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People and Process Alignment

Workshop Duration

Two Days

Target Audience

  • All Managers involved in Creating, Delivering and Sustaining Operational Processes and Systems
  • High-flying Junior Managers and New Entrants

Deliverables

An understanding of:

  • The principles of organisational theory and structure
  • The relationship between people and process in delivering effective and efficient performance
  • How to construct an operational improvement path for competence development

Workshop Structure

Day One: Understanding Organisation Theory And Structure

The Importance of Organisations:
Organisations as Social Entities; as Goal Achievers, as Co-ordinated Activity Centres; and, as Links to the External Environment

The Problems of Organisations and Change Management:
The Structural Reification of the Past and the Barriers to Innovation in Existing Organisational Designs and Fads

The Problem of Misaligned People and Process Competencies:
The Specification and Measurement of Core Competencies Versus the Need to Establish Dynamic Stretch Targets

Creating a Knowledge Based and Learning Organisation:
The Problem of the Learning and Knowledge Transfer, Information Asymmetry and Closure Issues in Product and Organisational Design

Day Two: Aligning The Competencies Of People With Process Requirements

Understanding the Alignment Process:
The Importance of Supply Chain and Value Chain Thinking and the Demystification of Structures Based on Functionality

Specifying People Competencies:
Linking Supply and Value Chain Delivery to Human Process and Skill Capabilities

Creating an Appropriately Dynamic Internal Organisational Structure:
Selecting Process and Matrix Structures to Link People Capabilities to the Types of Supply and Value Chains within the Organisation

Creating an Appropriate Internal Performance Measurement System:
Models for Specifying and Defining Appropriate Improvement Paths to Achieve Internal Strategic and Operational Effectiveness

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