Factors Influencing Strategy Implementation

Strategy has its historical roots in military activities from the early times of Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu, through to the Italian philosopher, Niccolo Machiavelli. Organizations initiate strategies to survive and achieve competitive advantage. Strategy implementation is how a firm creates the organizational arrangement that allows it to pursue its strategy most effectively in order to create sustainable competitive advantage. It is the manner an organization develops, utilizes and amalgamates organizational structure, control systems and culture to follow strategies that lead to competitive advantage and better performance. The strategy implementation process involves application of management process to obtain desired results by designing organization structure, allocation of resources, utilizing information for quality decision-making and effective management of human resources. This study had two objectives namely to establish the factors influencing strategy implementation at Kenya Commercial Bank Limited and secondly, to determine the influence of such factors on strategy implementation at Kenya Commercial Bank Limited.