The Best Strategy Execution Software
#1 – Impruver
Description: Built on the principles of behavioral science, The 4 Disciplines of Execution, and Toyota KATA, Impruver is the best Strategy Execution software available. With Impruver, you can eliminate Annual Performance Reviews, Execute Strategy, and create a culture of Continuous Improvement all in one stroke. Impruver applies the following principles of execution:
- Focus – each person delivers against one goal at a time
- Personal Commitment – plans or tasks are not delegated; people personally commit to achievement
- Empowerment – leaders coach for learning, execution, and progress
- Rewards and Recognition – people are rewarded immediately for their achievements; size of award is appropriate to the size of achievement
These principles not only deliver world class strategy execution, they also create a thriving culture of Continuous Improvement.
Setting up, deploying, and using Impruver is incomparably simple. The learning curve on Impruver from end-to-end is less than 5 minutes. Initial setup takes all of 3 minutes and regular updates are done in less than 30 seconds. However, the outputs are phenomenal.
Impruver is the only Strategy Execution Software that applies the behavioral science of one-piece-flow of targets and goals from the C Suite to the Frontline. Each person is limited to one goal at a time. The next goal is determined immediately after successful completion of the previous as validated by their immediate manager. This maximizes company agility and flexibility, drives quality of execution, improves alignment and clarity to what’s wildly important to improve, and enables quick and frequent coaching cycles for accelerated talent development. Impruver is unique in that it respects the fact that transformation is not a straight-line journey to success; but an iterative process that maximizes organizational learning at each step toward the true north. It moves your company away from unreliable strategic plans to one where learning is embedded into each step toward the target.
Every Impruver customer is paired with a Certified Executive Coach who meets with leaders on a regular schedule to quickly diagnose opportunities and support as appropriate along the way. Lastly, Impruver also offers the Impruver Accelerator to certify leaders and Continuous Improvement coaches to help others achieve more challenging goals.
Core Feature Set:
Metrics, Analytics & Reporting
Digital Action Board
Certificates of Achievement
Strategy Deployment
Root Cause Analysis
Performance Tiles
Coaching Chat
TV Display
I absolutely love it! Impruver leverages the science of improvement to transform the culture. For the amount of benefit this system produces and the ease of getting started, you’d have to be crazy not to give it a try.
Price:
$1,000 per month – unlimited users
Block pricing model
Economies of scale for larger companies
Web/Installed:
Cloud / SaaS
Mobile:
Yes
Support:
24/7 Chat / Email
Business Hours – Live
Q&A Forums
How-to-videos
User Certification
Professional Services
Webinars
#2 – Cascade
Description: Cascade is a robust strategy planning and execution platform that allows users to create a strategic plan and visualize progress against it. Cascade uses a “plan and project” style of strategy execution, driving action to anyone engaged in the system. Easily create KPI’s, track results, and track actions to continuously monitor progress against the strategic plan. Also, get notifications as “interesting” things happen along the way.
One unique feature that Cascade offers is a visual map of strategic priorities which shows which areas of the plan are at risk of failure. It’s overall approach to strategy execution is centralized where a single person or small team delegates work and drives strategy for the enterprise as one would drive completion of a project.
Core Feature Set:
Create Plans
Visual Workboards
Create Projects
Create Goals
Dashboards & Reporting
Cascade Maps
“Innovation is such a huge focus for us and it can be very hard to know when/where innovation is happening. Cascade allows us to pinpoint where innovation is taking place.”
Price:
14-day Free Trial
Teams: $720 annually per person
Enterprise – Not Listed
Web/Installed:
Cloud / SaaS
Mobile:
Yes
Support:
24/7 Chat / Email
Business Hours – Live
Professional Services
Webinars
Conferences
#3 – Rhythm Systems
Description: The Rhythm System comes in 3rd in our list of best Strategy Execution software. It’s user-friendly interface helps users set targets, track metrics, create projects, and provides a visual representation of how each person is performing against their goals. The Rhythm System also includes an easy-status-update interface that allows users to “check off” action items quickly so they can be prepared for team meetings.
They Rhythm System allows users to set up targets based on the user’s position with the company, which corresponding with periodic review cycles. Executives set annual targets, upper managers set quarterly targets, lower managers set monthly targets and frontline workers set weekly targets.
Customers also get access to a live Rhythm Systems coach who can help develop and drive strategy for your company.
Core Feature Set:
SWOT Analysis
Annual Plan
Track KPI's
User Status Tracker
Set User Priorities
Campaigns
“The results were amazing. Virtual planning gave us the flexibility to transform out in-person 2-day planning sessions into shorter highly focused deep dive sessions addressing critical important topics over 3 half days”
Price:
Not Listed
Web/Installed:
Cloud / SaaS
Mobile:
Yes
Support:
24/7 Chat / Email
Business Hours – Live
Professional Services
Webinars
#6 – i-Nexus
Description: i-Nexus is a comprehensive platform that helps create strategic plans, delegate action items, and track progress of plan execution. It is a project management-style strategy execution system that provides several tools for creating and managing action plans. i-Nexus proves overview dashboards for executives to get a quick snapshot on how well things are going. It provides a suite of tools for practitioners to do analysis and create more plans, and easy interface for frontline personnel to provide updates.
i-Nexus boasts the capability to help companies facilitate Continuous Improvement events while connecting activity to the strategic plan. The software’s central feature is the x-matrix (aka box matrix), which helps translate strategic goals into objectives, projects, and ultimately action items.
Core Feature Set:
Performance Dashboard
X-matrix
Create / Manage Projects
Assign Action Items
RAID Logs
Submit Improvement Ideas
Price:
Not listed
Web/Installed:
Cloud / SaaS
Mobile:
Yes
Support:
Not listed
#4 – Achieveit
Description: Achieveit provides a useful user dashboard that quickly answers the question: how are we doing with our plan? It facilitates project-style strategy execution where targets, plans, and actions are delegated and driven through to completion.
Users have the ability to see filter to see progress by plan or person across department, geographic region, or business units. Reports can be programmed to be distributed automatically so that people can prepare for progress update meetings in advance.
Achieveit even goes as far as to provide Ghant Charts to minimize conflicts with resource utilization. This is a great tool for a strategy program manager who needs real-time visibility into strategic progress so that at-risk actions can be followed-up and driven to completion.
Core Feature Set:
Dashboards & Reporting
Action Item Tracking
Create Annual Plans
Ghant Chart
“It’s so difficult for hospitals to keep up with how they’re doing…because they’re using manual tools and processes. AchieveIt, through automating those processes and making it very easy to focus on their initiatives, ensures that those important items continue to be worked on throughout the course
of a year.”
Price:
Small team – $840 per person annually
Large team – $960 per person annually
Call for Enterprise pricing
Web/Installed:
Cloud / SaaS
Mobile:
Yes
Support:
Not listed
#5 – KPI Fire
Description: KPI Fire comes in at #4 on our best Continuous Improvement software list. Although KPI Fire is branded as a Strategy Execution Software, it helps deliver strategy through the application of Continuous Improvement efforts. This software cascades strategy downward and metrics upward to show real-time progress. The system also engages users in submitting ideas for improvement, which can be implemented based on their impact and relevance to strategy. Lastly, users with winning ideas can then be recognized for their contributions.
Core Feature Set:
Deploy Strategy
Suggest Improvement Ideas
Dashboards & Reporting
Idea Prioritization
Create Projects
Problem-solving Templates
“KPI Fire has helped our team to collaborate on CI projects while keeping management up to date. It is a key component of our Lean management system.”
Price:
Not Listed
Web/Installed:
Cloud / SaaS
Mobile:
Yes
Support:
Not listed
Strategy Execution software is now being adopted across the world’s leading companies including Nestle, Mars, Flex, Thyssen Krupp and so many others. With 90% of strategic plans failing, largely due to poor execution, companies are realizing that the old methods of speadsheets, powerpoint decks, emails, and informal conversation is grossly inadequate for wielding the kind of change that they seek. Jack Welch said “If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.” In today’s fast-moving business environment, companies are learning that their competitive advantage lies in their own ability to execute strategy. In other words, now is an excellent time to start exploring the best Strategy Execution Software currently available on the market.
In our assessment, Impruver is the standout leader among the field. It is a newer player in the space but truly a breakthrough product. While the others are good for centralized project managers to drive strategic tasks the same way one would lead one big project, this approach is limited to the power that one or a small group of people could wield onto an entire organization. Impruver’s approach is to decentralize strategic execution to give every single person in the company a larger stake in successful execution. It moves away from outdated practices of command and control to one of engage, empowerment, develop, and reward results. With Impruver you could essentially eliminate Annual Performance Reviews, execute strategy, and drive a culture of Continuous Improvement all at once.
Impruver also applies the latest developments of behavioral science and organizational effectiveness to drive meaningful and sustaining change. This post on the 4 Immutable Laws of Transformation provides some of the key discoveries that support this behavioral science. Lastly, Impruver helps drive a culture of Continuous Improvement, applying core concepts such as Hoshin Kanri, one-piece-flow of goals, and using AI to suggest improvement ideas based on the specific user’s improvement agenda.
I hope this article has helped you wrap your mind around the options available for the best Strategy Execution software. There are several other’s available in the market but unfortunately did not make the cut for the 6 Best Strategy Execution Software. Please share this article as appropriate.
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