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Organizational Fitness Profile (OFP) Road-Mapping Identifying Weaknesses of Your Organization and Taking Corrective Action |
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By Vadim Kotelnikov. Main source of information: "Extreme Management", Mark Stevens
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving." – Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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Why OFP? Even the best corporate leaders can be blind to core personal and organizational weaknesses that are hidden within the business structure and create obstacles and barriers that prevent their business units from achieving optimal performance. Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer and consultant Russel A. Eisenstat developed and innovative process, the Organizational Fitness Profile (OFP), that can help corporate renewal, X-ray your organization, identify its weaknesses, and take corrective action. Three Stages of the OFP Process 1. Orientation and Planning 2. Data Collection 3. Meeting The Key Challenges To Organizational Success A global survey of team leaders to executives revealed that “soft” issues such as inspiring corporate culture are over 3 times as prevalent as “hard” issues such as finance. Leaders are twice as concerned about leadership than all other issues combined.When divided between “hard” issues such as finance and supply and “soft” issues such as culture and communication, the “soft stuff” appears to be three times harder... More Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements Leadership (Fire): Bureaucracy makes work and creates climate in which the customer comes third – well after the management and the company's other employees.How much of your energy is expended on purely internal activities? if you spend less than 20% of your energy on external customers, than bureaucracy has taken hold... More Main Subjects for Suggestions in Japanese Companies
Building an Innovation-friendly Organization If you want to be a market leader, you must establish an innovation-friendly organization, Leaders of successful, high-growth companies understand that innovation is what drives growth, and innovation is achieved by awesome people with a shared relentless growth attitude and shared passion for entrepreneurial creativity and for turning ideas into realities. Companies that continuously innovate will create and re-invent new markets, products, services, and business models – which leads to more growth... More
Innovation Management Policies for Large Corporations
By: Bill
Gates, Founder of
Microsoft
Eliminate
rivalry between different parts of the organization
Keep a
flat organization in which all issues are
discussed openly...
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The OFP Process... The Road Map for Conducting the OFP Process... Orientation and Planning... Data Collection... OFP Meeting... Eliminating Bureaucracy... Creating Innovation-friendly Organization...
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