Who Owns Strategy? Defining the Mandate That Works

One of the questions that comes up most often in conversations with strategy leaders is deceptively simple: who actually owns strategy?

In many organisations, the strategy function sits in a complex space, between corporate and business unit priorities, between advising and executing, and between influence and accountability. In this recent session with Cascade, we explored what a realistic and effective strategy mandate looks like today, how organisational structure shapes what the function can truly own, and how strategy leaders can build authority and credibility even without direct control over execution.

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