Comprehensive Program
Our comprehensive strategy execution program provides your team with all the tools and knowledge required to achieve your mission. We significantly improve your ROI by compounding the synergistic effects of four critical components working together:
- Methodology: Our research and experience has revealed the key to success is executing well-defined projects. These projects must engage employees to create high performance processes, deliver significant improvements, and then transition each process to continuous improvement.
- Measurement: Achieving bottom line results and changing the organizational culture are critical aspects of any strategy execution program. We provide tools for measuring what’s important and tracking the cultural transformation. You will know progress is being made.
- Coaching: Our experts provide guidance at the critical milestones. We help you organize for success, select the right projects, assess your progress, and make course corrections. We bring the assessments, knowledge, experience, and templates you need.
- Community: The power of multiple organizations leveraging the same program allows everyone to share best practices and seek help from others who have overcome similar challenges. Our community is actively collaborating to incorporate emerging trends into our program and share knowledge of what works and what doesn’t.
While each of the above four components provide great value, it is the synergy between them which allows our comprehensive program to be much greater than the sum of the parts. As a result, your ability to executive your strategic initiatives is far better than any alternative approach.
Let’s look closer and each component.
1. Methodology
Our strategy execution program leverages the Six Disciplines methodology - a synchronized and systematic approach for building your business.
It puts together, into one integrated step-by-step process, what has formerly been thought of as different disciplines. The six fundamental disciplines involve strategy, planning, organizing, executing, innovating, and organizational learning - each having a systematic approach.
You can think of the Six Disciplines methodology as a series of annual, quarterly, weekly, and daily cycles. With each successive pass, you and your team will learn how to communicate, collaborate, and perform better.
2. Measurement
Our research has identified how executive sponsors, of a strategy execution program, want proof the strategic initiatives are transforming the organization. Leaders want to know the score.
We accomplish this by taking the pulse of the culture, for an organization, at the beginning of the journey and monitor progress at key milestones. We help your leadership team see how the culture is improving, as employees become engaged and begin executing the projects required for each strategic initiative.
Beyond the aspect of a cultural transformation, we also evaluate the performance, of your processes, to ensure your organization is becoming more effective. Success looks like improved customer service, increased revenue, reduced costs, faster product development, and happy stakeholders.
3. Coaching
Our approach to coaching your team is to provide knowledge and guidance at critical milestones in the journey. We teach your team how to fish, let them practice fishing, provide suggestions, and then get out of the way.
Beyond the coaching provided during individual projects, we also help you during the other phases of your journey.
We can help you:
- Prepare and run your annual planning retreat
- Organize for success
- Launch each strategic initiative
- Conduct organization assessments
- Conduct knowledge assessments
- Join the community of leaders
- Monitor progress
- Make course corrections
We will also shine a bright light on activities which are not aligned with strategic initiatives - the items wasting time and other resources.
4. Community
A complete strategy development and execution program depends upon the power of community to drive the development and sharing of best practices. The Six Disciplines community changes the economics for implementing such a program for many organizations.
Leveraging contributions from participants in the community means small and medium sized organizations can succeed with a comprehensive program which does not require large investments in time and money.
Improvements to the methodology and software are provided by the corporate staff at Six Disciplines. The certified coaches work with multiple organizations, attend advanced educational events, and are connected to each other for sharing ideas. The various organizations practicing the program are able to exchange ideas through numerous channels.
Putting it all Together
We have assembled all of the components which provide an incredibly effective means of strategy execution for any organization:
- The Six Disciplines methodology is a synchronized and systematic approach for developing and executing your strategy
- Our commitment to results puts a focus on measuring what's important as people execute the projects required for each strategic initiative
- As your coach, we understand how progressing from strategy development to daily execution requires solving needs for all layers in your organization
- Our community of like-minded organizations provides access to others who are taking the same journey - you will benefit from collaboration and contribute to improve the community, thereby increasing the value you receive
Robert Kaplan and David P Norton reported, in the Harvard Business Review, how "an astonishing 95% of employees are unaware of, or do not understand, the strategy for their organization."
Is it time for you to "work on the business" and not "work in the business?"
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