Process change: following the four guiding principles of operational transformation will help you to ensure successful execution of your business strategy
Author: Frontline Solutions

Aligning organizational structures, roles, and skills with strategy and process is perhaps the most challenging and critical factor in successful operational transformation. Process and organization are intrinsically interwoven elements in the successful execution of business and supply chain strategy. They are the proverbial "chicken and egg" of strategy execution.

Yet many companies continue to pursue transformation projects by addressing the organization's structure and processes as if they were independent. Examples abound of process improvements that are crippled by organizational issues and of organization restructurings that have minimal impact due to lack of process change. Successful companies include organizational transformation as an integral part of their improvement efforts by following four guiding principles to align skills and accountabilities with process execution in support of the overall business strategy:

* Ensure that form follows function: align organization to process.

* Know, grow, and keep your core capabilities: align to strategy.