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Alignment Optimization

Alignment Optimization. An Introduction to. Synchronize Your Destination ™.

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Alignment Optimization

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  1. Alignment Optimization An Introduction to Synchronize Your Destination™

  2. Alignment Optimization (AO) methods and software are used by leaders at organizations of all types and size, to increase the Quality, Execution, and Efficiency of ‘collaborative actions’, such as strategy, policy, projects, and business relationships, as the alternative to doing it themselves or with non-technology enabled consultants.

  3. AO is designed for the leaders and participants of ‘Collaborations’

  4. ‘Collaborations’ - small groups to large communities – in one organization or across many.

  5. Collaborations determine in what direction, how far, and how fast, organizations advance.

  6. In 12 months alone, multiple collaborations are conducted in every organization. (We have identified and mapped over 80 common collaborations conducted by organizations; above are just a few)

  7. How often do they enjoy the green line?

  8. What comes to mind when you hear: ‘Revise our strategy, create a policy, implement that project, fix the alliance.’?

  9. Fostering and sustaining high alignment is a core leadership skill - but where were leaders trained ‘how-to’?

  10. When asked, this is how they reply.

  11. Leaders of collaborations must balance three competing objectives.

  12. Theory of • Interdependent • Decision-making • How groups coordinate their actions in mixed-motive, non-zero sum situations • Research lead by Prof. Thomas Schelling, 2005 Economics Nobel Prize winner • Relational Networks • The relationship model behind inter- and intra- company value chains • Identify synergistic and conflicting value drivers • Action Science • How people choose to act, and not act • Research lead by Professor Chris Argyris SchellingPoint saw an opportunity to integrate three bodies of work and transform collaboration.

  13. AO Concepts • GUBA • Degree of Alignment • Four alignment positions • Three reasons for misalignment • … Coordinated Action • AO Methodology • Outside/In Themes • Personal Safety • Action Inquiry • … • AO Technology • Alignment Index • Topic Templates • Foundation Document • … The result was Alignment Optimization.

  14. How can you take the straight line to alignment, or get there at all, if you aren’t accommodating alignment’s core concepts? • AO Concepts • GUBA • Degree of Alignment • Four alignment positions • Three reasons for misalignment • … Coordinated Action • AO Methodology • Outside/In Themes • Personal Safety • Action Inquiry • … • AO Technology • Alignment Index • Topic Templates • Foundation Document • …

  15. AO Concepts • GUBA • Degree of Alignment • Four alignment positions • Three reasons for misalignment • … The four categories of opinion driving action and inaction Coordinated Action • AO Methodology • Outside/In Themes • Personal Safety • Action Inquiry • … • AO Technology • Alignment Index • Topic Templates • Foundation Document • …

  16. AO Concepts • GUBA • Degree of Alignment • Four alignment positions • Three reasons for misalignment • … Every group measured had an initial Alignment Index between 44 and 83. Coordinated Action • AO Methodology • Outside/In Themes • Personal Safety • Action Inquiry • … • AO Technology • Alignment Index • Topic Templates • Foundation Document • …

  17. AO Concepts • GUBA • Degree of Alignment • Four alignment positions • Three reasons for misalignment • … Knowing which position accelerates prioritization Coordinated Action • AO Methodology • Outside/In Themes • Personal Safety • Action Inquiry • … • AO Technology • Alignment Index • Topic Templates • Foundation Document • …

  18. AO Concepts • GUBA • Degree of Alignment • Four alignment positions • Three reasons for misalignment • … Knowing the cause of misalignment is the root to resolving it Coordinated Action • AO Methodology • Outside/In Themes • Personal Safety • Action Inquiry • … • AO Technology • Alignment Index • Topic Templates • Foundation Document • …

  19. AO Concepts • GUBA • Degree of Alignment • Four alignment positions • Three reasons for misalignment • … Coordinated Action • AO Methodology • Outside/In Themes • Personal Safety • Action Inquiry • … • AO Technology • Alignment Index • Topic Templates • Foundation Document • … These drove the need for method and technology to efficiently assemble endorsed, viable plans.

  20. DIY Internally

  21. Management Consulting Team DIY Internally

  22. Management Consulting Team DIY Internally Alignment Manager & AO Technology • Leaders can now access software and methods to upgrade conventional manual, human-centric, modes of collaboration.

  23. Alignment Optimization Technology Certified Alignment Managers Alignment Cycles Alignment Products Action Research Alignment Optimization Education • SchellingPoint trains Alignment Managers to use the AOT software and AO methods to facilitate light, efficient, high quality collaborations.

  24. AOT is a powerful cloud-based, social business application.

  25. Alignment Managers are: • Individuals inside a corporation who facilitate Alignment services for their leaders • Consultants at management consultancies that see an opportunity to change the customer value proposition.

  26. Alignment Cycles Alignment Products Action Research AO is deployed today in three forms of Alignment service.

  27. Enable any group to rapidly translate their thoughts into the best coordinated action around a shared topic. 1. Alignment Cycles

  28. Provide customers with access to a library of pre-packaged services that allow them to bring the quality of the best management consulting in-house on common topics. 2. Alignment Products

  29. Unlike traditional ‘market research’, use Coordinated Action concepts to understand what is/will drive action and inaction in a community, identify like-minded clusters, and develop personalized solutions and action roadmaps. 3. Action Research

  30. AO and AOT are increasingly being used by leading organizations across the world.

  31. Your Group  The AOT Software  A SchellingPoint Partner Network Alignment Manager Your In-House Alignment Manager or Turning on an Alignment service is straightforward.

  32. Use AO methods and AOT software on your next collaboration: The best objectives - that are viable – and endorsed - without all the meetings.

  33. Tools are available to explore the material within these slides. A series of case studies are available in AOT at schellingpoint.com, illustrating how Alignment services operate in practice. To learn more about Alignment Optimization methods, see the AOT software in action, or find an Alignment Manager, please contact: Thank you for your interest. info@schellingpoint.com

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