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Coherence as a Key
Business
Enabler |
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Energizes your company and generates
fresh vitality
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Helps build on on more flexible configurations of management
processes, systems, and people
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Facilitates the initiative and drive that are required of leading
companies
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Deemphasizes a rigid organizational structure; enables your
organization to become
quick, nimble, and responsive
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Coherence as a Key for
the Organizational Integration |
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Coherence as a Compass
for
Decision-Making |
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Decisions can be more decentralized and
of better quality when everyone understands where company is headed.
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Decisions are better when everyone has access to the right knowledge.
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Decisions improve when the right people are working on the problem.
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Keys to Coherence |
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To establish and communicate the purpose
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To design people and processes to fit
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Key Organizing
Principles
which help define some of
the interrelationships among the parts |
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Leaner
organization:
reduced levels of hierarchies, minimized number of bureaucratic
regulations, and focused to realize
synergies
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Objective orientation: clearly
defined objective orientation of each individual and organizational
unit
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Flexibility: flexible, adaptable
organizational structures with simple decision processes and
responsibilities
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Efficiency: economic, efficient
structures, systems, and processes avoiding redundancies
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Linkages To Be
Established
to improve corporate-wide
identification and foster greater
motivation |
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Leadership
linkages:
to coordinate effective decision-making across the
business unit,
leaders
should formulate and ensure that all staff understand the common
mission and values of the firm
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Performance measures and
incentives:
they should be consistent with the company's overarching
objectives
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Teamwork: consists of things like
task forces, workshops, committees, and councils
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Communication: a comprehensive
corporate
communication program
and direct interaction with employees should be established to
disperse information in a timely manner and, thus, support
decision-making throughout the firm
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Why Coherence?
Anyone who wants to achieve
solutions
to the
problems
of tomorrow must acquire this vital trait – coherence. You cannot realize
the benefits of the
new business model
without this glue that holds together its elements. Coherence is what makes
a corporation
greater than the sum of
it parts. The goal is to encourage access to and sharing of
capabilities
across your company.
By achieving coherence, every individual and each part
of the company will be better able to drive purposefully toward a common
goal that is clear, communicated, and understood by everyone. "The
organizational units themselves may always be in flux, but with effective
linkages all the relevant pieces are tied together in a grand unit of common
purpose and direction."
The qualities of
speed and
responsiveness and the ability to tap into the full potential of an
organization are not gifted – you should build them. There is only one way
to achieve these necessary qualities and abilities – to develop coherence
among the many disparate and far-flung pieces of your company. One of the
major objectives is to make your business model more dynamic and less
mechanical than the
traditional corporation.
Creating and Leading an
Adaptive Organization
Of key importance to you, as a leader of an
adaptive organization, is your
skill at placing the right people in the right roles, and make sure those
roles are related coherently. You also must continuously
scan the
horizon for changes in the environment that may require you to
reconsider and change the "context"...
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