Getting Aligned

Draw on all this analysis to develop a plan for aligning your organization. If you are repeatedly frustrated in your efforts to get people to adopt more productive behaviors, step back and ask whether organizational misalignments might be creating problems.

ACCELERATION CHECKLIST

1. What are your provisional observations about misalignments among strategy, structure, systems, skills, and culture? How will you dig deeper to confirm or refine your impressions ?

2. What decisions about customers, capital, capabilities, and commitments do you need to make? How and when will you make these decisions?

3. What is your current assessment of the coherence of the organization s strategy? Of its adequacy? What are your current thoughts about changing your organization s strategy?

4. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the organization s structure? What are you thinking about potential structural changes?

5. What are the core processes in your organization? How well are they performing? What are your priorities for process improvement?

6. What skills gaps and underutilized resources have you identified? What are your priorities for strengthening the skills base?

7. What are the functional and dysfunctional elements of the culture? What can you begin to do to change the culture?