AI is AMAZING. But can it do the thing that so many organizations fail at? The hardest part of strategy is not creating one. yes, it’s challenging and requires research, brain power and creativity. But creating strategy is far less difficult than the next step AFTER it is is created. That’s the part where you hope and intend that your strategy will be ALIVE for every employee.
As leaders, we want the strategy to be everyone's frame of reference. It should inform decision making, and help to vet options. But that is rarely what really happens.
Instead, after creating a new strategy, the CEO or executive team do a kind of road show. They teach the strategy (or try to). It includes town halls, emails, memos, videos… or some kind of multi-media series of informational deliveries.
But ultimately, the evangelistic, cheerleading process comes to an end. And then, the only artifact is a set of metrics: OKRs KPIs, a scorecard or something similar. But none of that activates strategy. By activate I mean something specific.
Activation: Strategy is activated when employees are actively using the strategy to vet their choices, behaviors and communication.
In this conversation Francis Wade and I talk about what means to activate strategy for employees—and whether AI can help to do that.
If that sounds interesting, or, if the promo intrigued you, here is the full video.
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