System Approval by the CEO

Top executives set the behavioral tone of an organization. These leaders, particularly the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), are not only responsible for establishing the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals, but through their decisions, actions, and communications convey to the workforce their commitment to the achievement of these expectations. Such conveyance demands that these expectations also be programmatic embedded within the organization’s policies, procedures, standards, and performance measures. Therefore, it is crucial that the executive team approves, buys-in to, and reinforces the organizational performance measurement system so to ensure its credibility with the workforce at large.

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Additional Information

Additional information on driving organizational alignment and accountability through performance metrics can be found in:

Articles

• Make the Mission Measurable
• Prioritize the Mission
• Organizational Performance Measures – Vertical Cascading
• Organizational Performance Measures – Horizontally Shared

StrategyDriven Podcasts

• Make the Mission Measurable
• Prioritize the Mission, part 1 of 2
• Prioritize the Mission, part 2 of 2
• Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 1 of 3
• Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 2 of 3
• Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 3 of 3
• Horizontally Shared Organizational Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Podcast – Video Edition

• Framework for Aligning an Organization

Whitepaper

• StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures whitepaper – Alignment

Model

• StrategyDriven General Business Model – Strategic Organizational Alignment

About the Author

Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of 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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