Capable Company provides the "Rosetta Stone" executives have been seeking: a systematic way to translate strategy into action.

* Gives executives a systematic way to translate strategy into action.

* Helps companies to develop the capabilities that make strategy work.

* Assembles best-practice strategy execution methods from some of the world's most highly-respected companies into a simple step-by-step process.

* Enables leaders at all levels to rapidly focus and align their actions, even as business conditions change.

* Packed with models, key points, practical examples, case studies, self-assessment techniques and templates.

Richard L. Lynch and James F. Dowling are Partners at Results-Based Leadership, Inc. (www.rbl.net).
Rich Lynch the lead author of Measure Up! Yardsticks for Continuous Performance, 2nd edition and Corporate Renaissance: The Art of Reengineering, also from Blackwell Publishing.

John Diezemann is a management consultant in Groton, Massachusetts.

Capable Company provides the "Rosetta Stone" executives have been seeking: a systematic way to translate strategy into action.

• Gives executives a systematic way to translate strategy into action.
• Helps companies to develop the capabilities that make strategy work.
• Assembles best-practice strategy execution methods from some of the world's most highly-respected companies into a simple step-by-step process.
• Enables leaders at all levels to rapidly focus and align their actions, even as business conditions change.
• Packed with models, key points, practical examples, case studies, self-assessment techniques and templates.

List of Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Setting Direction:.

The Capable Leader.

Charting the Course.

Making Strategy Visible.

Part II: Delivering Value:.

Building the Value Exchange.

Forging Customer Relationships.

Part III: Development and Alignment of Capabilities:.

Business Architecture.

Business Archetypes.

Part IV: Speed of Change:.

Tracking a Moving Target.

Refreshing Capabilities.

Epilogue: Governance in a Capable Company.

Suggested Reading.

Bibliography.

Glossary.

Index.