LEVERAGE ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNTMENT
AND
ALIGNMENT LEVERAGE POINTS
Alignment is one of the key characteristics of
high performing organizations.
What is organizational alignment?
We understand organizational alignment
as a realistic state of an organization
where various organizational components
support each other and contribute to
the achievement of organizational goals.
Why is organizational alignment important?
More aligned organisations
perform better, are more innovative, creative and agile than less aligned counterparts.
results in spending more company resources, failure of strategic initiatives, less agility, and less adaptation to the changing environment.
Misalignment
Recognition of current misalignment,
even if it persists, leads to positive results.
Why are organizations not aligned?
and it is difficult to see how alignment occurs.
Organizations are in flux
Alignment tools and models
only partially help align organizations, they do not include all organizational dimensions and/or all connections between those dimensions and/or connections across all organizational levels.
Organizations acknowledge importance of alignment but because of its complexity their alignment state leaves much to be desired.
Complexity
Counterintuitivity
Misalignment can be counterintuitive and is often not seen by top management.
How can we help organizations align?
We propose to use the method I developed to identify alignment gaps and alignment leverage points. This method visualizes chains of misalignments whose counterintuitive details are hidden even from the executives of the organizations tested. The method can be adapted and applied to organisations with different contexts and structures, and complex organisational structures are not an obstacle to the implementation of the instrument.
Who will benefit?
The alignment tool can give valuable insights for organizations facing alignment problems. It can be used for checking organizations for misalignment and for detecting alignment leverage points after reorganization, restructuring, change of ownership or other big changes when misalignment often takes place. It can be used by consultant companies as an additional means of organizational analysis of complex organizations.
How often the method can be used?
It may be used once or regularly, e.g. once a year, to keep alignment under control.
What distinguishes this method from other alignment tools?
The method is a very powerful visualization tool for explaining alignment in an organization.
The method is designed to address the complexity of an organisation with all the links between and across all dimensions and levels of the organisation.
the method helps detect counterintuitive misalignment details in organizations.
The method is an inexpensive analysis tool that can be applied without involvement of consultants, if it is not being used for the first time.
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