LEVERAGE ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT
How and why
was this method developed?
Organizations are constantly in flux and organizational misalignment that occurs gradually might cause a lot of trouble. It results in spending more company resources, failure of strategic initiatives, less agility, and less adaptation to the changing environment. It can be hard to notice and achieve alignment, misalignment can be counterintuitive and is often not seen by top management. Organizations acknowledge importance of alignment but because of its complexity their alignment state leaves much to be desired. Alignment tools and models only partially help align organizations, they do not include all organizational dimensions and/or all connections between those dimensions and/or across all organizational levels.
This is why the thesis "IDENTIFICATION OF GAPS IN ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT AND ALIGNMENT LEVERAGE POINTS: DESIGNING A METHOD WITHIN A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE" was written by Maria Kremneva. This thesis provides a comprehensive and practical approach to understanding and improving organizational alignment.
The thesis was defended with honors on March 21, 2024 at University Paris-Dauphine.
The alignment tool can give valuable insights for organizations facing alignment problems. It can be used for checking organizations for misalignment and for detecting alignment leverage points after reorganization, restructuring, change of ownership or other big changes when misalignment often takes place. It can be used by consultant companies as an additional means of organizational analysis of complex organizations. It can be used regularly, for example once a year by any organization that needs an inexpensive analysis tool that can be applied without involvement of consultants. It is also a very powerful visualization tool for explaining alignment in an organization.