Your organization is aligned today to get exactly the results it is getting.

What changes would have the biggest impact on executing your strategy?

You have defined a strategy to take your business into the future. Now you need the organization to execute it. Despite your efforts in strategic alignment your processes, organization, people, and systems somehow still lack harmony and cohesion. Without an effective way to get strategic alignment it will be difficult to scope and prioritize projects and get everyone on the same path.

Your strategic alignment efforts don't work because they take the wrong approach in connecting your strategy to what your organization has to do to execute it. You need to establish a way to describe what's really going on in your business, what's important to the strategy, and where the performance gaps are. Without this it is difficult to specify how to make the strategy become reality.

When strategic alignment efforts are based on a common business framework then process improvement, human capital, and technology initiatives can be prioritized, coordinated, and measured to quantify the ROI of all change. This allows management to articulate the strategic and operating goals in a clearly understood and actionable way.

Our strategic alignment approach works because it creates a shared business context that empowers people to understand how to execute a clear roadmap for focusing time, money, and energy where they will have the biggest impact on strategic priorities.

Our Strategic Alignment approach covers these topics:
  • The connection between a shared understanding of strategy and increased performance.
  • The secret to establishing a clear business context for selecting, scoping, and prioritizing initiatives.
  • How to connect your strategy and customer value directly to what is done in your business everyday.
  • Three ways to evaluate conflicting objectives in the context of business value.
  • How to free up the insight from within your organization to improve your agility.

"We had struggled to create a common view of our different business units. We had tried other approaches so when this came up I was skeptical. It required some work, but the process created some comfort as we worked through the effort. We were able to create common view of our business across functional areas that provided the framework to align and prioritize our improvement efforts." - S.W., Fortune 500 Logistics company

Frequently asked questions

How can an outsider tell me how to run my business better than the people who work on it?

They can't. However, we can facilitate developing a framework that overcomes the challenges that lead to the structural conflict and fragmentation that keep the best ideas in your business from being evaluated in the context of what is best for the business.

This sounds interesting but I don't want to become dependent on a bunch of consultants.

You will learn the approach and be able to sustain it over time. You can assign the facilitation and maintenance responsibilities to your PMO or someone in your strategic planning group. We can come in to perform occasional check-ups and facilitate difficult situations when and if you want help.

What deliverables do I have when I'm done?
  • A capability model that itemizes what the business does, where business value is produced, and where performance gaps exist
  • Documentation expressing the key strategic themes of the business and a customer value profile
  • Throughput models of key value streams
  • A scorecard to validate the realization of benefits from strategic projects

We have already invested in a strategy mapping or process business management effort.

Any investments you have made will be useful for this initiative. If you haven't received the value you expected from these prior efforts, our Strategic Alignment effort may provide the glue to bring them together.

How long does this initiative take?

This depends on the scope of the project. Often benefits of the effort are produced in 6-8 weeks with two consultants.

Contact us to ask any questions you might have about Strategic Alignment or to set up an appointment to discuss this for your business.

Or, click here to read about our clients’ success and satisfaction in the case studies and testimonials.