Organizations devote more time and resources to developing strategies than to implementing, monitoring, or reviewing them. Poor execution of a successful plan will result in failure. Numerous problems arise during the Strategy implementation process because it is often highly individualized. Thus, we sought to examine the effect of strategy implementation on the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises in Cameroon; the study hypothesized a connection between organizational performance and strategy implementation, stressing attention to leadership style, attention to structural adaptation, the effect of human resource, technological requirement, and strategic direction utilizing a descriptive statistics and correlation analysis to test the relationship between variables, closed-ended questionnaires were administered to 140 employees of Moghamo Travel Agency. The findings specified a significant effect of attention to leadership style, structural adaptation, and human resources on organizational performance, strategic direction, and technological requirements, which posed an insignificant influence on organizational performance.

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