STRATEGIC PLANNING AND SYNCHRONIZATION: ALIGNING ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSE AND ACTION

The Situation
Increasing competition, tight budgets, downsizing, and the aging workforce add significant complexity to defining and implementing an organization’s strategy. Too often organizations attempt to fix everything at once, losing focus on the critical priorities that will achieve the strategic goals. Rarely are an organization’s strategy, projects, budget, and resources synchronized to support one another. The resulting misalignment leads to waste, failure to satisfy customer needs, budget overruns, revenue shortfalls, and frustrated personnel.

Our Solution
InterImage has the experience and expertise to assist your organization in defining, planning, and synchronizing its strategic direction. We use collaborative methods to focus teams on strategic goals such as increasing revenue, decreasing costs, and improving resources utilization.

Our Approach

Validate the Strategy
Confirm the strategy through a review of relevant documentation and the clarity of the organization’s mission and goals.

Assess Strategy Enablers
Assess the projects, human and technological resources, and the fiscal resources of the organization. Determine the extent of synchronization and identify areas where misalignment exists.

Define and Prioritize Strategic Projects
Identify and define all major projects that are underway or planned within the organization. Review and define each project in terms of their contribution to the organization’s strategy. Prioritize projects based on objective method using criteria derived from strategic goals.

Assign Critical Resources
Identify and allocate human and technology resources required for each of the priority strategic projects. Develop or validate budget for strategic projects, including consideration of the organization’s ongoing operations must be included to enable synchronization.

Launch the Strategy Implementation Program
Establish the process to execute, monitor, measure and adjust the implementation of the organization’s strategy. Commission an Implementation Team to manage the program, communicate progress, and engage personnel to participate in the organization’s success. Define critical measures to track progress against the desired results of the implementation program and, ultimately the success of the organization’s strategy.

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