One Strategy Organization, Planning, and Decision Making

This book is about developing and executing great, innovative strategies. It shows general managers how to build the right organizational capabilities and base of understanding, how to generate insightful strategies and develop detailed plans, and how to lead these strategies to completion.

This book challenges traditional views of strategy and operational execution—views that say strategy comes from a small group of select people or that an innovative strategy can only emerge from a distinct organizational spinoff. Aligning a complex organization around one strategy requires all members of a team to participate—learning, sharing, communicating, and contributing to the team's success. One Strategy provides a unique combination of real-world experience managing a large-scale organization with academic research in strategy and innovation to describe what it takes to align an organization around one strategy, manage its execution, and reach for "strategic integrity." One Strategy describes how to drive innovation by connecting the potential of strategic opportunities to the impact of operational execution.

Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky joins his twenty years of management experience at Microsoft with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti's twenty years of research on strategy and innovation to provide you a unique perspective on strategy development, alignment, and execution. Here, Sinofsky shares his experiences and point of view through an internal blog site that discusses some of the management processes put to work while developing Microsoft Windows 7. Through his own words, One Strategy focuses on the team's mission to develop and maintain a strategic vision through the 4,000 person, multi-year project. Marco Iansiti creates a framework that can be used by business leaders across industries and job functions, building on his original research in the development of innovative products.

Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person insight found in One Strategy.

Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy.

Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book-written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-describes how you can drive innovation by connecting the potential of strategic opportunities to the impact of operational execution.

• Lessons from the unique combination of real-world experience managing a large scale organization with academic research in strategy and innovation
• Reveals what it takes to align a complex organization around one strategy, manage its execution, and reach for "strategic integrity"
• Written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-a combined forty years of management and research experience
• A unique perspective on strategy development, alignment, and execution

Drawn from Sinofsky's internal Microsoft blog where he communicated some of the management processes the team put to work while developing a 4,000 person, multi-year project-Microsoft Windows 7-One Strategy shares the hard-won insights you can use to successfully make the leap from strategy to execution.