Could Your Organization Use SDEM?
Every operational organization has a strategy, as priorities are established and decisions are made. With this truth in hand, there are two questions every CEO and executive management team should ask themselves:
Can the CEO and executive management team properly identify the organizations objectives, advantage(s), and scope in a simple, easy to understand, and manageable way?
If the CEO and management team cannot properly identify the organizations objectives, advantage(s), and scope, which is often the case, then who inside the organization can?
If the answer to the first question is no, then the answer to question #2 is – “nobody can.” Such organizations do not benefit from having transparent, easy to manage, and sustainable processes to efficiently and effectively define, execute, and manage strategy up, down, and across the organization. Without a clearly defined and easy way to articulate strategy organizational performance is always suboptimal and employee satisfaction suffers.
The lack of a clear, cohesive, and executable strategy, used to direct and manage the organization, is a problem for most organizations, even the really good ones. Fortunately, this deficiency is NOT HARD to correct. The key is understanding and adopting industry leading tools and techniques allowing the proper creation, delivery, and execution of strategy so that strategy drives the organization’s investments and key activities, is used to manage the entirety of the organization, and rewards employees and shareholders. When properly defined, executed, and managed, strategy affords everyone in the organization (from individual contributors to managers) to understand where they fit (purpose and role), what they must deliver (value and accountability), and how they are being measured (expectations and management).
The purpose of the SDEM (Strategy Definition, Execution & Management) services is to educate and empower managers so they can establish and operate professionally managed organizations through the routine use of a crystal-clear strategy that is easy to articulate and incredibly easy to manage. This is accomplished by working with and increasing executive leaderships understanding and competency in the following areas:
Strategy level set – what is strategy and how it is used to professionally manage an organization
1-2-3s of Measures and Metrics – critical building blocks of every good strategy
Mission and Vision clarity – what are they and how are they used
Mapping a Strategy – constructing and using a strategy map and associated balanced scorecard
Measuring and Managing Strategy – how to easily track and manage strategy using the balanced scorecard
Change management and consuming the SDEM tools, techniques, and approach.
SDEM client deliverables include:
Organizational strategy map (cascading optional)
Organizational balanced scorecard
Organizational business model canvas
Management execution/roll-out plan and implementation/change management services
Contact conroyleadershipconsulting.com if you’re interested in learning more about SDEM!