Middleton-House & Company

What  April 19th, 2007

Outcomes

We provide solutions when you need…

• Project Alignment…when it is critical to the success of a start-up project that people and groups agree on the outcomes, on how to achieve them, or on how they will work together.
• Project Re-Alignment…when a project is underway and people or groups can’t seem to agree on the outcomes, on how to achieve them, or on how they will work together.
• Business Alignment…when products and services need to be replaced or changed because of shifts in the marketplace.
• Organizational Alignment…when it takes too long to get the whole organization moving together after a change in direction or a strategic initiative is announced.
• Organizational Change…when much time and effort has been expended to make the organization more responsive and more efficient; but no one seems sure of the real outcome—or how much it cost to achieve it.

Approach

With your input, we select activities from four strategic phases…

• Alignment Assessment. Scan the organization—conduct an MRI of organizational alignment. This broad assessment points to organizational issues like missing or broken processes; communications gaps between levels in the organization; conflict between groups; organizational overload; or business models that don’t fit.
• Alignment Readiness. Improve morale and operations in the short term. That might require stress management/
  conflict management training; general alignment across departments at the leadership level; a high-level “As-Is” process review; and other short-term activities.
• Ongoing, Concurrent Alignment. Establish full operating alignment (up and down the organization, across groups and between people) through 90-120-day cycles of management planning, feedback from employees, action and review.
• Business Plan Development and Pilot. Use company business goals as a starting point. Then integrate strategies, programs, and projects across organizations into a unified, company-wide approach. Identify the most important opportunities and develop strategies to achieve them. Pilot the plan.