Strategy Alignment - Can you afford to have your strategy fail?
One of the most common difficulties companies face in strategic planning is turning the vision into a reality. To transform an organization takes more than great strategy.
The single most common attribute of organizations that are consistently effective at executing strategy is that their employees are clear about the strategy from the beginning. In these organizations, employees and managers are fully aligned. Aligning everyone in the organization with the strategy is one of the most important things you can do beyond formulating a great strategy.
Alignment will make it much easier for your management team to push the organization in the direction you intend. Without alignment, forward motion will be a struggle.
Our Strategy Alignment survey quickly and clearly illustrates management and employee alignment. We answer these critical questions:
Are senior managers and employees on the same page?
To what degree are your employees engaged and committed to the strategy?
This survey covers 35 business disciplines tied to three critical areas:
Organization Strategy: The survey assesses the strength of and commitment to the organization's mission and its vision for the future. It measures the organization's understanding of customer/client needs, internal capabilities, and the ability to plan and execute programs and services.
Organization Design: The survey evaluates the organization's infrastructure and how all areas of the business interrelate, as well as core competencies and communications.
Organization Culture: The survey measures the organization's values, beliefs, leadership, teamwork, systems and procedures.
The results provide immensely valuable information about the extent to which there is agreement from key constituencies across the business. This gives leaders the opportunity to objectively evaluate and, if necessary, reshape the strategic agenda.