Creating Alignment
Ensuring alignment -- or FIT -- among talent, strategy, structure and systems is a key success factor for leaders. When people, strategies, structures, or systems get out of sync, organizations falter.
- Individual performance problems surface.
- Silos develop and functional teams work at cross purposes.
- Communications and decision-making bog down.
- Staff and management lose focus.
- Organizational results are not commensurate with the investment of time, effort, or financial resources.
When leaders bring talent, strategy, structure and systems together in harmony, organizational effectiveness soars. They create a positive cycle of energy and accomplishment. They can achieve:
- Peak individual & team performance
- Innovation & collaboration
- Coordinated decision-making and action
- Market leadership & growth.
The diagnosis requires a clear look at the leadership and management of the organization and its strategy, culture, systems, and structure. Just as important, however, is to look at each of these in relation to each of the others.
- A good strategy will only work, for example, if the organization has the right people working together in the right way to make it happen.
- The most effective structure for an organization depends on the strategy of the organization and its people.
- Management selection and development should not be done in the abstract but rather specifically in the context of the organization’s strategy, systems, and structure.
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