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ALIGNMENT: How do I align the organization with the priorities of the plan?

Strategic Planning: Leadership Strategies Makes It Work For You!

What are the most important issues that your strategic plan must address? Click one to the right to learn how the Drivers Model, our strategic planning approach, can help you tackle these tough issues.

How do I align the organization with the priorities of the plan?

Many organizations send the executives off to do strategic planning, then have the mid-level managers develop the one-year tactical plans. Far too often, however, the tactical plans are not at all aligned with the strategic plan. The result? Great plans and strategies lay idle while the organization is busy focusing on tactical, day-to-day issues.

The Key Question

When developing your strategic plan, would it be helpful if...

There were a way to ensure that divisions and departments aligned their resources with the strategic priorities from the plan?

Here is how we help align your organization with the priorities of the plan!

Through using our Drivers Model, we will help your organization identify broad goals, measurable objectives, and specific strategies and priorities. Below is an example of one goal area and the relevant objectives and strategies from a corporate strategic plan.

Profitability

3-Year Objectives

Strategies

Deliver superior financial performance

Increase store revenue to $146 million (15% annual growth)

Increase profit per square foot 20% by third year

Increase catalog and e-commerce revenue by 25% per year

Expand implementation of "Customer First" design services to all stores

Redevelop floor plan model to maximize profitability per square foot

Launch E-commerce business, including direct-to-consumer mailings

This is a great first step, however this isn't enough to achieve alignment. It is not clear what division or department is responsible for achieving these targets or how these responsibilities fit into their overall resource plans.

To help align the organization with the plan, each of the objectives and each of the priority strategies must be assigned to the division or department principally responsible for serving as steward to ensure the objectives are met.

	Objective	Responsibility
1.	Increase store revenue to $146 million (15% annual growth)
2.	Increase profit per square foot 20% by third year
3.	Increase catalog and e-commerce revenue by 25% per year

Conclusion

The Drivers Model identifies strategies for growth by engaging stakeholders in identifying barriers to growth and potential growth strategies, and focusing the planning team on defining positioning statements and measurable outcomes.

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