Episode 80 – Execution-Aware Strategy: Dan Marquez and Craig Overmars
How do you bridge the gaps between Strategy and Execution, and how do you evolve execution as strategy pivots? That are the questions that are the topic of our podcast this week – the first of two episodes of a collaboration with the “Strateg-ish” podcast, run by our friends Craig Overmars and Dan Marquez, who has been a guest on our show before.
This episode looks at strategy with the perspective that an architect might have – how is it done, what are the outcomes that one can align to, etc. In the second episode, which will be out on the Strateg-ish channel soon, we discuss the opposite side of this: what can strategists expect and what do they have to know when they are doing their work and expect it to be implemented.
Both, Dan and Craig, have a background in strategy and worked in various consulting organizations and are now working in this field at Google.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- Dan’s and Craig’s backgrounds
- What is “strategy” anyway (definition)
- How can it be developed in rapid-pace organizations?
- The process of strategy development
- The kind of artifacts that one can expect as an outcome of the development
- The typical timeframe of a strategy development project
Craig and Dan can be found on LinkedIn (of course) and their “Strateg-ish” podcast can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3h5l2eefFGb9YtPvUVnsDn?si=f8c690a4b197408a.
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Additional information
- Dan has been a guest on the show before:
Credits
Music by Jeremy Voltz, www.jeremyvoltzmusic.com
- CP1 (Welcome)
- Cowbell (Interlude 1)
- Wurly (Interlude 2)
- South Wing (Outro)
Roland Woldt is a well-rounded executive with 25+ years of Business Transformation consulting and software development/system implementation experience, in addition to leadership positions within the German Armed Forces (11 years).
He has worked as Team Lead, Engagement/Program Manager, and Enterprise/Solution Architect for many projects. Within these projects, he was responsible for the full project life cycle, from shaping a solution and selling it, to setting up a methodological approach through design, implementation, and testing, up to the rollout of solutions.
In addition to this, Roland has managed consulting offerings during their lifecycle from the definition, delivery to update, and had revenue responsibility for them.
Roland has had many roles: VP of Global Consulting at iGrafx, Head of Software AG’s Global Process Mining CoE, Director in KPMG’s Advisory (running the EA offering for the US firm), and other leadership positions at Software AG/IDS Scheer and Accenture. Before that, he served as an active-duty and reserve officer in the German Armed Forces.
