What is Alignment Maturity?
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One of the questions asked is whether Organizational maturity can exist without technological maturity. The short answer is yes – strong, thriving businesses existed long before our current wave of technology made its presence known. The following question is one of relativity, can organizational maturity exist without technological maturity in today’s business environment?
The answer is no – because the businesses that effectively implement technology and properly align it to their business objectives have the cost and efficiency advantage over their competitors. The constants in business over time are the product and its place in the marketplace, the manufacturing and supply of the product, the accounting and financials, the sales and marketing. What changes is how well each of these processes is executed and how well the technology integrates and supports the business processes. The more effective this is accomplished, the higher the degree of Alignment Maturity is achieved.
So, where does your business fit in this scenario? Has your company achieved Alignment Maturity? Do the Executives and the Front Line troops have the same vision for the company? Is the organization friction free from top to bottom? Is your SAP system an effective tool for your company increasing the efficiency of your business processes or do you have major friction points within these processes?
Our assessment of your Alignment Maturity lasts one to two weeks. We spend time with all levels of management assessing the effectiveness of Corporate Goals Strategic Objectives. The focus here is to determine what staff is working towards, how aligned the organization is, and then take a look at how well the SAP system supports what the company is attempting to accomplish.
At the end of the engagement, we provide an Executive Briefing detailing our findings, where the friction points are in the organization, recommended next steps and the recommended KPIs that need to be put in place to measure success.
This service can be performed for existing implementations but is also very effective as a planning session prior to implementing SAP. In these cases, our consultants bring their extensive experience to provide you with guidelines for effective implementation and set in place that structure that will assure you success once you have gone live with SAP.
Follow on services are geared to aid your business in implementing the change that is necessary for success with SAP. We focus on making sure the system is healthy – mature and is properly setup to support your current and future needs. We concentrate on making sure your business is aligned from the CEO to the VP’s, to Mid-Management to the users to the system that supports all of them.