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Alignment Considerations
A plan is only as good as the people who implement it.
—HJH
Vision-Centered Organizational Alignment Models
Most executives spend their efforts trying to reduce short-term costs and increase short-term profitability. They concentrate on targeted savings of 5% or less and usually develop these savings in one location without consideration of the long-term consequences of the savings. This is Micro-Alignment. On the other hand, when the scope of the change crosses organizational lines, there is a radical change in the nature of the product, or service, and these changes have the potential for developing major breakthroughs (e.g., 50% savings in cost or time), they are Macro-Alignment changes.
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