ICA, a large grocery company, is facing many exciting opportunities and challenges. To be able to adapt to rapid changes in the market and create flexibility, ICA has introduced agile working methods in several parts of the company. This interview will cover their...

Ulf Arnetz, the author of the book Strategy Acceleration, is passionate about trends affecting business strategy execution. In this post, we'll explore business agility.   What does the future look like? Which of the trends of today will have taken hold in the...

Strategy acceleration is all about the company’s future survival and the ability to choose the right way towards success. This blog post is about money. We will demonstrate how capitalization—i.e. the ability to make money on the strategy execution—is faster with...

To succeed means “to keep going” with the strategy acceleration, to not give up when there are setbacks, and to find energy and motivation to keep improving. If you've read this far in our blog series you have the knowledge and tools to truly accelerate your...

We described in an earlier post what an acceleration meeting is, how it should be conducted and what the benefits are. In the acceleration meetings, everyone records the weekly outcome (preferably in Howwe) and the team can immediately see their own progress. The...

How do you create conditions and ensure that the planned activities are executed according to plan? Read on to find out!  It is important to get started as quickly as possible with the activities that have been defined as most important. Execution starts as soon as...

We are often asked about the need to prioritize the two most important initiatives and goals — what about all the other things we are supposed to be doing? “We have a lot of other goals to achieve. If we don’t we will not succeed”. There is a feeling that we have to...

In strategy acceleration, we talk about anchoring instead of communication. Anchoring means ensuring that the people that will execute the strategy really understand why—and above all, understand their own role and contribution to this work. It is important that the...

After reading the previous post, you know that you first need insight, followed by a decision. The next step in the process is to create a plan to accomplish the work — the acceleration plan. We will outline how to create one and what it should contain. We will also...

Let us talk about insight. That is where strategy acceleration starts; with the insight that there is a need for a new strategy. It is not always a new strategy that is needed. It can also be the existing strategy that needs to be accelerated or that parts of it are...