Achieving Organizational Clarity

Once you select the right level of ambition and understand the key capabilities required to achieve it, you can align your organization towards the key challenges for executing it.

• Have you specified which unit owns which part of your strategy? Group key choices around two axes: Find the key subset of strategic goals, and consider the strategic capabilities to cut across these groups.
• Have you built the right interactions between these key units?  
• Have you assigned the right talent to the right roles? Build the right roles, then map the executive talent onto the key roles.

The key custodians of the execution become the managers. The approach combines management hierarchy with two key conditions to allow for the successful adaptation of strategy.

• How have you empowered your staff? How can they be supported to achieve what they ne...