Four steps to help you get started with your implementation
Too rarely do we realize the full impact of new reforms, strategies, policies and projects in the public sector. There is often a focus on the launch of these when it comes to implementation in Denmark. At the same time, we see that there is an unfortunate tendency to underestimate how important it is to continue to the top of the IMPLEMENTATION STAGE in order to reach the goal and achieve the full effect of a thorough implementation.
The purpose of the IMPLEMENTATION STEP (Justesen 2019) is to provide decision-makers, project managers or leaders in a municipality or region with a basic knowledge of what it takes to ensure successful implementation, as well as to contribute with a tool that makes it possible to assess how to work correctly to successfully implement a given reform, policy, project or strategy for which you may be responsible. A key reason why you should use the IMPLEMENTATION STEP as a starting point in your work is that it allows you to get an overview of what effects are actually possible to achieve.
How to successfully move from strategy to implementation
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Strategic, cross-functional or in-depth changes will often be the most important for an organization, but also the most difficult to implement. Many links in the management chain need to be coordinated up, down and across. It's up to you and your colleagues to translate good intentions into new behaviors and relationships. This is difficult, partly because management's focus can quickly move on to the next project and the next initiative. Implementation lags and the benefits are not realized. The implementation staircase is one of the tools we teach and which you can benefit from using.
