem."

That's the gap our new article explores.

Insight In Practice: Five Principles That Turn Plans Into Results

In How Change Gets Made, we outline five field-tested principles that help leaders move from ideas to implementation:

In the full article, we show how these principles have played out in real projects - from healthcare workforce strategies to airport recovery to childcare reform.

Read the full article here.

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Question to Consider

What would change if you treated the challenge you’re facing as a delivery problem, not a strategy problem?

Quote of The Week

"Delivery isn’t the last step. It’s where you find out if the strategy was ever going to work in the first place."
—Danielle Olsen, Opus Group