Strategic Alignment Consulting

Strategic Alignment is one of the 9 key components of Strategy Autonomy. The reason why we give this single component specific attention is because it is an urgent need and can be an entry point for fostering strategy autonomy throughout the organization.

Strategy by nature is rooted in both history and reality of business performance; therefore, ‘creating practical strategy’ sounds more like an oxymoron than a professional jargon. However, why strategy is drifting away from reality? First, leaders sacrifices practicality for constructing an agreeable strategy. Second, decision-makers are biased due to different perspectives and capabilities enhanced respectively in the previous battles and performance. These are also two root causes of misalignment and incompatibility between functional goals and strategies, which is now a pervasive problem in organizations.

Strategic alignment is a permanent core capability in strategy autonomy in any organization. It is not a spontaneous result of developing culture, engagement or competencies. You need to invest in deliberate attention and effort to ensure company-wide strategic alignment and even more difficult in developing it as an organizational capability.
Strategic Alignment is neither strategic standardization nor strategic dogmatism. Our definition of strategic alignment encompasses 3 key element: reflection, updating and communication. The ultimate outcome of strategic alignment is maximized strategic synergy. It is a more critical mind-set and capability that safeguards the execution of strategies, rather than a single step in strategic planning.

Obviously, corporate culture is the most powerful system that guards the business performance. Developing a set of widely used language and methods is another key step to develop constructive strategy culture that nurtures strategy autonomy. Business leaders also need to develop other sub-culture accordingly such as leadership, collaboration and problem-solving culture in your organization.

Our value is to provide you with a systematic solution of ensuring strategic alignment, which can easily integrate your internal systems, solutions or efforts in strategy management, centralized platforms or practices and third-party processes or projects. We first find out opportunities through comprehensive diagnosis, delineating the strategy eco-system and current code-of-conduct and practices in strategy management. We will not do anything to intervene the eco-system before seeing that bigger picture. Ensuring strategic alignment is a giant project; however, this does not mean we could not do anything until a big plan is ready. Our experienced consultants know how to prioritize the opportunities discovered in the diagnosis and make the foundation more solid by solving prioritized strategy issues.