To convert strategy into reality, you will need a bunch of skills. If you are a large organization, you can afford to have specialists run a Program Management Office (PMO). If you are a smaller organization, you will need to learn these skills and follow a DIY approach.
This book is perhaps the best documentation of the fundamentals required for strategy execution. It lays out the six imperatives needed to identify strategy and the units of work. There is a science and art to organizing the units of work, be efficient, stay coordinated, and most important, be nimble and agile when your context of execution changes.
Those who can define strategy will always be valuable. But even more valuable are those who can execute your strategy. Those who can do both will be priceless.