Aligning Strategy with Execution
The Secret to Success
No matter how efficiently you are running everyday processes, if you do not have visibility into the impact of your actions, how your processes affect the enterprise as a whole, or how they are contributing to strategic objectives, then you are delivering suboptimal results.
The Secret to Success—Close the Gaps
The focus of this article is helping you figure out how to align strategy, analysis and execution. The secret to success is simple—close the gaps. Eliminate the silos by closing the gaps that exist between them.
You can adopt all of the best practices and deploy all of the best people in the world within each discipline, but if you do not close the gaps across these three silos your results as an organization will always be suboptimal. That is why we focus on technology. Selecting the right technology for each area and standardizing on it delivers visibility, interoperability, productivity, and agility. The right technology can also serve as a bridge for collaboration—and collaboration is critical.
Collaboration both within and across silos is necessary to close the gaps, but this is often a challenge due to disconnects between business users and IT and a lack of a common and shared understanding of objectives, needs and results. Technology that appeals to both business users and IT can act as a bridge for communication.
Tip # 4: Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate.
In an ideal world, the technologies you select for strategy, analysis and execution should interoperate well, share data and services without the need for complex integration, and facilitate collaboration across the enterprise.
Summing Up
Isolated efforts related to defining enterprise strategy and architecture, analyzing and optimizing business processes and executing on day-to-day operations will fall short of success if the three areas do not align. Closing the gaps between strategy, analysis and execution is feasible, but technology and collaboration are critical factors.
You can accelerate success by choosing a single technology platform that addresses all three critical disciplines and is designed to meet the needs of both business and IT stakeholders.
As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise™ allows organizations to maximize business results by unifying strategy, analysis and execution. Metastorm brings together these critical disciplines on a single software platform to enable an understanding of enterprise architecture and strategy, accurate impact and opportunity assessment, effective process execution and accelerated value realization for organizations worldwide. For more information on powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise, visit
www.metastorm.com.