The Strategy+Business' Resilience Report looks at organizational DNA and identifies the causes of failure or success:
“Execution” has become the new watchword in board rooms around the globe, as CEOs and directors watch sound strategies fail at the hands of organizations that cannot or will not effectively implement them. The ability to execute is not something you can recruit or mandate. It is inherent—embedded in the management processes, relationships, measurements, and beliefs that constitute an organization’s DNA. Like the DNA of living organisms, the DNA of living organizations consists of four building blocks, which combine and recombine to express distinct identities, or personalities. These organizational building blocks—decision rights, information, motivators, and structure—largely determine how a firm looks and behaves, internally and externally. Unlike humans and other organisms, however, organizations have the ability to change their DNA by adjusting and adapting these building blocks.
Booz Allen Hamilton has developed a short, online self-assessment tool called the Org DNA Profiler™ that assesses an organization’s relative strength in each of these four areas based on individual employees’ responses to 19 questions. Survey responses are fed through proprietary software to generate one of seven prototypical organizational profiles. In December 2003, more than 4,000 profiles were completed online at www.orgdna.com.
The Org DNA Profiler tool is still live, so hop on and see how your company fares.
By answering a few short questions on your organization’s structure, decision making, motivators, and information processes, you can learn whether your organization is resilient or passive-aggressive, overmanaged or just-in-time, military or outgrown.
Whatever the result, this assessment will help you better understand your organization, and put you on a path to improved performance.
I get the analogy, I love the ananlogy, but the delivery is all wrong.
They have not looked deep enough into the science of what they are saying and selling!
Funny thing is they are actually really close to getting it right.
Want to know more?
DL
Posted by: Deryk Lisicky | August 10, 2006 at 07:56 PM