Execution Intelligence

Organisations do not fail to execute because their strategies are wrong. They fail because they commit to strategies without understanding whether they have the organisational capacity to carry them out. Execution Intelligence introduces the discipline that has been missing from strategic decision making. A rigorous evidence based methodology for measuring whether an organisation is genuinely ready to execute before it commits. Drawing on 25 years of transformation experience, behavioural economics, and organisational research, Solomon Nartey builds the case that execution failure is not random. It is patterned, predictable, and preventable. The conditions that cause transformation programmes to underdeliver are identifiable in advance. The gap between how leaders believe their organisations are performing and how those organisations actually experience change is structural and measurable. The tools to close that gap now exist. Through the ARC Catalyst framework this book equips boards, CFOs, PE operating partners, and senior leaders with the science to assess execution readiness across canonical domains, recognise the failure signatures before they take hold, and build the execution intelligence infrastructure that separates consistent delivery from chronic underperformance. Organised in three acts covering the case for execution intelligence, the science behind it, and its application at board, leadership, and organisational level, this book is both an argument and a practical guide. It does not describe what good execution looks like. It provides the framework for measuring whether your organisation can achieve it. In a market where Bain's 2026 Global PE Report confirms that execution is now the defining competitive variable in value creation, Execution Intelligence delivers the methodology the industry has been missing. For leaders who are done with transformation programmes that promise and underdeliver. For boards who want to govern strategy with the full picture. For PE firms where execution capacity is the difference between projected and actual returns.