Organizational Readiness

We believe that these questions only touch the surface of the rigor that an organization must pursue in evaluating its competence (and commitment) to drive internal improvement. Our “Programmed Solution” deals with each stage of the intervention in detail. But, before we examine the solution, let’s make certain the organization is ready for our approach.

In our experience we have boiled the essence of organizational readiness down to three essential organizational characteristics that must be in place:

1. Organizational Value Structure
a. Knowing what’s important
b. Patience to see it through
c. Commitment to improvement
d. Culture of action
e. The value of leadership is recognized

2. Culture of Accountability
a. Culture supports ownership and personal responsibility
b. Infrastructure provides means to measure and report progress
c. Success and failures are important and dealt with appropriately
d. Goals and tasks to achieve them are aligned

3. Compelling Need
a. The pain of the status quo must exceed the pain of making the change
b. Willingness to sacrifice to achieve it (going to heaven)