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Solutions addressing today’s multifaceted business challenges and opportunities can be extremely difficult to recognize; the ever increasing pace of change within the business environment further complicating this problem. In order to successfully deal with this challenge, decision-makers need the support of people and tools to help them distill large quantities of data, recognize important business trends, discount temporary fads, and translate their findings into meaningful organizational activities. Because no one analysis perspective will adequately account for all of the important nuances associated with a complex problem, multidiscipline teams and diverse tools should be employed to establish a complete picture organizational performance and environmental conditions. Use of a diverse set of models during the strategic analysis process helps create this needed picture.*

As discussed in Strategic Analysis Best Practice 5 - The Use of Models, organizational leaders benefit significantly by using models to help them sift through the mountains of available data and to recognize the meaningful patterns and relationships that yield the information needed to make timely decisions. Yet as is the case with all measuring instruments, an individual model can only evaluate one or a few characteristics of organizational performance or environmental conditions. Therefore, multiple models, each targeted at a different aspect of performance, should be used to paint a complete performance picture from which decision-makers gain the insight and understanding needed to make quality decisions.

Final Thought…

Use of diverse models to analyze organizational performance and environmental conditions is akin to using an assortment of organizational performance measures and multidiscipline teams. This practice provides varying perspectives on the same situation, leveraging a broader data, knowledge, and experience base, and subsequently more fully characterizing existing circumstances and future opportunities which in-turn helps decision-makers identify the appropriate course of action.

* The use of a multidiscipline team in support of analysis processes is described in Strategic Analysis Best Practice 6 - Multidiscipline Teams.

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Nathan A. Ives is a Strategy & Operations Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP, a StrategyDriven contributor, and co-Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over fifteen years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at numerous Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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