Strategy and Culture - The Secret Ingredient for Successful Enterprise Strategy

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Strategy and Culture - The Secret Ingredient for Successful Enterprise Strategy - Cascade Strategy.
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Presentation by Regina Perkins at Cascade's Engage Conference 2019 - Portland Oregon.
Here's a quick synopsis of the presentation:
Leaders and their teams too often develop strategies absent consideration for the culture within which they operate. Strategies cognizant of culture enable leaders to realize transformational change. In this discussion, Regina Perkins of The Clearing, Inc. -- a Washington, D.C. based strategic consultancy -- will discuss the five key conversations to building successful strategies and how culture underpins all of it.
When looking at organizations who are successful at strategy implementation, their leadership teams are often aligned around five key conversations: the current state of the organization, the environmental constraints that act against them, what is at stake for the organization if the status quo persists, the desired future state, and the strategy that will move the organization from the current to future state.
However, the alignment of those five conversations is not enough. With a shared perspective to the desired future state and the strategy to achieve their objectives, leaders must intentionally account for culture and introduce and enact their strategy within that context. Defined as the line that separates the behaviors that are tolerated from the behaviors that are not tolerated within an organization, culture is the biggest off-balance sheet asset an organization has.
Culture dictates what plans, strategies, and ideas get enacted. Strategy absent consideration for culture will fail to realize its full potential to create impact and stimulate meaningful change. Drawing upon deep experience helping organizations develop and implement successful strategies, this talk will explore how culture underpins any successful strategy implementation. We will discuss what leaders can do today to enact a culture shift that advances their own strategy.
Here's some background info on Regina for your reference:
Regina Perkins is a leading organizational consultant, master facilitator, executive advisor, strategic planner, and change agent. Her primary focus is working with executives and leadership groups to effect strategic change, transformation, and growth within organizations.
She specializes in partnering with senior executives to shape and achieve their visions. This work includes leadership development and coaching, organizational assessment and development, performance management and measurement, large-scale facilitation and training, and strategy design and execution. Ms. Perkins has successfully partnered with senior leaders for more than 25 years in federal, commercial, non-profit, and international organizations.
She employs a wide range of disciplines and methodologies to assist organizations with developing and implementing transformational strategies that engage and empower stakeholders. These partnerships have resulted in significant increases in strategic alignment, communication, collaboration, and innovation leading to improved performance and realized business results.

[@reubenkisigwa1371]

Very powerful insights on how strategy as a whole (formulation to implementation) goes wrong when we fail to acknowledge and leverage organizational culture; the role of culture, its hold on the process and need to redefine it in terms of relevance, various levels and types of people engagement thus tying implementation to formulation...……..very appropriate for the contemporary leader.

[@ExecutestrategyNet]

Thanks for your comment Reuben! Great point!

[@felixnatercsc3653]

Regina Perkins nailed the topic for me from a mutually supportive strategic and cultural philosophy. What better way to get the needed buy-in than creating a practical, insightful approach that’s designed around building organizational trust, engagement and commitment. Her pull rather than push methodology is a sound practice in creating the mindset needed to influence the outcome by managing behaviors. Organizational engagement through organizational understanding and buy-in has to be intentional by positive attitudes. It is a very powerful point of view that adds to additional tools in one’s tool kit. Such thinking creates the compelling drive needed for organizational investment. Key is the involved role of leaders who lead the mindset, give examples of why it’s important and act as facilitators. I love Ms. Perkins’ insight and practicality.

[@joseantoniojose7933]

Ok Mrs. Cascade Strategy, was a helpfull summit which gave me good tips to have a good development. Thanks Mrs. Regina Perkins because was a so good and interesting summit.

[@abdulazizalkhouri]

Great lecture! Especially with creating the increments and sense of urgency through 90 days plan

[@AbbasBadran]

Great lecture... Did you guys post this slide online?

[@ExecutestrategyNet]

Yes we do!
www.cascade.app/reginas-presentation-slides