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Strategic Alignment

What is Systems Thinking?

What is Systems Thinking?

System theory is a conceptual framework that helps us to understand ourselves and our environment. A system is a set of objects that have certain attributes, together with the relationship between the objects. Every system is, in turn, also a part of an environment (simply a larger system). A simple truth is that to think systemically is to understand that you are an interrelated, dependent part of all the larger systems within which you exist and operate. Our actions need to focus on all the related pieces of the system.

What is Strategic Alignment?

Alignment is the adjustment of an object in relation to other objects so that the arrangement can lead to the optimizing of a position or the relationship between the objects or parts. With strategic alignment, it is possible to hopefully improve performance results and gain a competitive advantage. Aligning the organization to the external environment requires forethought and taking proactive actions. Aligning employees' performance to the strategic direction requires leadership and monitoring. Aligning different functions and resources across the organization requires integration and diplomatic handling of personalities.

How Alignment Impacts the Strategic Planning Process?

Alignment has to happen on a variety of levels. This is what brings shades of complexity into the strategic planning decision-making, as well as when implementing the strategic plan. The graphic representations of all the required alignment efforts follow.

Click here for the graphic representations of all the required strategic alignment efforts.

The strategic plan must be created against the backdrop of the organization's values; its moral compass. These values need to lay the foundation for the accepted behaviors in the organization.

What Strategic Alignment Skills are Required?

The competencies required to ensure strategic alignment are an important inclusion into the strategy skill set that leaders in organizations need. You will need to be able to:

take a big picture perspective on problems, decisions, situations and events

identify key stakeholders within the organization and within the marketplace or industry with whom your team needs to interact

ascertain political agendas and adjust your decisions and actions accordingly

integrate and assimilate information

understand the interrelationships between issues

recognize causal relationships

be aware of the multiple effects of any actions decided upon

view information from different perspectives and points of view, to interpret implications, and to make appropriate recommendations

identify common elements or trends in situations and actions

ensure strategic alignment between the macro-environment and the organization

ensure alignment between different areas in the organization

appreciate the pressures that each functional group experiences in the organization and work to mitigate them

make decisions taking into account all the relevant variables

make decisions that are aligned to the organization's needs


breakdown strategy into a practical performance plan to achieve it

All that gets done in an organization needs to be aligned to each other, as well as the strategy, in order to help achieve the strategic goals. Also, the implications of every action should be considered for every other part of the organizational system. In this way, the application of strategic thinking will result in strategic alignment throughout the planning and the implementation process of the strategy.

Strategic Alignment

By: Janine Sergay
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