Developing and Sustaining Innovative Organizations by Instilling Team Power

When managing today’s organizations, leadership and senior management have to contend with new technologies, rapidly transforming economic systems, markets undergoing metamorphosis, and a work force that is being rapidly exposed to a changing work culture and sense of values, In this environment, a dynamic leader should work with an organization that is intrinsically progressive and vibrant, adoptive and responsive, customer conscious and forward looking.

In order to assist top management develop

organizations with such characteristics, PSG&A works with a program that enables companies to effectively achieve the fulfillment of their vision and strategies. The Professionalization and Institutionalization Program (PIP) approach helps organizations that have a clear view of the future and a sense of purpose, to significantly improve on their implementation effectiveness. The module has been developed through a spectrum of multi-industry experiences in industrialized, newly industrializing and developing economies of the world.

PIP’s essential purpose is to enable organizations enhance their vitality through team power channellised to meet ambitious targets. The program beings by assembling a project team having an interactive working arrangement with different organizational levels.

  • The first step of exercise conducted by working teams diagnoses the building blocks of the existing organization. The evaluation process helps in determining the effectiveness of decision making processes in various functional and business units. Values and principles that determine working norms are evaluated. Further, the quality of functions as they relate to competitive forces and market needs are assessed. Organizational and personal values, habits and personal sensitivities are analyzed in great detail. On the basis of these analyses the organization’s strengths and
    weaknesses are assessed the evaluation process includes interactive consensus building with senior management and leadership.

  • During the second step the PIP module builds on the axiom that a successful competitive strategy is concerned with effective actions in the market place to respond to customer needs, as well as superior
    management of the processes, by which decisions are made and actions are taken within the organization. In consequence, several areas including human resources, the strategic management system, the corporate communication process, objectives / mission management to influence hard
    and soft factors of the organization are re-designed. The overall organization is developed through interactive mechanisms and a consensus process that ensures management’s commitment.

  • During the third and final step, multiple task forces are organized to initiate the process of professionalization and institutionalization. Management workshops are conducted to develop appropriate knowledge bases, skills and attitudes required to facilitate change and to build support of people in new directions to cover the entire spectrum of management issues, The evolving change processes get documented in manuals that act as references for long term change management as well as a resource for defining and / or prescribing corporate direction. Through continuous review and effective implementation of the PIP module, a responsive, creative organization emerges.

A total PIP module constitutes dealing with several hard (strategy, structure, systems) and soft (skills, style, shared values, staff, spirit) organizational elements. that are in constant flux due to their individual responses to dynamic, competitive market conditions. The behavior of each element puts forth a challenge. Effort is made to use all organizational elements together to develop mutually supportive working processes that create an esprit-de-corps response to dynamics. For PIP to be successful, it must be viewed as a

long-term development program, and it should be conducted under the close supervision of top management.

Progressive companies implement strategies effectively by instilling in its humanware, a global perspective, an attitude that will anticipate and adapt to change, manage complexities and outperform resourceful competitors. Leadership must continually strengthen its most valuable resource people with a dynamic culture built on simple and focused systems and structural foundations to create a formidable force. Such an effort will promise a superior realization and implementation of a company’s vision and goals.