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Leadership and Strategic
Planning
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Leadership
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The ability to positively influence
people and systems under one’s
authority to have a meaningful impact
and achieve important results
Strategic Planning
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The process of envisioning an
organization’s future and developing
the necessary goals, objectives, and
action plans to achieve that future.
The Baldrige “Leadership
Triad”
Strategic
Planning
Operations
Leadership
Customer and
Market Focus
Executive Leadership
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Defining and communicating business directions
Ensuring that goals and expectations are met
Reviewing business performance and taking appropriate
action
Creating an enjoyable work environment
Soliciting input and feedback from customers
Ensuring that employees are effective contributors
Motivating, inspiring, and energizing employees
Key Idea
Effective leadership requires five core
leadership skills: vision, empowerment,
intuition, self-understanding, and value
congruence.
Dale Crownover, President, Texas Nameplate Co.
Leading Practices – Leadership
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Create a customer-focused strategic vision
and clear quality values
Create and sustain leadership system and
environment for empowerment,
innovation, and organizational learning
Set high expectations and demonstrate
personal commitment and involvement in
quality
Integrate quality values into daily
leadership and management and
communicate extensively
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Leading Practices – Leadership
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Review organizational performance
Create an environment and governance
system that fosters legal and ethical
behavior
Integrate public responsibilities and
community support into business practices
Leadership Theories
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Trait approach
Behavioral approach
Contingency (situational) approach
Leadership System
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Leadership system – how decisions are
made, communicated, and carried out
at all levels; mechanisms for leadership
development, self-examination, and
improvement
Effectiveness of leadership system
depends in part on its organizational
structure
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Governance
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Governance – the system of management
and controls exercised in the stewardship of
an organization.
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Approving strategic direction
Monitoring and evaluating CEO performance
Succession planning
Financial auditing
Executive compensation
Disclosure
Shareholder reporting
Leadership and Social
Responsibilities
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Ethics
Health, safety, and environment
Community support
Strategic Planning
“A strategy is a pattern or plan that integrates
an organization’s major goals, policies, and
action sequences into a cohesive whole.”
Formal strategy includes:
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Goals to be achieved
Policies to guide or limit action
Action sequences, or programs, that
accomplish the goals
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Leading Practices - Strategic
Planning
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Active participation of top management,
employees, customers, suppliers
Systematic planning systems for strategy
development and deployment
Use of a variety of external and internal data
Align short-term action plans with long-term
strategic objectives, communicate them, and
track progress
Derive human resource plans from strategic
objectives and action plans
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Strategic Planning Process
Reason for existence Future intent
Mission
Vision
Attitudes and policies
Guiding Principles
Environmental assessment
Strategies
Broad statements of direction
Strategic Objectives
Action Plans
Capabilities and risks
Things to change or
improve
Implementation
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Mission
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Definition of products and services,
markets, customer needs, and distinctive
competencies
Solectron: “…to provide worldwide
responsiveness to our customers by
offering the highest quality, lowest total
cost, customized, integrated, design,
supply chain, and manufacturing solutions
through long-term partnerships based on
integrity and ethical business practices.”
Vision
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Where the organization is headed and what
it intends to be
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Brief and memorable - grab attention
Inspiring and challenging - creates excitement
Descriptive of an ideal state - provides guidance
Appealing to all stakeholders - employees can
identify with
Solectron: “Be the best and continuously
improve”
Values (Guiding Principles)
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Define attitudes and policies for all
employees, which are reinforced
through conscious and subconscious
behavior at all levels of the
organization.
Pepsico: integrity, honesty, teamwork,
accountability, balance
Environmental Assessment
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Customer and market requirements,
expectations, and opportunities
Technological and other innovations
Organizational strengths and weaknesses
Financial, societal, ethical, regulatory and
other potential risks
Changes in global or national economy
Factors unique to the organization, such as
partner and supply chain needs
Strategy Deployment
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Developing detailed action plans,
defining resource requirements and
performance measures, and aligning
work unit, supplier, or partner plans
with overall strategic objectives.
Policy Deployment
(Hoshin Kanri)
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Top management vision leading to longterm objectives
Deployment through annual objectives
and action plans
Negotiation for short-term objectives and
resources (catchball)
Periodic reviews
See Figure 5.6!
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The Seven Management and
Planning Tools
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Affinity diagrams
Interrelationship digraphs
Tree diagrams
Matrix diagrams
Matrix data analysis
Process decision program charts
Arrow diagrams
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Leadership and Organizational
Structure
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Basic types of organizational structures
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Line organization
Line and staff organization
Matrix organization