Discover Your Strategy Execution Maturity
The SEM360™ Assessment helps leaders evaluate how well their organizations turn strategy into results and identify where to strengthen execution
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Turn Your Strategy Into Measurable Results
While 70% of strategies fail during execution, a select few organizations consistently turn vision into results. Their secret? The right execution system.
To uncover what sets these organizations apart, we partnered with Workboard and Profit.co to study more than 200 companies worldwide through The Global State of Strategy Execution.
The findings led to the creation of the SEM360™ Assessment — a research-based tool that measures your organization’s execution maturity and pinpoints where to focus first.
By completing the assessment, you gain access to:
- A secure, anonymized benchmark comparison: Understand how your organization’s execution strengths and gaps stack up against top performers — without disclosing any confidential business information.
- A free SEM360™ Pulse Report: See how you compare to our 200-company benchmark, uncover your strategy execution persona, and identify key drivers for improvement.
- A free follow-up call with an expert: Receive a personalized debrief of your results and tailored recommendations to accelerate your journey toward mastering strategy execution.
The Five Dimensions of Strategy Execution
Strategy execution excellence requires mastering five interconnected dimensions simultaneously. Our research with 200+ organizations reveals that top performers outperform others by 20-30 points across every dimension.
The SEM360™ Assessment measures your organization’s maturity across these five dimensions. The three core dimensions — Align, Execute, and Improve — form the foundation for turning strategy into action. The two amplifiers — Scale and Empower — extend that impact across the organization.
Your SEM360™ Pulse Report reveals your performance in each dimension and highlights where to focus first to strengthen your execution maturity.
Align
Creates shared understanding of priorities across the organization. When teams know the “why” and “why now” behind objectives, everyone pulls in the same direction.
Scale
Helps successful practices spread across the entire organization. Strong governance, training, and systems ensure that what works in one team can work everywhere.
Execute
Turns plans into measurable outcomes through clear ownership and rhythm. Weekly reviews, defined accountability, and quick problem-solving keep everything moving forward.
Empower
Empowers teams with autonomy and real-time data. Teams that focus on outcomes instead of tasks make faster decisions and deliver better results.
Improve
Creates a culture of continuous improvement. Retrospectives happen every cycle, lessons get documented and shared, and each iteration builds on the last.
A Global Leadership Perspective
SEM360™ is built on insights from over 200 senior leaders across 30 countries. Their experience, captured in The Global State of Strategy Execution 2025, revealed what separates top performers from the rest.
Strategy Execution Leaders align faster, collaborate better, and sustain impact through clarity and rhythm. Your SEM360™ Pulse Report benchmarks your organization against these Global Leaders to show you how to reach them.
Strategy without execution is just a dream
Every year, organizations invest millions in crafting perfect strategies, only to watch them fail in implementation. Teams drift out of alignment, priorities shift without clarity, and accountability becomes a guessing game. The result? 70% of strategies never deliver their intended outcomes.
But there's a way forward
After working with 800+ organizations and analyzing data from Fortune 500 leaders to high-growth startups, we’ve identified what separates execution champions from the rest. Organizations that master strategy execution are 1.5x more likely to outgrow their competition and exceed their financial goals. They move faster, adapt better, and consistently turn ambitious goals into measurable results. The difference isn’t talent or resources – it’s having the right execution system.
The SEM360™ Assessment helps you understand how close your organization is to that level of maturity. It pinpoints where execution breaks down and highlights the actions that will move you toward measurable success.
See Your Strategy Execution in Action
When you complete the SEM360™ Assessment, you’ll instantly receive your personalized Pulse Report — a clear snapshot of how your organization executes today.
Your report highlights your maturity scores across the five dimensions of execution and benchmarks your results against top-performing organizations. It shows where you’re strong, where execution breaks down, and which areas offer the biggest opportunity for improvement.
It’s your starting point on the path to strategy execution mastery.
What Is SEM360™?
Execution maturity is an organization’s ability to turn strategy into consistent, measurable results.
It reflects how well teams align, deliver, and adapt across five key dimensions — Align, Execute, Improve, Scale, and Empower.
The SEM360™ Assessment measures these capabilities and reveals how close your organization is to world-class execution standards.
Who Needs This?
The SEM360™ Assessment is designed for leaders responsible for driving strategic outcomes:
CEOs and executive teams focused on performance and growth.
Chiefs of Staff and Heads of Strategy guiding cross-functional alignment.
Transformation leaders building execution systems that scale.
What You'll Discover
Your SEM360™ Pulse Report provides a data-driven snapshot of how your organization executes today.
You’ll see:
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Your maturity level across the five execution dimensions.
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How you compare to top performers worldwide.
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Where to focus first to strengthen execution and accelerate results.
Six Paths to Strategy Execution Maturity
Every organization follows a unique path toward stronger execution. When you complete the SEM360™ Assessment, your Pulse Report reveals which of the six Strategy Execution Personas best reflects your organization today and what it takes to advance to the next level.
Find out where your organization stands and what it takes to close the gap.
Download the Global State of Strategy Execution Benchmark
Benchmark your organization against 200+ companies worldwide
In collaboration with our partners Workboard and Profit.co, we’ve built the most comprehensive view of strategy execution maturity to date.
Download the Global State of Strategy Execution Benchmark to see how leading organizations perform across the five key dimensions, and identify the personas and roadmaps that drive success.
Curious where your organization stands? Take the SEM360™ Assessment to compare your results directly with the benchmark and receive a personalized improvement roadmap.
57% of Execution Leaders
exceed their financial goals year after year by building systematic execution capabilities
83% of Top Performers
grow faster than their industry average through aligned teams and disciplined delivery
We use SEM360™ to give our customers a clear view of their strategic execution maturity and pinpoint growth opportunities. It helps understand the bottlenecks in execution and align everyone in what needs to be done differently to improve strategic performance.
Marga Lenten
Managing Director, StationOKR
Our Portfolio & Strategy Operations team loved the clarity and focus of SEM360™. It sparked the right conversations. We now have a blueprint to make governance, ownership, and measurable outcomes standardized across portfolios.
Lola Planas
Global Ops Portfolio Leader, Givaudan
SEM360™ has enabled us to ground our view of strategic execution in objective evidence. It can serve as a compass for an organization to identify where it needs to improve in order to execute its strategy more effectively. We move from a debate of opinions to a clear, shared snapshot of our strengths and areas for improvement. It is a real lever for engaging the whole team and prioritizing our actions.
Matthieu Pépin
Agile & Transformation Leader, Décathlon
With the SEM360™ diagnostic, our clients finally connect strategy to customer outcomes. We walk in with evidence, not opinions, and leave them with a 90-day value plan tied to real user metrics. It makes change adoptable, fast, and visible to their customers.
Raphaël Kattan
Deputy Director, Talenco
The Strategy Execution Maturity Spectrum
Most organizations score between 40-70 on the maturity index (57%), while only 11% are Strategy Execution Leaders . Another 13% struggle with basic practices, scoring below 40. This distribution shows a clear pattern: basic strategy practices are common, but the discipline to execute consistently separates the few from the many.
The SEM360™ Assessment reveals exactly where your organization falls on this spectrum across the 5 dimensions of Strategy Execution and what to focus on to move closer to execution excellence.
Foundations
Little strucure for goal execution.
uncliear ownership, inconsistent
progress tracking
Strategy Execution Leaders
Seamless execution with clear ownership, measurable value and consistent leadership support to address blockers
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The Global State of Strategy Execution Benchmark
The Global State of Strategy Execution benchmark reveals how over 200 organizations worldwide turn strategy into results. It identifies what top performers—just 11% of companies—do differently across five dimensions: Align, Execute, Improve, Scale, and Empower. A data-driven report to compare, learn, and improve execution maturity.
The CEO Guide to Strategy Execution
The CEO Guide to Strategy Execution helps leaders turn strategy into measurable results. It introduces the Strategy Execution Maturity 360™ model—built from work with 500+ organizations—to assess and strengthen five key dimensions: Align, Execute, Improve, Scale, and Empower. A practical roadmap to close the execution gap and drive impact.
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