Organization Effectiveness Simulator
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Select the Five Actions below that you believe will most improve your organization’s effectiveness. Each Action indicates which execution building blocks it impacts. Click on an Action to gain insight on its effects. When you have finalized your Action selection, click the "Execute Actions For This Year" button.

  Select Five Actions  Action (click on Actions to see associated Insight)  Execution Building Blocks Impacted
Year 1 Year 2
 1  Focus Corporate Staff on Supporting Business-Unit (BU) Decision Making
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 2  Focus Corporate Staff on Evaluating BU Decision Making
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 3  Clarify and Streamline Decision Making
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 4  Standardize Routine Processes
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 5  Clarify Key Processes
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 6  Focus Headquarters
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 7  Formalize Decision Review Process
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 8  Create Centers of Excellence
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 9  Assign Process Owners
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 10  Establish Individual Performance Measures
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 11  Delegate More Decision Making
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 12  Delegate Less Decision Making
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 13  Improve Field-to-Headquarters Information Flow
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 14  Define and Distribute Daily Operating Metrics to the Field or Line
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 15  Streamline Communications
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 16  Establish BU and Cross-BU Metrics & Reports
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 17  Introduce a Knowledge-Management System
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 18  Increase Competitive Intelligence Gathering
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 19  Develop an Anonymous Feedback System
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 20  Create Cross-Functional Teams
Information Motivators  
 21  Introduce Differentiating Performance Awards
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 22  Expand Nonmonetary Rewards
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 23  Force-Rank Employees
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 24  Increase Position Tenure
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 25  Institute Lateral Moves and Rotations
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 26  Broaden Spans of Control
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 27  Decrease Layers
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 28   Narrow Spans of Control
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