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Enterprise Organizational Analysis
Organizational Assessment Brochure
Enterprise Organizational Analysis
In brief, a corporate analysis and design endeavor evaluates fundamental business structures, business processes, and organization and human systems for the purpose of improving the execution of the company's business strategy and business model.
Using theoretically sound and proven business analysis and design techniques, systemic versus symptomatic issues are identified and resolved in a manner that leads to long-term, self-sustained change. More importantly, the results assure a focused measurable and bottom-line impact.
Conditions often driving enterprise organizational assessment and design efforts include:
Change in strategy, goals or the demands of the marketplace
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Slow or fast erosion of key business factors such as market share, sales, new product adoption, profits, etc.
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The need to design the company to optimize business execution, product development and business operations for products in various stages of product and market lifecycles.
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Acquisitions and/or business unit integration
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Turn-arounds
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Planned or occurring growth in business and/or business operations
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Enterprise-wide, business division, executive or team performance problems
Organization and operational assessments can be done systemically across an enterprise or in a more focused and efficient manner for an individual team.
Common questions that often lead executives to undertake this effort include:
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What can we do to become more efficient in our operations and drive down overhead costs?
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How can I get our cross-functional operations working more effectively and efficiently?
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How can I increase the speed and quality of our decision-making?
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How can I significantly and successfully scale my business while maintaining appropriate efficiency ratios?
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Where would investments in my business result in the greatest short- and long-term return?
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How do we globalize our operations without losing efficiency or quality?
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What can I do to get my people executing more effectively on our business strategy and business model?
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How do we implement significant change and maintain or increase productivity, reduce overhead and maintain staff morale and dedication?
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How do I increase the time to market and reduce development time for new products?
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How do I streamline our operations while improving our quality and reducing our overhead?
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What is the most effective balance of centralized and decentralized operations?
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What is an effective business and organization model to drive new product development and generate new entrepreneurial efforts?
Features and Benefits
Enterprise assessments provide solutions for short-term, mid-term and long-term success, allowing the company to evolve as global marketplaces, product development and other economic conditions change without fundamentally having to restructure the company. Executives gain the ability to strategically drive the company instead of reactionally responding to external demands.
Engineering societies, such as IEEE, quality societies, professional journals and academic studies suggest that these types of organizational and operational analysis efforts can yield the following approximate returns on a well-run global company:
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Increase intra-departmental and inter-departmental efficiencies (3% - 5%)
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Improve operational effectiveness (5-17%)
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Decrease time-to-market (3-15%)
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Increase net profit (1-5%)
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Increase margins (3-6%)
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Increase Return-On-Human-Assets (3-7%)
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Decrease executive and organizational decision-making time (10-20%)
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Decrease operational cycle time and human resource expenses in cross-functional activities (5-7%)
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Improve company scalability (5-10%)
A corporate organization analysis and solutions design project often is focused, but not limited to, the features, benefits and improvements in the following:
- EFFICIENCY
- Strategies to grow the business, enhance productivity and expand execution capability with minimal growth in infrastructure expenses, resulting in improvement in overhead-to-productivity ratios.
- EFFECTIVENESS
- A key to any business model is the execution of the right short-term and long-term activities that drive the overall success of the company. Effectiveness-related strategies will allow executives to manage key elements of their business in a purposeful and informed manner, focusing on that which is most critical.
- SCALABILITY
- Scaling the business with increasing leveraged capability.
- SPEED OF EXECUTION AND TIME TO MARKET
- Increasing execution speed of the company's business strategy and business model and improving time to market of new products are the most critical core competencies of successful enterprises.
- VELOCITY
- Speed of change, adaptation and flexibility are critical competitive advantages. Design solutions will provide structural, process and human strategies to significantly improve both the company's speed and velocity.
- GLOBALIZATION
- The economy is now a world economy. Globalization can either result in competitive advantage or an expensive overhead proposition. There is both science and an art to effectively designing global operations. This methodology creates options to: globalize operations for maximum effectiveness and efficiency, support growth, and to minimize problems due to distance and the management of dispersed operations.
- CUSTOMER AND MARKET FOCUS
- The beacon for all corporate change and development efforts focuses on the needs of the enterprise's customers and ever-evolving marketplace.
- ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- The ability to initiate solutions with long-lasting success requires effective change management strategies. Industry proven change management strategies are designed into all solutions.
Deliverables
The ultimate deliverable is a positive effect to the bottom line of the enterprise. On the critical path toward that end this methodology includes the following operational deliverables:
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A detailed analysis of business operations identifying key opportunities for improvement. These areas of improvement are specifically related to systemic root-cause issues associated with the three core corporate structures: business, organization and human systems.
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A detailed analysis report with accompanying recommendations. Data is collected from numerous sources such as: one-on-one intensive interviews with relevant individuals, goal-set evaluations, documentation reviews, and financial reports.
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Crucial business management data that will help the senior executive and his or her executive team to lead and manage the business strategy, business model and general operations more successfully.
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Detailed solution designs related to, but not limited to: organization structure, business and functional goals, key business processes, personnel roles and responsibilities, operational effectiveness, staff productivity, morale and teaming, cross-functional integration and execution, global organization and business model design, and organization designs for entrepreneurial and new product development efforts.
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The design and facilitation of critical process events in which company executives and experts participate in the final analysis of the data and the integrated design of solutions.
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An implementation and change management strategy for all solutions.
AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY
A corporate analysis has tremendous scope flexibility. The analysis and resulting solutions can be focused on the entire business, a specific business unit or profit center, any functional department such as sales or new product engineering, or an individual team. The process is customized for: 1) the goals of the analysis, 2) the size of the company, 3) the nature of the company's business, and 4) the functional unit such as sales, marketing, manufacturing, R&D, etc.
Methodology Overview
All corporate behavior is driven by three main systems: business systems, organizational systems and human systems. This methodology takes a systemic approach with the ultimate purpose of understanding and improving broad-based effectiveness and efficiency.
These three systems have a joint and mutual effect on one another. Analyzing one system in the absence of the others presents an incomplete analysis and consequently an incomplete solution, with long-term negative ramifications. The company then becomes a victim to that which it is unaware and does not understand.
The ingeniousness and elegance of this approach is how the methodology: 1) leads to a simultaneous understanding of the three-system mutual effect and its impact on specific business issues and then 2) isolates and differentiates specific system-related root causes for the purpose of designing practical, workable and executable solutions.
The entire analysis and solution design process is a joint venture between Peak Performance Group, Inc. and the client. Data collection efforts are typically accomplished by Peak Performance Group, Inc. while the analysis process and the design of solutions are accomplished collaboratively with the client.
PPG experts have available over 300 analytical tools, research and analysis methodologies and applied theories to employ. A sample of the these business, organizational and human analysis techniques include:
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Decision-making analysis
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Goals, rewards and compensation analysis
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Business model and strategy effectiveness analysis
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Organization effectiveness and efficiency analysis
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Business systems execution analysis
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Global organizational effectiveness analysis
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Corporate life cycle analysis
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Corporate change analysis
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Leadership and management effectiveness analysis
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Cross-functional integration and execution analysis
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Employee focus, morale and stress analysis
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Team effectiveness analysis
FEE CONSIDERATIONS
Fee structures are flexible and adaptable. The specific analysis and design approach is uniquely defined by the company's identified needs and its business goals, problems and challenges. There is a range of options that assure a substantial return on investment.
Building Executive Team Success
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Executive leadership teams are most often made up of successful, intelligent, and strong-willed individuals who have healthy respects for their own opinions. Their focus and singular sense of purpose is a leader's strength but also their inhibitor when success depends on their ability to influence other executive team members, be influenced by others, communicate effectively, team and adapt for the greater good of the enterprise.
Today's complex global business environment demands a broad range of experience and thinking - driving analysis, creativity and innovation from a company's leaders. No one or few individuals can lead a global enterprise in today's marketplace. Therefore long-term sustained business success is dependent on the ability of the executive team to act as a team, subsuming their operational responsibilities and healthy personal ambitions for the greater benefit of the enterprise.
Research into effective executive teams determined that key individual and collective team skills include: understanding and adapting to colleague personality, motivation and work styles; adapting communications to the styles of their team members, analyzing and solving problems as a collective act, resolving conflict and most importantly a foundation of trustful, positive and constructive team dynamic.
PROGRAM FEATURES
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Analyzing the executive team's dynamic through one-on-one pre-program interviews with the participating leaders.
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Customizing the design of the program and selecting the appropriate developmental activities based on the data gathered from the interviews.
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Delivery of a two-day leadership team Team Development program.
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Completing a critical business activity such as strategic planning, operational problem solving, business analysis through an immediate one- to three-day facilitated meeting utilizing the skills and dynamics developed during the previous two days.
BENEFITS OF THE EXECUTIVE TEAM DEVELOPMENT EVENT
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Continue to build relationships of the leadership team members.
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Improve leadership team relationships through mutual understanding and appreciation of each others' work, communication, motivation and decision making styles to facilitate the effective team work of the group.
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Provide development experiences that internalize the new ways of thinking and behaving, establishing a foundation for application and adaptation in the participant's everyday business environments.
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Build trust, mutual understanding, good will and collaborative dynamics of the executive team members.
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Identify root causes to team member conflicts, challenges and issues leading to valuing the differences and define new ways to be successful together.
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Improve the effectiveness of the team's collaborations through a better understanding and skills in adapting to each other's personality styles.
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Provide tools for building and managing integrated team relationships and activities.
BENEFITS OF CONNECTING A BUSINESS EVENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY
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Complete critical business work necessary for the success of the business.
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Increase the creativity, innovation, problem solving and overall effectiveness of the business meeting resulting from the improved team dynamic, team skills and improved mutual understanding.
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Engage the team in innovative approaches to conducting business and view potential change as both valuable and important to the future success of the company.
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Increase the cohesiveness of the group, continue to break down barriers.
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Improve long-term executive team performance by solidifying and internalizing the new team skills and learnings though an immediate and critical real-life application.
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Develop a better understanding of the value of working together and collaborating and leveraging each other to improve synergy.
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Act more as one-team and gain better alignment around the purpose and vision of the group.
Team Building and Development
Team building is the process of intervening and providing support to an existing team. That support could include a number of offerings such as team dynamic assessments, team skill assessments, team infrastructure assessments and solutions and design to optimize the team's effectiveness.
Team development is the process of educating and developing the skills and capabilities of the team to work effectively and adaptively long into the future.
Peak Peformance Group, Inc. offers over 100 different team assessment instruments and tools for building and developing teams. PPG expertise analyzes the unique needs of each team and then selects the appropriate tools and designs an approach for long-term sustained success.
Business Impact and ROI
Peak Performance Group, Inc. can assist you in showing the monetary value and business impact of your strategic training and coaching programs through a business impact and ROI study. In addition to showing the monetary contribution to the organization, PPG can assist you in ensuring your programs are aligned to your organization's long term strategic goals. Leadership and Coaching programs are key programs for business impact and ROI studies as these types of programs are linked to the organization's long term strategic objectives.