Growth is Stalled

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 444.

Financial Projections are Missed

While missed projections can be traced back to an array of different issues, often the root cause is strategic misalignment. Why? Remember that strategy alignment is the union between operations/execution and strategy. If misaligned, you can imagine the types of non-strategic efforts that can occur at a grass roots level in the organization as managers and workers attempt to find their own direction. Over time you'll find deadlines are not met within operations, product launches or service lines are delayed, and all of this directly impacts projected revenue streams.

When organizations begin to misfire due to misalignment, initiatives required to support and sustain profitable growth get into trouble. It's not that the leadership and rank-and-file employees don't want to see growth occur. It is that, despite their best intentions, they cannot sufficiently coordinate efforts on their own to right the ship. Unfortunately, spotting this symptom is difficult m situations where governance is already lax or missing altogether. Righting the course of the business requires the efforts of all parts of the organization, but they must be working in concert together to do it. Such a feat requires the ability to align strategy and execution through and through.