Insights: Organizational Alignment

Do You Know Why Your Organizational Costs Are Rising?

The costs associated with organizational alignment deal with two functions:  coordination and administration.  Coordination costs include resources dedicated to facilitating information sharing, knowledge transfer, and communication.  These resources may comprise teams, committees, […]

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Organizational Alignment: The Importance of Information Flow

A company’s organizational alignment to its strategy depends largely on management’s ability to access information to make decisions and take action. Clearly, without access to the right information, the organization cannot operate […]

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Is Your Organization Aligned with Your Strategy?

Strategy execution requires the organization to align with the strategy. The reason is that execution is the collective result of thousands of decisions and actions by employees at the grass-root level. For […]

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Strategy Execution: How Are You Measuring Organizational Alignment?

Organizational alignment needs to satisfy two performance objectives.  The first is to adapt the organization to the market and its ever-changing conditions. We refer to this objective as market adaptation.  In addition, […]

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The Importance of Explicit Accountabilities

Accountability is the foundation that defines how we commit to activities, track our performance, behave in a team, relate when mishaps occur, and the level of responsibility we take for getting things […]

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Organizational Alignment: Why Clear Decision Rights Matter

The decisions involved in the execution of strategy usually require the organizational alignment of many people.  For large organizations, the responsibilities of decision-making can span several departments working in collaboration.  Lack of […]

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Organizational Alignment: Why Fewer Layers of Management Are Better

Organizational alignment can help with the execution of strategy.  A well-designed organization typically aims for a lean structure that can reflect the strategy closely.  The lean organizational design builds on few management […]

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