Company Alignment Analysis

How aligned is your corporate strategy with its purpose and its organizational capabilities?

Every company begins life with a strategy that delineates what it plans to achieve. Every company also has a purpose, either assumed or explicitly stated, that declares its reason for existence for the long term. Purpose is tied to the company$$s desired impact and legacy.

When a company strategy and purpose are aligned, the direction and diligence are strong.

However, to realize the company$$s strategy and purpose is dependent on how effectively the strategy and purpose are implemented.

The who, what and how of effective strategy implementation are driven by the functional level of operations; the functional level of operations embodies culture, structure, people, capabilities, etc. Taken together, these functional level operating elements comprise the Organization; the extent to which they work effectively to implement the company strategy and purpose is called Organizational Effectiveness.

You may have experienced a time when a strategy was strong and made perfect sense, but execution was poor. Perhaps the culture was dysfunctional, the purpose of tasks unclear, the capabilities needed to carry out tasks insufficient, the resources required to actually $$get it done$$ lacking....this example clearly depicts Organizational Ineffectiveness.

Therefore, the vital link beween company strategy and the Organizational Effectiveness is ALIGNMENT. ALIGNMENT of Strategy $+$ Organization is what contributes to a company$$s overall effectiveness and stable growth.

Assignment

This Company Alignment Analysis assignment requires you to answer the question: How aligned is MY company$$s strategy, purpose, and functional level operating elements, as defined above?

The company you are analyzing is YOUR PRESENT EMPLOYER. You are using your present employer because you have first$-$hand experience at the functional level of the Organization, as defined above.

This assignment requires you to investigate and analyze your present employing company. Your report should include the following $5$ sections:

Your company$$s stated Strategy and Purpose. Use PESTEL, $5$ Forces, SWOT and ESG to determine the competitive advantages now and in future. This should give support to evaluation of the alignment between the strategy and purpose your company claims. Your evaluation should offer evidence and your reasoning. NB: copying and pasting tables from online sources is not analysis. Highlight the key elements from these tools that support your position.

Your Organizational Effectiveness assessment. Use your personal part of the business to determine the extent to which the Organization appears to support the company strategy and purpose. In other words, to what extent is your Organization aligned with your company$$s strategy. This is based on your experiential evidence that supports your point of view. For example, if asked, $$Do you know how and why what you doing supports your company$$s strategy and purpose?$,$ would you say yes, no$,$ sort of$?$

You may collect survey data among colleagues to support your conclusion.

Using Trevor & Varcoe$$s model, identify which quadrant best describes the alignment among strategy, purpose, and organizational capabilities of your employing company.

Recommendations: Given your overall analysis of the company and external trends you are aware of$,$ what recommendations could you make to this company for improved performance? $($e$.$g$.,$ stop, start, continue?$)$

Please use AI in this assignment! How can AI help you in this analysis? Clearly, ChatGPT could not write about your personal experience as part of implementation. Could it estimate the extent to which your functional level of operations supports the company strategy and purpose?

In this $5$th section, share how you used AI$,$ and include your question prompts. Describe briefly how AI helped you and your reflections about partnering with AI$.$ Will it replace you?! Why or why not?

Mechanics

$5-8$ pages, excluding title page and references$/$appendices

$5$ line spacing

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