This file: Strategic-Operations Planning Relationship contains vitally important information that all business owners should be well aware of. I have written extensively on the same subject matter in my first book.
Lack of understanding of the functional relationship between strategy formation and operational delivery is (in my view) a major reason why so many Kiwi businesses are failing. The importance of practicing both disciplines and the logical connection between these disciplines is explored in a good amount of detail in Strategic-Operations Planning Relationship.