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Strategic Interventions
to understand and manage relationships between and within the organization and its environment:
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Clarify strategy and work needed to support goals |
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Facilitate process to deepen understanding of the complexity of the organization’s environment |
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Align work with strategy |
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Develop inter-organizational relationships and project structures |
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Understand stakeholder interests |
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Establish decision-making methods |
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Develop learning organizations |
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Tap into tacit knowledge to improve performance |
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Unleash creative energy |
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Establish and manage strategic alliances |
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Improve supply chain management more information |
Techno-structural Interventions
to clarify goals and tasks and improve control and coordination between departments and across authority levels:
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Job and process design |
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Remove bottlenecks, eliminate re-work and improve cycle time |
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Define goals, roles, and responsibilities considering the needs of the organization as a whole |
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Improve project management |
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Understand linkages among activities and establish project gateways |
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Heighten awareness of risk to better address it |
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Organizational assessments |
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Engage the organization in work to enhance its understanding of its current situation as a necessary foundation for a change process |
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Training |
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Develop systemic thinking |
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Help staff understand their roles and responsibilities and how they interrelate with those of others |
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Process Interventions
to improve working relationships, as part of work on organizational issues
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Improving organizational performance |
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Develop understanding of dynamics that impede or facilitate productive working relationships as a basis for change |
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Team building |
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Improve work in cross-functional teams or between departments, e.g., operations and staff |
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Fostering collaborative work |
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Use conflict to better understand business issues and competing interests |
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Establish disputes resolution methods that strengthen decision-making capability |
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Coaching |
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Help people improve performance by deepening appreciation of how their role relates to others |
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Help people transition from technical or staff roles to management through better understanding of organizational dynamics |
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