Challenges of strategy implementation: A case study of Kenya Pipeline Company Limited
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2011-09Author
Mutambuki, Paul M
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The researcher was motivated to undertake this study by the desire and with a general
objective to establish challenges of strategy implementation at KPC. Strategy
implementation is seen as the continuation of the planning process as it turns the crafted
strategic plans into actions to achieve an organization’s objectives. Strategy
implementation is a social and political process in which different interest groups with
conflicting interests and bargaining powers interact each playing its own game. For
effective strategy implementation, the strategy must be supported by an appropriate
organization structure, reward system, organizational culture, resources and leadership.
All stakeholders must support the process while the top management must play a lead
role in the implementation process.
The researcher used a case study design. Primary data was collected through face-to-face
interviews with the aid of an interview guide while secondary data was obtained from
the company strategic plan and periodic reports. The data collected was then analyzed
using qualitative analysis technique. Nine top management level employees were
interviewed and all had over three years experience working with the company.
The findings of the study indicated that KPC indeed faces a number of strategy
implementation challenges; some prosaic to strategy implementation process and others
distinctive to KPC’s nature of operations. The study draws out the conclusion that
today’s and tomorrow’s strategy implementation success for KPC is founded on the
firm’s ability and efforts to establish and sustain relevant preconditions to successful
strategy implementation process.
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MBA ThesisSponsorhip
University of NairobiPublisher
School of Business, University of Nairobi
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Challenges of strategy implementation