A RUBRIC FOR EFFECTIVE STRATEGIC EVOLUTION. Dr Jens J. Hansen November, 2011

The road to success can be littered with minefields and hidden chasms so consider these variations of organisational malaise:

Some organisations are a tad bereft from time-to-time… No Vision + No Skills + No Incentives + No Resources + No Action Plan = INEFFECTIVE ORGANISATION

So what happens if individual components have lapsed or remain undiscovered? No Vision + Skills + Incentives + Resources + Action Plan If you have no idea about where you should be heading, you will end up in a state of … = CONFUSION

We also need skills Vision + No Skills + Incentives + Resources + Action Plan An absence of skills tends to create… ANXIETY

Incentives are important too Vision + Skills + No Incentives + Resources + Action Plan A lack of incentives tends to create… RESISTANCE

And what about resources? Vision + Skills + Incentives + No resources + Action Plan When you haven’t got resources, what emerges is a growing sense of … FRUSTRATION

Planning really is the arch enemy of wasted efforts Vision + Skills + Incentives + Resources + No Action Plan Planning research realistically means under- promising and over-delivering rather than getting into catch up mode which can be likened to a… TREADMILL

So for an organisation to be effective, it needs to have all those matters in place…

What do you need to see happen to achieve this? Vision + Skills + Incentives + Resources + Action Plan = …wait for it, a… CONTINOUSLY IMPROVING ORGANISATION