A useful guideline in instituting policies and procedures to facilitate good strategy execution is to

make certain there is ample funding and personnel to ensure strict policy enforcement$--$strictly$-$enforced policies work better than policies that are loosely or inconsistently enforced.

prescribe and tightly enforce policies and procedures that leave no room for discretion in performing value chain activities$--$employees should have no leeway to do things in a manner that deviates from the company's established policies and procedures.

always establish a comprehensive set of policies and procedures$--$a complete set of policies$/$procedures that thoroughly covers all the various situations provides clear and unambiguous guidance to company personnel about how things need to be done.

prescribe enough policies to give organizational members clear direction and to place desirable boundaries on their actions, then empower them to act within these boundaries however they think makes sense.

establish no more than $5$ pages of policies and procedures$--$a thick policy manual is confusing and stifles individual initiative; properly empowered employees do not need a maze of rules and regulations to constrain their efforts to do things in a manner they believe best