Strategic Analysis Best Practice 9 – Comparing Organizational Goals to Resource Assignments

Want to know what the organization is focused on; what it values? Simply follow the money.

The purpose of every organization is to maximize value creation as defined by its mission goals. To do so, executives and managers must employ the organization’s resources such that they are focused on the activities most directly supporting achievement of the organization’s mission goals. One method of assessing the degree of goal focus is to evaluate the alignment between organizational goals and resource assignment.


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Additional Resources

The following StrategyDriven recommended best practices are designed to help quantify an organization’s mission goals in terms of value and importance as well as creating consistency in the derivation of quantifiable goal values:

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 22 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 3 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven Podcasts website.

Episode 22 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 3 of 3 elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers and Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers (Continued). This discussion:

  • identifies ten questions to explore when seeking to identify both documented and undocumented hidden performance drivers
  • recaps the key concepts presented in the hidden drivers trilogy

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 21 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 2 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 21 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 2 of 3 elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers and Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers (Continued). This discussion explores examples of undocumented hidden drivers and their frequent relationship to an organization’s culture and history as well as the personal ambitions of its employees.

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 20 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 1 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 20 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 1 of 3 elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers and Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers (Continued). This discussion:

  • identifies what hidden performance drivers are
  • examines the often unintended impact of hidden drivers on an organization
  • explores examples of documented hidden drivers

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 19 – Validate the Extremes

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 19 – Validate the Extremes elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 8 – Validate the Extremes. This discussion:

  • examines why and under what circumstances models generate less than accurate results
  • provides an example illustrating the kind of model output which could lead decision-makers to take inappropriate action
  • recommends questions analysts should ask to prevent being misled by erroneous model output