TY - JOUR AB - The linkage between strategic planning and daily activities within an organization is often obscure. Perhaps as a consequence, many well‐developed strategic plans fail to be implemented, and required goals and objectives are not attained. Strategy deployment processes link strategic plans with implementation activities. Instead of investing more time and energy in improving planning or implementation processes, an organization should first examine the deployment processes used to link strategic plans with action – “deployment processes” may be the missing link in the strategic management system. This paper studies the application of formal strategy deployment processes within three US federal agencies. The strategic management literature provides the basis for the deployment processes analyzed in this study. Following the analysis of each individual case, an overall assessment of existing supporting and restraining forces that should be considered when working to improve deployment processes is discussed. VL - 14 IS - 3 SN - 0951-3558 DO - 10.1108/09513550110390837 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09513550110390837 AU - Hacker Marla E. AU - Kotnour Tim AU - Mallak Larry A. PY - 2001 Y1 - 2001/01/01 TI - Formalizing deployment processes in the US Government T2 - International Journal of Public Sector Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 221 EP - 240 Y2 - 2024/05/13 ER -