A RUBRIC FOR EFFECTIVE STRATEGIC EVOLUTION.

Dr Jens J. HansenNovember, 2011

The road to success can be littered with minefields and hidden chasms

so consider these variations of organisational malaise:

Some organisations are a tad bereft from time-to-time…

• No Vision + No Skills + No Incentives + No Resources + No Action Plan

• = INEFFECTIVE ORGANISATION

So what happens if individual components have lapsed or remain undiscovered?

• No Vision + Skills + Incentives + Resources + Action Plan

• If you have no idea about where you should be heading, you will end up in a state of …

• = CONFUSION

We also need skills

• Vision + No Skills + Incentives + Resources + Action Plan

• An absence of skills tends to create…• ANXIETY

Incentives are important too

• Vision + Skills + No Incentives + Resources + Action Plan

• A lack of incentives tends to create…• RESISTANCE

And what about resources?

• Vision + Skills + Incentives + No resources + Action Plan

• When you haven’t got resources, what emerges is a growing sense of …

• FRUSTRATION

Planning really is the arch enemy of wasted efforts

• Vision + Skills + Incentives + Resources + No Action Plan

• Planning research realistically means under-promising and over-delivering rather than getting into catch up mode which can be likened to a…

• TREADMILL

So for an organisation to be effective, it needs to have all those

matters in place…

What do you need to see happen to achieve this?

• Vision + Skills + Incentives + Resources + Action Plan = …wait for it, a…

• CONTINOUSLY IMPROVING ORGANISATION