Hans-Christian Riekhof, The Six Levers of Strategy Implementation: Plan - Execution - Success, 1st edition, Schäffer-Poeschel 2010, ISBN978-3791026251

Hans-Christian Riekhof, The Six Levers of Strategy Implementation: Plan – Execution – Success, 1st edition, Schäffer-Poeschel 2010, ISBN978-3791026251

How are strategies successfully implemented? This question occupies every company, but is often neglected in literature and training practice. The application-oriented guide provides a remedy: In a compact form, Riekhof shows the six levers with which executives succeed in implementing theoretically developed strategies in practice.

The tools of strategy implementation that have been tested for years include the strategy profiles, the strategy-appropriate resource use and strategic reporting, but also the strategy-appropriate management development, the strategy-appropriate organizational design and the internal marketing for the strategy.

Review

“German business literature is also always a mirror of the prevailing attitude in the German working day. Hans-Christian Riekhof cannot escape this either, despite his countless borrowings from American business practice. The Germans seem to have a preference for focusing almost exclusively on deficits and their remediation. However, the US management guru Henry Mintzberg, often quoted by Riekhof, shows that the topic of strategy can be described with liveliness and motivation without leaving a feeling of lack. But with this book too, the reader makes an excellent choice. Because Riekhof succeeds in one thing with flying colors: maximum depth on very little space. Compact, always with a view to concrete company practice, the author answers all questions on the subject of strategy. Peppered with case studies, his book is easy-to-consume specialist literature. getAbstract recommends the book to all entrepreneurs, managers and business students who recognize the necessity of a carefully planned business strategy and are looking for the decisive tools for its implementation.”