.....Assessing Your Organization for High Performance

All organizations are perfectly
designed to get the results they get.

• Define organization assessment and understand its purpose.
• Learn basic principles of open systems.
• Learn the purpose and uses of the Transformation Model.
• Use the Transformation Model to analyze an organization case study.
  
  

2. Current Results

• Review and discuss the current financial/cost structure of the organization.
• Summarize your organization’s key result area and performance.
• Assess the adequacy of current resources.
  
  

3. Business Environment

• Review current market conditions and key competitors.
• Identify key customer, key stakeholders, and their expectations.
• Evaluate current market conditions affecting your organization
• Review the strengths and weaknesses of key competitors.
  
  

4. Current Strategy

• Define business strategy and core ideology and learn their importance.
• Analyze the elements of business strategy within your organization.
• Analyze the elements of core ideology within your organization.
• Report findings and draw conclusions about your current business strategy and the core ideology.
  
  

5. Core Process

• Learn the elements of simple core process mapping.
• Map the macro core process of your organization.
• Identify process variances and key variances related to your organization’s core process.
• Determine the efficiency of your core process and identify the biggest process issues to be addressed.
• Describe and analyze the computer information delivery system supporting your core process.
  
  

6. Structure

• Analyze the nature and rationale of your current hierarchical structure.
• Examine management, worker, team, and support group roles.
• Identify how you are currently grouped and why (functions, departments, team, etc.)
• Identify how organizational units are currently linked and why.
• Develop and “organigraph” (pictograph) of how your organization really works.
• Summarize key learnings and critical structure issues to address.
  
  

7. Systems

• Learn about coordination and development systems.
• Verify how each system is currently working.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of coordination systems.
• Identity strengths and weaknesses of development systems.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses, and key culture learnings and challenges.
  
  

8. Culture

• Survey the basic work culture and general morale in your organization.
• Assess current job satisfaction
• Identify common management and worker attitudes, practices, and beliefs.
• Identify organizational norms around collaboration and performance.
  
• Identify strengths and weaknesses, and key culture learnings and challenges.
  
  

9. Opportunity and Plans

• Summarize key issues from Modules 2 through 8.
• Identify organization strengths weaknesses, and alignment issues.
• Identify biggest opportunities/issues to address.
• Develop a list of change initiatives
• Create a sequenced initiatives time line.
• Learn how to set up and manage project teams.

Click here for Assessing Your Organization for High Performance, Part One.