TITLE:
Rule of Fives: Identifying Critical Misalignment of Strategic Choices in Organizational Design
AUTHORS:
Timothy Nerenz
KEYWORDS:
Strategy, Leadership, Decision-Making, Organizational Analysis, Alignment, Performance
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.7 No.1,
November
26,
2018
ABSTRACT: Business leaders, consultants, teaching professionals, researchers, and academic theorists have long recognized the importance of strategic choice alignment as a determinant of firm performance and as a measure of strategic leadership competence. But how do we know which organizational elements need to be aligned? How do we determine if those elements are aligned or misaligned, and how do we prioritize misalignments which most urgently need to be corrected? This paper proposes a ten-element best-fit alignment stack of strategic choice meta-frameworks drawn from the author’s expe-rience as both a business leader and graduate school professor and offers a simple assessment mechanism that identifies the most critical misalignments in a firm.