Global Work Force: Organizational Development

What do you feel is important to your company? The most talked about subject now is digital transformations. Many companies are struggling to keep up with the innovation of digital transformation. Success in this area requires agility and innovation. Not placing blame on anyone segment in the organization, organizational leadership may struggle the most with giving way to digital transformation. Companies must be able to react swiftly to the changes that occur in the market, simultaneously driving innovation throughout the organization. Surely a task not for the ego driven.
Taken from a study in Forbes, there were 5 key behaviors that are crucial to organizational agility.

• Enable Continuous Planning

Your business can’t wait months to discover if your product or service is profitable. You depend on this as a part of your revenue stream. Organizations must participate in active planning cycles continuously. The planning process must be real-time and built into your organizational culture.

• Build Agile Structures and Processes

A Change in business plans will possibly force a change to organization structure or business processes, or even lead way to totally new structures. Aligning people and money to meet organizational requirements is one of your most important assets.

• Upskill the future Workforce

Have you noticed that your revenue is linked to skill areas that didn’t exist five years ago? Skills are continuously changing while others become obsolete. Businesses have a duty to help their workforces develop new skills to support and deliver new digital revenue streams. Do you have plans to upskill your workforce? To remain competitive companies must employ a fluid approach to growing and deploying people.

• Empower Employees to Make Decisions

It’s the workforce that will drive successful execution of business plans. Empowering your workers with real time information to make the best possible decisions for the business is essential. Data is key in empowering decision making closer to the customer. Out of date data and siloed teams are major barriers to the democratization of decision making. Employees should have timely and relevant information without gatekeepers blocking access.

• Embrace Measurement and Control

Agility and speed are dependent on robust, accurate, and timely measurement and control. Businesses need to know rapidly if a new product, or service is performing well – in which case it could rapidly need additional resources and talent investment- or performing poorly, signaling that finance and talent may need to be reduced or reallocated.
It’s never an easy job when trying something new. In today’s market you must be able to shift quickly. Don’t be discourage if your try’s at digital transformation do not meet all your objectives. Keep shifting and calibrating until you come closer to your goals. For more information on digital transformation give shoot us an email at, winners@lifesurprisesyou.com
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