Organizational Zen™

Organizational Zen™  

Business Transformation Assessments and Roadmaps

Do you find your business is in an endless cycle of reactiveness? Is your leadership team focusing on crisis management rather than developing a strategic vision for sustainable growth?

Aldebaran Solutions provides Organizational Zen™ assessments to analyze your organization's ability to achieve a state of inherent stability for sustained performance and growth.

The Zen organization is introspective; it relies on established internal structures, systems and information derived from those business systems.  The result is a business ecosystem that is inherently stable and continuously improving. The concept of Organizational Zen™ is an effortless flow of value-added activities within processes that are maintained and monitored continuously.

Organizational Zen™ focuses on four main pillars:
Intent, Stewardship, Process Ecosystem and Growth.

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Aldebaran Solution's proprietary Organizational Zen™ assessment analyze business system health establishing a baseline for actionable transformation roadmaps. Assessments workstreams focus on people, process and technology - including data. Leveraging SWOT, Lean, DMAIC, Six Sigma and other business transformation enablers.

INTENT
Within the Intent pillar, an Organizational Zen™ assessment examines how leadership executes on its strategies. Are mechanisms in place for fostering the intent of the strategies? Are tactical and strategic business strata aligned with the mission, vision, and values of the organization?

The organizations intention and aspiration sit at the very top of the enterprise. Whether these intentions are socialized or not, through action they permeate the organization's hierarchy, often with little resistance.

STEWARDSHIP
Whether you are the CEO who started the company in her basement, or the newbie on his first day at work, stewardship is all about putting intent into action and understanding that you play a role in something that is bigger than yourself. The stewardship pillar seeks to understand if the organization has normalized process stewardship and how soft skills are nurtured.

Normalizing "stewardship" in organizations cannot be forced, it is a result of developing servant leaders as described by Robert K. Greenleaf in "The Servant As Leader".
PROCESS ECOSYSTEM
The process ecosystem pillar examines how resilient and capable current systems respond to business demands. Processes should be capable of recognizing and responding quickly to anomalies throughout the value chain. Process excellence should promote generative thinking and be inherently resistant to, or be buffered from, cyclical trends and external forces.

A shared purpose can only be cultivated in an organization where process transparency is celebrated as a mechanism for breaking down "silos" for shared goals.
GROWTH
Growth is not a linear concept. In the growth pillar, ensuring the organization is maturing on the same relative trajectory across the organization will facilitate sustainable growth and provide the greatest value for the stakeholders.

Sharing the vision and promoting generative thinking will encourage innovation as a catalyst for growth.

Where do you stand on the Organizational Zen™ maturity curve?

Pioneering - Little to no best practice elements are in place because of low experience in the industry vertical.
Divergent - Some systems are in place but still fractured in strategy and performance.  Reactiveness is institutionalized because of business silos, and performance is 80% off of top quartile standards.
Aspiring - Some reactiveness persists with less than 25-30% of business activities deemed reactive. Some understanding of process demands exist but lack of ability to execute effectively persists. 
Competent - Generally proactive with some predictive measure in place and cost are stabilized.  Disconnection persists between the tactical and strategic levels.  
Generative - Fully integrated business framework with forecasting and regularly corrective reviews of strategic, operational and tactical performance. Within 10% of top quartile standards.

Assessment tool

Organizational Zen™ assessments analyze your organization's ability to achieve a state of inherent stability for sustained high performance and growth.  The four pillars: Intent, Stewardship, Process Ecosystem and Growth provide a means of associating a relationship or attribute to each assessment question.   The resulting Organizational Zen™ score is an average from all four scores.

Learn more about the assessment approach here:  https://www.aldebaransolutions.com/knowledge-base/

Assessment tool

Organizational Zen™ assessments analyze your organization's ability to achieve a state of inherent stability for sustained high performance and growth.  The four pillars: Intent, Stewardship, Process Ecosystem and Growth provide a means of associating a relationship or attribute to each assessment question.   The resulting Organizational Zen™ score is an average from all four scores.

Learn more about the assessment approach here:  https://www.aldebaransolutions.com/knowledge-base/