{"id":1300,"date":"2026-10-14T21:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:07:52","slug":"strategies-deliver-63-of-what-they-promise-few-companies-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Strategies deliver 63% of what they promise. Few companies check."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most strategies deliver about two-thirds of what they promise. Few companies routinely check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a survey of 197 companies, Michael Mankins and Richard Steele found firms realized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bain.com\/insights\/turning-great-strategy-into-great-performance\/\">only 63% of the financial value their strategic plans promised<\/a>. Mankins&#8217;s sharper point: <a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/article\/three-reasons-why-good-strategies-fail-execution-execution\/\">fewer than 15% of companies routinely compare how they performed with how they planned to perform<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A plan nobody grades gets rewritten next year, not corrected. The gap surfaces later \u2014 in missed targets, writedowns or an activist&#8217;s letter \u2014 long after the capital is committed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Strategist<\/strong><\/em> is built to make that check routine: an independent strategy for any public company, with management&#8217;s benchmarked against it and every source shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does your team grade last year&#8217;s plan before writing the next one? <a href=\"https:\/\/strategist.intelligenxe.com\">strategist.intelligenxe.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most strategies deliver about two-thirds of what they promise. Few companies routinely check. In a survey of 197 companies, Michael Mankins and Richard Steele found firms realized only 63% of the financial value their strategic plans promised. Mankins&#8217;s sharper point: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1300\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}