Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space on the Organization Chart

7.1. What Is Strategy?

Organization strategy is made up of two parts: strategy development and strategy implementation. At the core of strategy development are four elements:

Table 7.1. Strategy's Position in the Nine Performance Variables.

		Performance Needs
		GOALS	DESIGN	MANAGEMENT
Performance Levels
	ORGANIZATION LEVEL	ORGANIZATION GOALS Has the organization's strategy/direction been articulated and communicated? Does this strategy make sense, in terms of the external threats and opportunities and the internal strengths and weaknesses? Given this strategy, have the required outputs of the organization and the level of performance expected from each output been determined and communicated?	ORGANIZATION DESIGN Are all relevant functions in place? ...