Strategy and Alignment
There are a variety of tools available for organizations to use to assess process. In this assignment you will learn how to apply a tool to a process situation.
RAEW is an acronym for responsibility, authority, expertise, and work. Responsibility denotes ownership, authority involves decision making, expertise involves skill or knowledge, and work is the task assigned either to a group or an individual.
Analyzing a process using the RAEW tool can help identify structural misalignments that impede strategy execution. These misalignments include the following:
These misalignments can impede strategy execution by slowing decision-making, disempowering teams when there is responsibility without authority, or depriving processes of key skills when there is responsibility without expertise.
Tasks:
Here are two examples to help check for understanding:
Select an important process in your business unit that is performing poorly and perform a simple RAEW analysis.
Based on your analysis, respond to the following:
In a paragraph, seperate from the assignment, pleasre answer this question too.
What can happen with good alignment between strategy, culture and operations? From the other side, what can happen is there is mis-alignments?
Write your initial response in approximately 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
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