Change Management

Aligning your strategies

One of the biggest challenges facing any leadership team is getting alignment between the functional strategies. Strategy maps provide a way in which this alignment can be made. They also can provide a useful link to creating a balanced scorecard. The strategy maps work on four levels.

1 Finance:what are the overall financial objectives?
2 Customer: share are the customer goals?
3 Process: or operational goals
4 Learning and development: what are the people related goals?

In using these categories it is possible to show the cause and effect relationship between a development strategy and a financial goal.

This ability to connect the various business areas and their strategy means that the whole business system can be considered. The approach also works in not for profit organizations where the financial goals can be performance related.

It is often helpful to think about the business as a biological system where each component has an impact on one or more of the others. This biomimetic thinking helps avoid conflicts between departments such as sales and operations.

Biologize you business uses biomimetics coupled with strategy maps to help businesses get joined up thinking. It starts with the MRS GREN diagnostic. Contact crew@Thoughtcrew.net to find out more

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