Aligning Organizing Choices
Individually sensible choices can still pull against each other. This tool checks whether they actually fit together.
Aim
Organizations that achieve superior alignment of all organizational choice areas tend to win in the marketplace. This tool prompts leaders to examine the fit or alignment of their micro choices to see what is needed to drive performance and behavior change. It can be used as a summary tool at the end of macro design, or at the beginning of micro design, to consolidate design choices and ensure their impacts are adequately understood and accounted for. It can also be used as a diagnosis tool to brainstorm and assess misalignments.
Results
- An overview of design choices aligned towards a desired choice.
- Assurance that the impacts of design choices are adequately understood and accounted for.
Pro Tips
- Remember, you're assessing design choices with this tool, not outcomes.
- Don't let the few most essential capabilities and choices be obscured by too many less-critical possibilities.
Macro and micro alignment
Macro alignment is focused on enabling the right capabilities in the organization. It answers the questions "what and where".
Micro alignment is about creating or delivering aligned capabilities. It is the design work that actually changes what an organization does, and it answers the questions "who and how".