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

John Diezemann is a management consultant in Groton, Massachusetts.

List of Figures.

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.