4. RECOMMENDATIONS
For the Levi Strauss organisation to work at its optimum, the top management requires clear strategic objectives and a vision that is reinforced by supportive organisational structures. The organisation further needs to be able to adapt to changes internal and external environments including the creation of new initiatives or innovation and technology improvements.
The three pillars that support strategic transformation are the behavioural, structural and operational strategies. The regeneration would require attitude and behaviour change that will support the shared vision, mission and objectives of the organisation.
It is therefore recommended that a strategic transformation portfolio be implemented immediately that will
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the organisations core business and competencies. The leadership competencies are key factors for success and these will be evaluated so as to ensure that the executive team leading this transformational effort are best positioned to succeed. It is recommended that such an analysis include the use of the eight essentials of excellence proposed by the European Forum for Quality Management’s Excellence Model and the eleven core values highlighted in the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. This will seek to align the leadership skills of the executive team to the core values of the …show more content…
4.2.5. Creating the Strategy Map
The Balanced Scorecard (BS), created by Kaplan and Norton (2001), is an ideal tool that will be used by Levi Strauss for describing its corporate strategy in uncomplicated terms so that the vision and mission are easily communicated to and understood by all its employees. It assists in identifying the critical organisational success factors (CSFs) and associated key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring the degree to which its organisational benefits are achieved.
The BS will enable the link between the Levi’s long-term strategies with short-term actions, and will relying on the financial, customer, learning and growth and internal business process perspectives.
Kaplan and Norton (2001) propose four processes for managing strategy, as shown in Fig. 5 and the BS best provides these capabilities. In addition to increasing understanding of the organisation’s vision and mission and tracking key elements of measurable strategy, the BS will be utilised for facilitating the organisation’s strategy
Organisations today find themselves operating in an environment that is changing rapidly. The process of analysing the implications of these changes and modifying the way that the organisation reacts to them is known as business strategy.
“The balanced scorecard should translate a business unit’s mission and strategy into tangible objectives and measures. The measures represent a balance between external measures for shareholders and customers and internal measures of critical business processes, innovation and learning and growth. The measures are balance between outcome measures, the results of past efforts, and the measures that drive future performance. And the scorecard is balanced between objective, easily quantified outcome measures and subjective, somewhat judgmental, performance…”
“We all have competencies. They are the sum of our experiences and the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes we have acquired during our lifetime” (Pickett, 1998, p. 103). A successful organization will have a set of competencies defined. Having competencies identified outlines the framework of standards that a company and employees should follow. There is a tendency to list a large number of competencies when creating the standards for an organization. Companies should focus on five to seven key core competencies that are needed in order to be successful. The core competencies should encompass the growth of the company, staff, and public perception.
Strategies formulated by John Lewis top level management are basically targeting at 3 core goals, they being:-
There are so many organizations with leaders. By using a competency based approach to leadership, organizations can better
The University of Toledo Levis Leadership program prides itself with creating leaders. The program focuses on giving students with leadership potential the knowledge, skills, and tools to become leaders not only on campus but in their future careers. For me, the proof of this method of producing leadership is shown by the upperclassmen in the program. As a freshman, the upperclassmen are my role models, and I rely on them to set an example of what I can do with my developing leadership. When I met with my LUT mentor, Emma Diesing, earlier in the semester, she set an incredibly high standard for leadership. She is so inspiring because she is only a sophomore and has already achieved so much at the University of Toledo. So when it came to choosing a student leader on campus to interview, I knew she was absolutely the right person to ask.
| establishing policies and procedures that instruct company personnel in the ways and means of executing the strategy.
The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system that was developed by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Norton in the early 1990's. Their goal was to provide organizations with a clear understanding of what to measure in order to improve performance and results (Balanced Scorecard Institute 2014). The balanced scorecard is a framework that allows an organization to measure performance and compare it to the organization’s strategic objectives and goals (Kinney and Raiborn 2013, 10).
The Balanced Scorecard Institute reports that in the 1950’s General Electric was the first to use the Balanced Scorecard approach, but it was not until the 1990’s when Dr. Robert Kaplan a Harvard Business School professor and Dr. David Norton officially titled it the Balanced Scorecard. Once used as only a measurement tool for organizations, it is now a complete strategic planning and management system (Balanced Scorecard Institute, n.d.). Originally, businesses looked at the financial reports to distinguish whether it was a quality company or not. Kaplan and Norton however believed the financial reports only showed past history and an organization must also track how it is performing currently and look at ways to constantly improve future performance. Kaplan and Norton established there are four business segments or perspectives to measure and make improvements on. The four segments
These strategies are of significant value to how the organization looks at the long term operation of the company. These strategies are: 1. Where to put your financial and people resources, 2. Structure and processes that can deliver the strategies; 3. Metric and rewards to support strategy, structure, and process; 4. Values and behaviors required to achieve goals; ( www.managementparadise.com/forums/foundation-human)
A Balanced Scorecard can be defined as a “performance management tool which began as a concept for measuring whether the smaller-scale operational activities of a company are aligned with its larger-scale objectives in terms of vision and strategy” (Wikipedia 2009, ¶ 1). Scents & Things will need to develop a balanced scorecard that will assist in meeting and help define the company’s values, mission, vision, and SWOT analysis. The balance scorecard is made up of four perspectives; financial, customer, learning and growing, and internal process. This paper will define each of the four perspectives objectives, performance measures, targets, and initiatives. The paper will also show how the perspectives relate
The purpose of this report is to understand what a big successful firm should apply and do in a well fast developed world to facelift and revamp itself over time and to overcome any situation. Strategic planning, innovation & managing change are the keys most of the companies in the commercial world embrace. It is a powerful technique, and one of the most important factors to design & paint a successful future path to all firms.
An organisation’s strategy plays an important role of providing direction of where company wants to be and how best to allocate the company’s resources to meet its objectives. The formulation of business strategies has evolved over the years and has been made more difficult in recent by the uncertain operating environments and global financial crises.
For an organization to be successful, it must employ good strategies in the running of its business. Strategies are needed to achieve the company’s objectives and give it a competitive advantage against its competitors. It determines the direction in which the organization is going in relation to its environment and how the business develops. Strategies are further segregated into corporate or business strategies where the focus is the formulation of plans and ideas to improve and increase its market share, and internal management strategies which
A strategy, according to Robbins and Barnwell (2002, p. 139) is “the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary to achieve the organisation’s goals”.