Harnessing the Power of Culture™

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Strategic Focus

Strategic Focus – Echoing Jim Collins’ notion of the Hedge Hog, Strategic Focus means building consensus around definition for what an organization does best, its core ideology and passion (purpose and core values), and its economic driver.
 
Business Results – Tactical feedback is an indicator of the degree to which an organization is achieving the goals it has established for itself, e.g. whether the outputs are on course with the strategic focus and goals in the strategic plan.
 
Business Context – Strategic feedback is an indicator of the degree to which the organization’s overall strategic focus and purpose are aligned with meeting needs in the External Environment.

Strata and Talent – The number of managerial layers (strata) have been purposefully designed to: a) achieve the goals in the strategic plan, and b) to handle the complexity of the organization’s work and operations. Talent management focuses on developing managers that have the necessary expertise, experience, and intellectual horsepower to fill those positions now and in the future.
 
Planning and Deployment – The institutional planning process is codified into a written strategic plan that defines the organization’s direction and goals, and is implemented through operating plans, goals and budgets in organizational units that flow down to day-to-day, week-to-week work assignments of individual managers and staff members through formal time management systems (Day-Timer, Outlook, etc.).
 
Policies and Resources – High-level polices and procedures, and the allocation of financial, human, and material resources send a consistent set of signals that are aligned with (and support) achieving our strategic goals.

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