Business unit strategy: enterprise solutions group

Abstract

“Strategy is a commodity; Execution is an art.” Peter Drucker. Every organization has a strategy that can be replicated but its execution is what determines the success or failure of the organization. As Porter (1996, p. 73) notes, “It is harder for a rival to match an array of inter-locked activities than it is merely to initiate a particular sales-force approach, match a process technology, or replicate a set of product features”. Achieving this inter-locking of activities among the inter-dependent sub-systems of an organization should be the goal of an effective strategist.