What Every Company Needs to Know: The 7-S Framework
I stumbled upon a presentation on the 7-S Framework by Lowell Bryan, a director at the McKinsey New York office while watching another presentation in the same series featuring the Structure Conduct Performance (SCP) model.
While business school pedigrees may not be strangers to the 7-S framework, many real business owners continue to operate while being completely oblivious to tools that actually help them determine what their Critical Success Factors (CSFs) are.
Bryan explains that one of the common mistakes that most organizations tend to make is to think that organizational effectiveness is about structure. In this presentation he explains what the 7-S framework is all about (shared values, structure, systems, skills, style, strategy and staff) and how its relationship with one another paints a picture of failure or success in an organization.
All of this business school gibberish may not be as exciting as the day we hear Donald Trump needing to wear adult diapers, but fact is these “enduring ideas” from McKinsey have stood the test of time in analyzing and determining organizational effectiveness. Whether you are a small shop or a large corporation, the 7-S framework is an invaluable tool in understanding which areas of your organization needs improvement. It will aid in the discovery of what your real CSFs are and with that information you will be able to make better decisions that help your organization flourish in an erratically competitive marketplace.
P/S: To watch the presentation, you’ll have to be a registered user at McKinsey Quarterly.
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JACQUELINE MIAO
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PRINCE2 Project Manager
Location: London, U.K.-
