An organization is unlikely to achieve sustainable growth if it fails to effectively convert good ideas into sound strategies, and successfully translate those strategies into workable and effective actions which are successfully implemented and executed. Strategies are the statements of how an organization is going to achieve its mission and realize its vision. The strategy statement is a hypothesis of the means by which strategic goals i.e., sustainable growth, are achieved. Goals and objectives provide the milestones for measuring the success of the strategy in achieving the mission and vision. Goals are statements of what needs to be done to implement the strategy. Objectives are specific milestones for meeting a specified goal.  

Ensuring Sustainable Growth and Achieving Competitive Advantage 

​Achieving competitive advantage and ensuring sustainable growth requires an organization to develop the capacity to manage growth and the day-to-day operations activities that create and deliver value to customers while meeting stakeholders' expectations. Developing the capacity to model and visualize your organization's strategies and their outcomes and impact can ensure your organization is free from wasting resources in the development of strategies and plans that never get implemented and executed. Successful implementation and execution of strategies lead to creation of competitive advantages and attaining growth.
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Modeling and Visualizing Your Strategy
Strategies are largely invisible to the organization itself and the people that must intervene to implement and execute them to have value to the organization. Effective execution assumes the existence of sound and successfully implemented strategy, and execution system and model to support management actionable decisions and decision-making. Successful strategy implementation and execution results in organizational change and growth at a number of points such as: in the enabling environment, an organization, and within individuals. 

Strategy modeling and visualization can help improve users understanding of a strategy in terms of its effect on the environment, core strategic issues and factors. This in turn can lead to better assessment of the gaps in organizational capacity to deliver the mission.
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Crafting Sound Strategies
Crafting a sound strategy requires managers to identify problems of strategic relevance through strategic issues diagnosis then formulate appropriate strategies to solve them. 

A model based approach to crafting strategy enables managers and strategists to follow a systematic and coherent approach to discovery and definition of problems to be solved; and analysis and synthesis to inform their decisions and decision-making in formulating /designing sound strategies to solve those problems.

Models of the formulated strategies can be reviewed to ensure they are acceptable to the relevant stakeholders, and evaluated through simulation and visualization to determine the likelihood of the expected outcomes and impact prior to investment in their implementation.
Optimizing Operations Capacity
 Capacity, from an operations perspective, is the limiting capability of a productive unit to produce within stated time periods. Effective capacity is the maximum amount of work that organization is capable of completing in a given time period due to constraints such as quality, delays, material handling, etc.

Organization strategy drives design decisions and development of operations capacity - in terms of design of a tailored Operations System with its competencies - aligned with the competitive position the firm seeks over time. Tactically, Operations Management, is concerned with utilizing the Operations System to provide the best match (fit) of supply with demand to meet strategic objectives. The optimum effective capacity for a particular configuration of an organization's Operations System can be established through simulation.