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What Happens When Everything in the VCP Is a Priority?

A VCP can contain a set of individually sensible initiatives that become much harder to deliver when they run at the same time.

The same leaders, teams and functions are often needed across several priorities, creating competition for resources, management attention and decisions.

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Can the organisation actually deliver the plan?

Value creation plans are becoming more ambitious, but how often do we test whether the organisation can actually deliver them?

A plan can make financial and commercial sense while placing too much demand on the same people, teams and resources at the same time. We have been looking at how the demands of a strategy interact with an organisation’s ability to deliver it - from leadership capacity and cross-functional dependencies to decision-making, resources and the amount of change underway.

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