Organisational Alignment Diagnostics

and Measuring Tool

S-RAY SCAN

Performance Consulting

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

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We map out organisational reality: are we all tied together in one purpose, one strategy, one goal?

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The S-ray Scan provides a crystal-clear diagnostic picture of how aligned people and teams are with the organisation’s purpose, strategy and goal.

Without execution, even a winning strategy is only a plan. High-performance doesn’t come from winning plans; it comes from the execution of winning plans that are driven by purpose. If your people don’t align with the purpose and strategy, they will follow their own, often disconnected, “strategies”, resulting in uncoordinated effort, hampered teamwork and in the end suboptimal performance.

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What is the S-ray Scan?

As an X-ray shows the internal structure of the human body, S-ray makes the internal structure of an organisation visible. Replace X with S, for strategy, and you arrive at S-ray.

The S-ray Scan is an advanced tool to measure alignment within the organisation across different business units, functions and teams. It provides an accurate image of the current situation of which business units, functions and teams are strategically aligned with the CEO and the top executive team and which ones are disaligned and to what extent. Zooming in on the unaligned units and teams, the S-ray Scan provides the evidence-based assessment of alignment drivers so one can act upon these causes in order to enhance strategic alignment. The scan consists of three intergated components. Together these components provide a state-of-the-science tooling and the expertise necessary to realign the entire company.

Component 1Helps senior management capture their company’s strategy in a set of focused statements

Component 2Creates a clear picture of strategic alignment throughout the organisation

Component 3 Provides the key alignment drivers to resolving strategic disalignment.

6-Step S-Ray Diagnostics Process

Delivery lead-times vary from two to four months, depending upon the size, complexity and maturity of the business case. Running a single measure-ment event requires the following delivery steps:

The S-Ray Diagnotic Process:

1. Understanding Context - Defining and drafting the key statements

from the business strategy.

2. Organisational Insight - Intake from key persons within the orgnisation

and selecting key alignment drivers.

3. Scan Preparation - Configuring the S-ray scan infrastructure with

business specific content

4. Scan Execution -Inviting the organization, collecting data (online) and

progressing response

5. Scan Analytics - Quantifying and visualizing alignment diagnostic

scores and alignment driver assessments.

6. Detecting Barriers - Interpreting and feeding back outcomes and

consequences during learning workshops.

High-performance doesn’t come from winning plans; it comes from the execution of winning plans that are driven by purpose

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How S-ray Scan Works

The S-ray Scan is a 2 in 1 tool: It connects the diagnosis of alignment with the drivers of alignment. The alignment diagnosis is based on a scientifically validated and patented measurement method, developed at Erasmus University Rotterdam. This method visualizes through infographics whether and to what extent organisational units such as teams and departments work in line with the strategy as set out by the executive team. Usually unalignment is the rule rather than the exception – especially when conducting a baseline measurement. The logical next question: now what? The answer to that question will be provided for by the integrated assessment of alignment drivers. These driving powers of alignment have been scientifically determined and provide specific anchor points for the design of leadership and/or organisational development programs. Such, that these programs will actually contribute to enhancing strategic alignment and consequently improving company performance.

Team-of-teams alignment - High alignment

Team alignment - Disalignment

80%Strong Alignment

Team-of-teams alignment - Disalignment

Team alignment - High alignment

37%Non-alignment

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“The S-ray Scan challenged our Global Executive Team, myself included, to be far more explicit about our global business strategy. Of course, we had our 2012- 2015 strategy in place. However, the moment I had to bring the fourth document to the table to explain the S-ray Team about our global strategy, it became profoundly clear that the framing of our strategy did not yet meet the criteria that the S-ray Scan is so rightfully setting for highalignment purposes. This in itself was a highly valuable experience, which for me explains at least partly that we are now so closely aligned with the Leadership Teams of our 22 MCO’s around the globe.”

Gaby Vreeken

2009-2013 SVP Marketing Unilever Food Solutions

CEO Unilever Nordics

“Being an innovative technology company, we have been in the forefront too with the S-ray Scan. In our own field of competence, we know how to transfer scientific discovery into practical value. S-ray Diagnostics proves that such a transfer works very well too in the “softer” management discipline”

Co van Dort

Director Tata Steel Netherlands

Finance Director Operations Tata Steel

Europe

WHAT > Goal >alignment

HOW > Strategy alignment

WHY > Value alignment

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Crystal-clear diagnostic picture of how aligned people and teams are with the organisation’s purpose, strategy and goal.

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S-Ray Diagnostics is our special expertise partner in alignment diagnostics.

S-ray Diagnostics is a scientific enterprise of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Its core business is strategic alignment. S-ray Diagnostics develops scientific knowledge on the diagnostic measurement of strategic alignment and brings this knowledge into practice by means of its state-of-the-science management tool called the S-ray Scan.

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