Alignment Leader®: An Organization Transformation Champion
Studies have shown that having Alignment Leaders is key to a successful organizational transformation. Use these critical change management techniques to further your success.
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Commander’s Intent: The Key to Project Engagement
Clearly expressing a project’s purpose, the sought-after results, and the acceptable risks to take or trade-offs to make in reaching the end goal is a proven strategy to increase worker engagement and initiative.
Resource Management Critical to Maintaining Strategic Alignment
To keep up with the rapidly evolving global markets, it is essential to make smart–but often hard–decisions and trade-offs about where to allocate resources.
Change Partner as Coach: A Crucial Role in Change Transformation
By asking good questions and relating appropriate stories and experiences, a change partner can help leaders make the best decisions to keep their organizations on track to successful change transformation.
How to Structure Your Agile Organization Design Team
To fully benefit from an Agile organization design effort, you need effective teams and means of engaging stakeholders and customers. True to Agile principles, your team should be customer-centric, flexible enough to respond to market changes, and capable of producing design “products” that you can test and implement immediately. But,
Why Resource Choice Matters in Organization Transformation
Resourcing is a perpetual challenge organizations face in driving transformation. Sooner or later, every transformation leader will find him or herself in the position of needing specific talent or resources other than those which are normally under their control. When this happens, they must look elsewhere for those resources. Not
Building Internal Capability in Organization Transformation: 2 Keys to Success
Often, organizations look to outside partners to assist with organization transformation. This is natural, as organization design and change demand specific skill sets that are not always readily available within an organization or easily hired. However, the opportunity also exists for organizations to build these capabilities internally. There are many
How Organization Design Can Facilitate Growth
Almost all organizations are actively looking for growth opportunities. While growth is not without its challenges and downsides, the positive aspects of growth are compelling enough to drive most organizations to commit a great deal of effort and resources into seeking and pursuing opportunities for profitable and sustainable growth. Most
Developing Organization Design Capability in Alignment Leaders® (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article, we discussed the process of building organization design capability in change partners. Now, let’s examine the role of the alignment leader in organization design, and how to assist an alignment leader in building organization design capability. Why Alignment Leaders Need Organization Design Skills To remain
How Healthy is Your Organization?
A healthy organization is efficient, resilient, and supports positive relationships both internally and with its external stakeholders, with all parts operating effectively toward a common goal. Organizational health is a measure of how well a company functions, as well as its long-term viability and potential for growth. Just as symptoms