The Champion is a member of the Planning Team with responsibility for clearing away organizational politics and red tape. The Champions' champion is the CEO who must continue publicly committed to the plan. The Project Manager runs the project from start to finish delivering quality results on time and within budget. Project Managers are special people, sharply different from administrators in preferring one-time assignments managing a team doing things that were never done before. All this adds up to pressure and turmoil.
Time spent planning is returned fourfold.
Successfully implemented action plan projects need special management and lots of it. Each moves the strategic plan closer to its objectives one step at a time.