Poll analysis: Drivers of sustainable organisation performance
Angela Baron analyses the findings of a poll on the drivers of sustainable organisation performance and draws out the key messages.
In our last poll we asked you about the importance of the six key issues we identified in the first phase of the work as potential drivers of sustainable organisation performance. We asked you to rate each of these issues in terms of the importance to your business.
Your answers reveal that shared purpose is ranked as the most important issue, with 68% of you rating this as extremely important and a further 20% as very important. Second came the issue of alignment, aligning stated intentions with action, values with behaviour, policies and processes with desired outcomes and individual roles and objectives with strategic priorities. Sixty per cent of you rated this as extremely important and 27% as very important.
Next came the issues of balancing short- and long-term horizons or the extent to which your organisation is able to meet its needs in the short term while also planning for the long term. Forty-three per cent of you rated this as extremely important and 40% as very important.
The issue of assessment and evaluation or the ability to continually assess the impact of strategies and action and feed back information was rated as extremely important by 39% and very important by 32%. Distributed leadership or the extent to which leadership responsibility is devolved down the organisation was found to be extremely important by 38% of you and very important by 34%.
Finally, 30% of you felt that the locus of engagement where organisations understand what aspects of their job or part of the organisation individuals are engaged with is extremely important and 35% of you felt it is very important.
Clearly all our issues are considered to be important by the vast majority, although 10% found assessment and evaluation unimportant and 9% felt distributed leadership was not an issue. However, fewer than 5% of you found any of the other issues unimportant.
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