Organizational Strategy

Use this section to manage formulate, implement and evaluate your corporate and divisional strategies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strategy fundamentals

• What are visions and values. This article explains what an organizational vision and values are, and how to use them to solve organizational problems.

 

Strategic roles

 

• The CEO's first 100 daysWhat are the most important leadership activities a new CEO or leader should focus on during his first 100 days? This article highlights how to win support, set ground rules, and create the focus.

• The role of a strategic planner. This article highlights the many roles played by strategic planners and strategy departments in organizations.
• Head of strategic planning. How to negotiate the role that will make you successful within your own organization. The role of the strategic planning department differs from organization to organization, and is often the result of a negotiation. Use this tool to negotiate the role you should play within your own unique context.

 

Formulating strategy

• Planning a strategy workshop. How do you go about planning for a successful strategy workshop? Many organizations choose to have a pre-planning workshop to clarify their expectations and requirements. By answering the questions contained in this article, you will be well on your way to designing an excellent strategy process for your organization.

• How to select delegates for a strategy workshop. How do you choose who to invite to your strategy workshop. Use this article to guide you.
• A strategy for managing during a recession. 5 positive ways to use a recession, to build your organization

Implementing strategy

• A CEO's guide to implementing strategy. What do you do, once your strategic plan has been developed?
  This article shows you how you can use your vision to lead your executive team. It then provides you with 12 steps for implementing your strategy throughout the organization.
  
  

Evaluating strategy

• How to evaluate a strategy. We invest a lot of time and energy in developing our strategic plans each year. But how do we know if we have achieved? How do we evaluate the end result of our efforts - the strategic plans? And how do we evaluate the process we followed to achieve our end result? Read this article if you need to evaluate a strategy.

 

This section is designed to support people who are managing innovation on an organizational wide level.

If you are:

• The head of an innovation function.
• A member of an innovation steering committee.
• A CEO or leader who is trying to create a culture of innovation in your organization.

then the articles and tools in this section will help you.

Set up an innovation in your organization.

• Develop an innovation system. If you are starting an innovation function, or you are struggling to get people to submit ideas to an innovation, then read further.

Develop an innovation culture.

• Does your culture support innovation? You may have the worlds best innovation system. But do you have the culture that encourages people to be innovative? Will people submit innovative ideas to your system? And will they be prepared to work in projects that brings innovative ideas to life?

 

This section is designed to support people who are managing complex change on an organizational wide level. If you are:

• A head of a change management division.
• A head of an Organizational Development division.
• A CEO who is trying to cascade an organizational strategy or values throughout the organization, or manage a merger.
• A project manager working on a project that will impact on the entire organization.

then the articles and tools in this section will save you months of development work.

Sell the need for change

• Do you need to sell the concept of change management in your organization? Are you starting an internal change management function? Do you need to explain what change management is, and how it will benefit your organization or project? We have developed a set of slides that you can use in a presentation to your executive team or project team.

Build a change management infrastructure.

• Develop an integrated change management approach. Do you need to formulate a change management framework or integrated approach? Do you want to sell the concept of a change agent network into your organization? We have developed a set of slides that you can use in a presentation to your executive team.

Change management fundamentals

• Change management dictionary. Have you ever been confused with all the terminology around change management? Use this wonderful dictionary by Robert Gilbreath.

Change management roles

• The role of a change master. From change agent to change master. The different roles you could play when managing change.

Develop a change management strategy

• Ten reasons why change fails Ten reasons why changes don’t work, and why company strategies don’t get successfully implemented. Ten steps to manage change in an organization.

• Manage resistance to change. Develop a change strategy How to develop a change strategy to overcome resistance to change. A useful tool for change managers, project managers, change consultants and anyone responsible for implementing a change that wil impact on an organization.

Implement large scale, complex change.

• Planning the people side of a merger. A merger consists of a number of stages. During each stage problems occur that will need to be resolved. Use the following article to guide you in planning a merger.