Engaging employees in the strategy work
How to detect signals of change and recognize hidden ideas? How to ensure
employee commitment? By listening to the employees, offering them an
opportunity to express their ideas and observations and involving them in
the planning process.
Involving your staff in the planning process makes implementation easier.
Invite people to think together and you can increase their level of
commitment. Fountain Park has developed web-based methods that enable you
to get together large numbers of people from different interest groups.
Fountain Park's web-based methods help you to get all the necessary people
involved. This increases efficiency in the strategy process and accelerates
decision-making.
References: AEL (Centre for Technical Training), VTT (Technical Research
Centre of Finland)
Additional information:
Elina Joensuu,
Hanna Ali-Melkkilä,
Jarkko Kuusinen,
Eija Seppänen
Listening to the business environment
How do you encourage customers and different interest groups to tell you
about their hidden needs?
Personal interviews are expensive and time consuming. Writing executive
summaries out of qualitative material is strenuous work. Traditional surveys
direct answering and tend to produce similar answers. It is difficult to
detect the hidden knowledge, which influences the decision-making of
customers and interest groups.
Fountain Park's web-based method gives participants an opportunity to
express their thoughts in their own words. With the help of Fountain Park's
web methods you are able to collect weak and strong signals and detect the
hidden needs within your business environment.
References:
AEL,
Alma Media,
Cern,
Ilmarinen
Challenging strategy
Strategy planning is strenuous work. In a constantly changing world,
businesses need to modify their strategy along the way. If we are familiar
with the discontinuities within our business environment, we can be more
flexible. If we listen to our key persons. views on strategy barriers
carefully, we will gain better understanding of potential threats to the
strategy.
Fountain Park's web-based methods make it possible for you to collect
information related to discontinuities from even a large group within few
weeks.
References:
Helsinki University,
Rautaruukki
Anchoring strategy
A strategy works best and guides our everyday work if we have a full
understanding of it. Successful strategy implementation requires that the
strategy is well communicated and fully understood within the organization.
Fountain Park's web-based Dialog helps you to communicate efficiently and
simultaneously with all the employees. It also enables you to receive
feedback, which can be used by the management to plan future activities in
the organization.
References:
Aspocomp,
Helsinki University,
VTT,
Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration
Evaluating strategy implementation
Have we succeeded in implementing the strategy? How is the implementation
progressing in different parts of the organization?
The feedback received from the personnel enables you to see how well the
information has turned into action, what information channels are efficient
and what issues need further elaboration. Also, feedback helps you to tailor
further activities. Fountain Park's web-based method enables the personnel
to ask questions from the management anonymously. The management, on the
other hand, receives vital information on what issues need further
discussion and what issues, on the other hand, are well understood and need
less focusing.
References: Helsinki University
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