Jim Collins seems to have some very rich data in his books Good To Great and Built to Last , although there may not be much "Strategy" referenced. At least he identified the non performers, you may also look in on some of his Harvard resources.

I think it will be difficult finding the information, everyone wants to slow down to look at the accident, but no one wants to be one. People do not easily share thier failures, maybe that is why we keep repeating them as corporations.

Repeating them as corporations?!?!? How about repeating failures as humankind...? Humans, as a whole, are almost incapable of learning from past mistakes and failures. We have continually made the same mistakes over and over throughout history and I highly doubt that will ever change.

Is there a strategy for not doing this? Well our leaders constantly get voted in, government and corporate, with new strategies and maybe they work for a period of time, but inevitably we revert back to bad history repeating itself. How come "good" history doesn't repeat itself like bad history? Or am I just focusing on the negative?

I agree with the previous response that nobody wants to report on failure. Imagine a leader actually having the courage to admit being wrong in today's environment, I don't think so...

I apologize if I'm off topic, maybe someone pee'ed in my coffee this morning...:)

Look into the work done by Daryl Conner, principal of Conner Partners. He has an extensive amount of work on strategy execution and change management.

The Stanford Advanced Project Management Program covers this topic in its course on "Converting Strategy Into Action." A couple of reference books are Bossidy on "Execution" and Gerstner on "Why Elephants Can't Dance."

While the course can't quote data, it outlines the strategy, structure, culture, and projects that need to be in alignment. One objective is to get attendees to start the conversation with colleagues--and even their managers--about what it takes to improve performance in executing strategy. Follow-on courses provide more detailed steps and practices.

Randy Englund, www.englundpmc.com