Why Institutional Excellence?
The leaders of great companies are not just
great at growing profits. Most importantly, they are
organizational
architects determined to establish institutional
excellence for as long as the company is in business.
Institutional
excellence is a
sustainable competitive advantage that enables your business to survive against your
competition over a long period of time. "When institutional
excellence is in place, companies can achieve industry leadership for
decades and generations."1
3 Strategies of Market Leaders
Market leaders
win by building an adaptive, innovation-friendly organization and establishing
an inspirational growth culture. The best companies put a lot of efforts
in developing great leaders and establishing winning teams...
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The Key Challenges To Organizational Success
A global survey of
team leaders to
executives
revealed that
“soft” issues such as
inspiring corporate culture are over 3 times as prevalent as “hard” issues
such as finance. Leaders are twice as concerned
about
leadership than all other issues
combined.
When divided between “hard” issues
such as finance and supply and “soft” issues such as
culture and
communication, the “soft stuff” appears to be three times
harder.
Balanced Organization:
5 Basic Elements
Leadership
(Fire):
Corporate Culture
In six words,
corporate culture is "How we do
things around here."
Corporate culture is the collective behavior of
people using common
corporate vision,
goals,
shared values,
beliefs,
habits, working language, systems, and symbols. It is interwoven with
processes, technologies, learning and
significant events. In addition,
different individuals bring to the workplace their own uniqueness,
knowledge, and
ethnic culture. So corporate culture
encompasses moral, social, and behavioral norms of your organization based
on the values, beliefs, attitudes, and priorities of its members...
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How To Avoid the Hassle of Commercializing University
Technology
16 Ways
By: Terry Collison
Building an Innovation-friendly
Organization
If you want to be a
market leader,
you must
establish an
innovation-friendly organization,
Leaders of successful, high-growth companies
understand that
innovation is what drives growth, and innovation is achieved
by awesome people with a shared
relentless
growth attitude and shared passion for
entrepreneurial creativity and for turning
ideas into realities...
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Flat Organizational
Structure
The New-Generation
Adaptive Organization
Adaptive organization is a new
third-stage organization based upon radically new logics of content,
configuration, and change based on human capabilities rather than
limitations. The three new logics for adaptive organizations include:
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New logic of content
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New logic of configuration
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New logic of change...
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The Growing Role of the
Business Architect
Today's companies need
business architects
who can take a
systems view of a business and build
synergies.
Business
architect is a person who
initiates new business ventures
or leads
business innovation, designs a
winning
business model, and builds a
sustainable
balanced business system for a
lasting success.
Eliminating Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy makes work and creates climate in which the
customer
comes third
– well after the management and the company's other employees.
How much of your energy is expended on purely internal
activities? if you spend less than 20% of your energy on external customers,
than bureaucracy has taken hold.
Employee Empowerment
A successful corporation must be able to craft a new
partnership-based
relationship with its employees – it must be able to
live the ideals of
people power, rather than
merely talk about them...
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Process-managed
Enterprise
Business Process Management System (BPMS)
creates a foundation for your enterprise architecture. By acquiring BPMS
your company can gain unprecedented control of the management of your
business processes, supplementing your existing
systems and accelerating the achievement of your business objectives.11...
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Cross-Functional Teams
"While separate departments help to develop deep
knowledge in each functional area, they also make it difficult to coordinate
activities across departmental boundaries. Organizations often establish
cross-functional teams
to deal with this dilemma."1 Cross-functional teams will also
help you to lead
innovation
and
change through your organization...
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Main
Subjects for Suggestions in Japanese Companies
Be the Best Possible
10 Tips by
Ten3 NZ Ltd.
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Good enough seldom
is.
Organisations that are continually productive and profitable incessantly
strive for
quality and excellence. Acknowledging that your
customers are not prepared to accept an attitude of "that's good
enough," how does your organisation's quality standards rate as against
its competitors? How do your own personal levels of excellence and
quality rate against your current and potential competitors in the
employment market? If you don't know the answer/s to these
questions, then resolve to find them out immediately. The longer
you delay, the larger the gap may be growing between you and your
competition!...
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Three Important Features of All
Organizations...
Three Areas of
Need Present in All
Organizations...
Key Characteristics of High-performance Organizations...
Achieving the Right Balance Between the Whole and the
Parts...
6-A:
Important Traits that Determine Organizational Success...
Establishing an Attitude of Relentless Growth...
Organizational Alignment...
Extended Enterprise...
Sources of Your
Sustainable Competitive Advantage...
Organizational Fitness
Profile (OFP) Road-Mapping...
80/20 Theory
of the Firm...
Continuous Corporate Renewal...
Managerial Leadership...
360 Degree Evaluation Process...
Learning Bottom-Up...
Trust-based
Working Relationships...
How To Bring About Effective Change...
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