Business execution and your business

Execution gap comes from the fact that business today encourage collaboration, openness and democratization of strategy and idea creation. This increases the amount of change inside organization and together with staff driven initiatives creates new challenges of how to execute and prioritize.

Execution

Doing the work efficiently, requires concise communication, clear delegation, and distraction free focus on what is important.

Execution is driven through process that is parallel to emerging ideation and collaboration trends. Collaboration can often act as a source of distraction and musth be recognized as such. Management must not displace traditional hierarchical execution that ensures that strategical targets are met.

Companies that create great ideas must be able to execute through clear task definition, delegation, and distraction free priority execution. 

How Collaboration fits into Execution

The paradox of collaboration is that at some point, someone actually needs to execute and the more collaboration is recognized as valuable work, the higher the risk that collaboration time displaces execution time.

Recognizing this "execution gap" within collaboration driven organization is the basis of Business Execution. Tasks are to be delegated, prioritized, and followed-up within an environment of "collective self-discipline" and a low distraction environment.

Once this execution engine is ensured, then companies must focus on capturing clear, actionable tasks from the democratic and collaborative activities and route them into the execution system.

How Mg Helps you create Execution Focused Culture

Mg seamlessly integrates into your organizations Execution strategy and captures tasks, commitments, strategic goals and meetings.

• Transparent commitment ensures buy in. There needs to be clear acceptance of a tasks with clear deadlines.  Without this ‘negotiation’, there is no commitment.
• Task transparency creates trust. Delegators must be able to see that a task was accepted and be able to see that it was completed as committed. It also creates a positive social pressure to maintain individual self-discipline and keep commitments.
• Mg helps you focus on what’s important. By seeing status of delegate tasks and how they are further split and sub-delegated we can focus our management decisions. Meetings, Wikis, and other collaboration tools are for sharing.  Execution is for focusing and finishing priority tasks.
• Self-awareness and Perspective through Mg tasks. What feels overwhelming is often manageable once it is listed.  Likewise, despite feeling in control, listing tasks and commitment can sometimes reveal over-commitment at a point in time that is early enough to seek help and rebalance.
  Mg displays all of your committed tasks in a single view.  These tasks link to MS Outlook tasks and consequently most other task management tools so you can always have a current, top-level picture of your commitments.
• Successful delegation is core of teamwork. Teams outperform individuals when they have the flexibility to divide tasks. While the most common delegation is leader to staff, the staff-to-staff and staff to leader delegations are just as important.  Without effective delegation, teams add complexity without value.
  In the Mg product, task delegation is not an afterthought—it is a core capability.  Every users of the system can delegate a task for another person, see if that person accepted the task, see if the person completed the task as committed, and even see if the task was broken into smaller tasks and delegated further. Your delegated tasks are as easy to follow-up as your own tasks. Imagine if your managers could all delegate effectively.

Mg Creates an Execution Focused Culture

Collaboration and Strategic design are places where unstructured information and group buy-in are critical.  The switch to execution must have the different values of individual ownership, self-discipline, and collegial trust.  When you are holding strategic meetings or participating in internal forums/wikis, then we are creative, when we use Mg, we are self-disciplined.  Separate tools help manage the balance between the two, sometimes contradictory, management expectations.