From an organizational perspective, strategic alignment provides the ability to focus, to direct individual initiatives through common processes, procedures, values and operating principles toward the fulfillment of organization objectives. It sounds complicated, but aligning your organizational processes, functions and procedures with the business plan is nothing more than giving careful thought to every element that will influence getting the results you want.

Outcomes of strategic alignment

• People communicate openly and consistently
• Managers use strategy to deal with problems and issues
• Plans and systems support real work
• Goals are clear and results are measurable
• Planning occurs at all levels
• Different employee groups trust each other
• Values are expressed as firm objectives and individual values

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