That once the bright folks who create the strategy set a direction, its all about executing the plan.
He said the strategy set the direction for the whole of the public sector to work together more effectively and collaboratively to maximise their impact on securing new opportunities, jobs and investment to communities.
Ms. Whitman: Listen, the CEO of every company, it's their job to drive strategy to set the future course.
He has neither given the American people an economic plan, strategy or set of concrete proposals that anybody has heard or understood.
This means we have to have a strategy, set priorities and understand that we all have to make some sacrifices for the future.
This country needs an industrial strategy to set it back on the path to economic growth by capitalising on our greatest strength: innovation.
Mr Prescott's integrated transport strategy, set out in a white paper last year, was hailed as the most fundamental shift in policy for a generation.
The committee said the primary responsibility for the downfall of HBOS lay with Sir James, who was the "architect of the strategy that set the course for disaster" and Andy Hornby, who succeeded him in the top job and "proved unable or unwilling to change course".
This was the start of a strategy that would set Lycos apart from portals such as Excite and AltaVista.
The firm says his business strategy was to set up in front of Woolworth and to sell customers "what Woolworths don't stock".
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Mark-up to mark-down is a pricing strategy whereby retailers set regular merchandise prices high and then turn around to offer customers discounts.
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Coke set strategy, dictated overall advertising and supplied concentrated syrup to its bottlers, in many of which it has significant minority stakes.
Ghosn relies on an executive committee of six people at Renault and seven at Nissan to help him set strategy and, more important, to execute his plans while he is away.
But it requires these executives to see their task and themselves in a different light: corporations are not there to set strategy, but they simply exist as investment vehicles, with the senior executives as its managers.
Ringleaders set strategy and execute with precision.
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If the CIA director "can't move the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, can't set strategy, can't bring the subtleties of a judgment to the decision makers, then you've got to change the structure, " said Feinstein, an Intelligence Committee member.
In its corporate strategy the FSA has set itself six "outcomes" to deliver by 2015.
Police and crime commissioners will have powers to hire and fire chief constables and set police strategy and budgets.
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Obviously that's helpful in the discussions that have to be had and in the strategy that will be set.
And for Direct Edge, it's a greater ability to customize your trading strategy with a broader set of products and services.
Set the strategy, but allow others to choose their own tactics.
The government set out a strategy last year to treat more people in the community.
Police and crime commissioner (PCC) Kevin Hurley has set out his strategy for his time in office.
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He set a new strategy for the firm after extensive discussions with the Board, the senior management team and well respected outside consultants.
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However, the strategy was based on a set of policies, operational concepts, technological advantages, and assumptions about adversary behavior that were subject to change.
He exercises in a swimming pool and on a bike between Monday and Thursday, and only joins the rest of the squad on Friday to go through tactics, formation and set-piece strategy.
Led by Bill Bain, the group wanted to set up a strategy-consulting firm that would not just give its clients a thick report on what they needed to do and then depart.
The prime minister's own advisers are working on similar ideas, and I know of one influential Tory minister who has also told the chancellor the time has come for the Tories to set an industrial strategy.
Mr Miller said it had been a "tough environment" for the past four or five years, but the company had set out a strategy to deal with it and was now seeing the fruits coming through.
As if to stress that it is stronger than ever, British government sources say a new joint US-UK National Security Strategy Board is to be set up headed by Sir Peter Ricketts, the prime minister's national security adviser and Tom Donilon, his White House counterpart.
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