Operationalizing Organizational Strategies to Predictively Control Implementational Risks

Achieving higher organizational performance standards entails not merely vivid illustration but also implementation of policies and actions. The purpose of the present study, hence, was to identify risks involved in operationalization of organizational strategies and to offer a pattern to predictively control their occurrence. To achieve the purpose, interviews were conducted with experts in the field to delineate probable risks and the results were interpreted through Soft System Modelling. Further, effective preventive activities to control the risks and promote successful implementation of organizational strategies were explored. Next, factors common in the activities were categorized through Exploratory Factor Analysis into three groups to promote efficient management of strategic operationalization. The findings discriminated probability measurement of strategic implementation, alignment and proportion exploration and implementation of strategies as three effective activities that can control implementational and operational risks. This led to a tripartite-stage pattern of organizational strategy operationalization capable of diagnosing viable flaws of the proposing and implementing strategies.