Abstract:
The main problem in strategic planning debate is not the formulation, but its implementation and execution. The main purpose of this research is to design a model for implementation and successful execution of strategies in hierarchical organizations. In term of goal this research is applied because it seeks for a framework to help implement and successfully implement a strategic plan. The method of collecting information from this research was library studies and conducted a deep interview with experts in field of the study. The methodology of this research is multi-grounded, so that after the stage of library studies, the variables related to implementation and execution of the strategy found in literature, identified by content analysis and grouped in two groups of individual and organizational factors. Based on these factors, an initial model provided. Then, using results of in-depth interviews with 30 experts (snowball method was used for sampling) familiar with the strategic management and planning, a model based on the factors based on interviewees have been developed. In this model also the factors are grouped in two levels: individual and organizational. The final model developed based on the combination of theoretical literature model and the model derived from the interviews and is presented in the form of a model consisting of the successful implementation and execution of strategy, as well as the results of its implementation and execution at the individual and organizational levels.
Machine summary:
The method used in this research was multiple grounded theory, such that after the library study stage, variables related to strategy implementation and execution were identified and extracted from the literature and research background using the content analysis method in the form of two categories of individual and organizational factors, and an initial model was created based on them.
2- Literature Review and Research Background According to Harrison and John 1, (1994), strategic management is a process through which organizations analyze their internal and external environments and gain knowledge from them; in addition, they lay their strategic path, create strategies that help them reach the set goals, and put those strategies into action [3].
With the passage of more than a few decades since the study of factors and obstacles related to strategy implementation and execution, various researchers, by expressing their views, have examined the issues and problems related to achieving strategic management goals in the form of two different levels: tactic and operation.
Vafa Ghaffarian, in his doctoral research titled "Investigating the causes of strategic planning failure and providing an approach to improve the effectiveness of strategies in Iranian industrial organizations," stated the factors affecting the effectiveness of strategic formulation and execution based on Table 1 [10].
Therefore, in this research, an attempt was made to identify and extract, while distinguishing strategy implementation from strategy execution, the factors affecting each of them, as well as the consequences resulting from the successful implementation and execution of strategies in hierarchical organizations in the form of individual and organizational levels.
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