{"id":1751,"date":"2020-04-07T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T10:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theofficialboard.com\/best-articles\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2020-06-02T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:46:20","slug":"the-changeable-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theofficialboard.com\/best-articles\/2020-03\/the-changeable-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"The changeable organization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/transformation\/our-insights\/five-fifty-the-changeable-organization\"><em>Viewed on McKinsey.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> When a company is <strong>underperforming<\/strong>, or identifies substantial <strong>opportunitie<\/strong>s for growth in ways outside of its traditional models, decisions are sometimes made to transform an entire organization around new goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> To be sure, such an approach is not to be taken lightly, and it is a holistic organizational undertaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In \u201cThe Changeable Organization,\u201d McKinsey starts with some <strong>cautionary statistics<\/strong> that should be at the forefront of executive thinking when pondering any major shift in an organization\u2019s business model or objectives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such organizational overhauls typically prove unsuccessful. According to McKinsey, <strong>74 percent of organizational transformation efforts fail<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are abundant reasons why, but most have to do with leaders <strong>not communicating <\/strong>or <strong>engaging employees<\/strong> sufficiently throughout such a major transformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the <strong>26 percent of companies that do succeed<\/strong> with such mammoth organizational changes, a few common denominators emerge, such as ensuring: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> that the <strong>scope of the changes<\/strong> is broad across business units and at all levels of the organization,  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> that <strong>changes are executed quickly<\/strong> in ways that permit&nbsp; <strong>quick victories<\/strong> to \u201cfund longer-term ambitions,\u201d  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> that the changes <strong>improve the organization\u2019s health <\/strong>and not just its financial standing, and that organizations set ambitious financial objectives for such organizational overhauls (McKinsey suggests an ambitious 75 percent or more improvement in trailing earnings as a stretch goal). <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While executive instinct might be to focus on operational improvements, McKinsey states that \u201c<strong>growth can be as transformative as cost-cutting, if not more so.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their recommendation: \u201c<strong>Go for growth.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, in addition to a focus on growth, two other focuses are paramount to major organizational transformations: &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> <strong>organizational health<\/strong>, and <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong> reaching for the extraordinary <\/strong>(\u201ca single self-confident leap outperforms a series of incremental steps\u201d), McKinsey concludes. &nbsp;  <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewed on McKinsey. 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