Organisational behaviour
McKinsey 7S
A company ‘health check’ audit tool.
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The 7S framework (McKinsey)
McKinsey’s 7S Framework likewise stresses the need for harmony, but between seven different elements in a successful organisation.
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To conduct an organisational health and alignment review.
Use it to diagnose a strategy or performance gap without limiting the discussion to structure and other visible ‘hard’ factors.
Extracted signals
Strengths, limits, and pitfalls.
McKinsey 7S
- Focus on the connections between elements. The strongest insight is usually not that one element is weak, but that a strategic promise is contradicted by structure, systems, skills or leadership behaviour.
- Apply the framework to a defined strategic outcome, not to the organisation in the abstract.
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- Do not reduce the exercise to seven independent checklists or assume internal alignment guarantees success. Strategy must also fit customers, competitors and the wider environment.
The 7S framework (McKinsey)
- Analyse the hard and soft elements together, then prioritise the few misalignments most likely to obstruct strategy execution.
- Review three relatively ‘hard’ elements:
- Strategy – the choices that define where and how the organisation intends to win.
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- The framework improves the questions, not the answers. Culture, values and capability usually change more slowly than a strategy document.
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