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Strategy-Driven Delivery

Aligning Organizations, Programs and Projects

Helen Winter, Jon Wrennall

Close the gap between strategy and delivery with this practical guide for project, programme and strategy professionals.

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EAN: 9781398630666

Edition: 1

Published: 03 May 2027

Format: 234 x 156

264 pages

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About the book

Strategy-Driven Delivery is a practical guide for senior project, programme and strategy managers who need to close the gap between strategic intent and successful execution.

Written by experienced transformation experts Helen Winter and Jon Wrennall, this book shows why strategy fails in practice and how to design programmes and operating models that ensure delivery success. It provides a clear, structured approach to aligning projects with business goals while enabling trust, accountability and effective decision-making at scale.

Drawing on real-world examples across financial services, IT and software development, this book equips you to:
- Design programmes aligned to strategic business outcome
- Build operating models that enable effective delivery
- Embed governance that supports trust and decision-making
- Overcome stalled progress and delivery challenges
- Apply AI and automation to modern project environments

With practical frameworks and forward-looking insight, Strategy-Driven Delivery helps you lead complex transformation with clarity, control and measurable impact.

Themes include: strategy execution, programme management, transformation leadership, operating models, project governance, AI in project delivery

About the authors

Helen Winter is a business analysis, transformation and project management expert. She has over 20 years of experience leading large-scale transformation and complex change. She is the author of The Business Analysis Handbook published by Kogan Page. She is based in Cardiff, UK.

Jon Wrennall is an experienced technology executive. He is the Chair of Unzer, a fintech payment solution company and has served on numerous boards. He has over 30 years of experience in transformation projects. He was the first CTO for HRMC and is based in London, UK.

Helen Winter

Jon Wrennall

Section - ONE: Why strategy doesn’t deliver;
- Chapter - 01: Why strategy fails in practice;
- Chapter - 02: What we mean by an operating model (and what organization miss);
- Chapter - 03: The gap between strategy and delivery – why better design can close the gap;
- Chapter - 04: Transformation programmes and the delivery of strategy;
Section - TWO: Designing for strategy success;
- Chapter - 05: Value creation – how to deliver quantifiable and sustainable outcomes;
- Chapter - 06: How commercial reality and governance can support effective delivery;
- Chapter - 07: Designing delivery as a system;
- Chapter - 08: How culture and accountability shape delivery;
- Chapter - 09: Using AI and automation to improve delivery;
Section - THREE: Making strategy delivery stick;
- Chapter - 10: Mobilising and embedding delivery;
- Chapter - 11: Leading delivery through the hardest phase of change;
- Chapter - 12: Measuring what matters and keeping delivery on track;
Section - FOUR: Designing for what comes next;
- Chapter - 13: Why the way we work has to change;
- Chapter - 14: Sustaining delivery and ongoing change at scale