Effects Of Selected Factors On Strategy Implementation In Nigeria

Managing strategy implementation requires well-orchestrated management procedures beyond the normal course of business routine to make it happen. Hence, for organizations and businesses to realize the audacious ambitions set out for their strategies, they need to skilfully and carefully manage the way the strategy is to be executed. Strategic leadership style is one of the significant factor found to influences effective strategy implementation. However, most of previous strategic leadership studies on strategy implementation are based on the single-actor or 'hero' leader. Hence, this study conceptualized strategic leadership to consists of networks of actors; an approach that has something to do with distributed leadership. Organizational innovativeness is another factor that influences organizational strategy implementation. Innovation is rapidly becoming a key strategic implementation driver for organizations as we advance further into this century. Embracing and execution of a new idea in an organization, despite the time of its adoption is expected to result in an organizational change that might affect the success of organizational strategy implementation.