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Explanation of the 7-S Framework of McKinsey. |
What is the 7-S Framework? DescriptionThe 7-S Framework of McKinsey is a management model that describes 7 factors to organize a company in an holistic and effective way. Together these factors determine the way in which a corporation operates. Managers should take into account all seven of these factors, to be sure of successful implementation of a strategy. Large or small. They're all interdependent, so if you fail to pay proper attention to one of them, this may effect all others as well. On top of that, the relative importance of each factor may vary over time.
Origin of the 7-S Framework. HistoryThe 7-S Framework was first mentioned in "The Art Of Japanese Management" by Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos in 1981. They had been investigating how Japanese industry had been so successful. At around the same time that Tom Peters and Robert Waterman were exploring what made a company excellent. The Seven S model was born at a meeting of these four authors in 1978. It appeared also in "In Search of Excellence" by Peters and Waterman, and was taken up as a basic tool by the global management consultancy company McKinsey. Since then it is known as their 7-S model.
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| § Wallace (INDIA) | Answer | "Hello Mahamood, 4P's refer to Product, Price, Place, Promtion. But there is no end to it. Actually Politics of a country is the most important P. Similarly Packaging, Power, Pace are also equally significant. Similarly although you speak of three C's, we can add as many C's as we want." | |
| § Nilesh (USA) | 7S Framework | "It is really amazing to see how well models can fit into words from same alphabet. Or usually things can be divided into two/three main categories. Beyond the limitation or possibilities with words underlying theoretical concepts are more important. Key aspect of 7s framework lies in the interaction of hard and soft constructs such as strategy and style etc. Now any scheme that can comprehensively and distinctly cover these hard and soft factors would suffice." | |
| § Wojtek (Scotland) | Frameworks | "Every framework aims to simplify things. That's what they are all about. You wont find a perfect one. One letter of alphabet is used to help you remember that's all. Basically it is up to you if you use a framework in a given situation or not." |
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| § Sarah (Malawi) | Leadership & Management | "there is a figure in a book by Watson (1983), its got demarcations for the hard and soft triangle. the hard one is for management and the soft one is for leadership. it might be of assistance" |
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| § swaraj vinjapuri (USA) | Hard and Soft S's | "Thanks Daeborah for your comments, I echo your thoughts. The last 4-S are more difficult and often neglected and are the major reason companies and organizations fail." | |
| § John T. (Greece) | Hard and Soft S's | "It would be better if you have mentioned the writer of these thoughts !!!" | |
| § Alan (UK) | Soft Ss and Hard Ss in Management | "At the time Pascale and Tanner and Athos wrote their book The Art of Japanese Management (1981), managers in US (Western) firms were preoccupied with the hard Ss. Japanese managers were believed to be superior, due to the attention they gave to the soft Ss. Partly because of this book and the 7S Framework in the last decades the overall trend in the US (and in Europe to a lesser degree) has been directed towards the soft Ss." |
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| § Heylen (Belgium) | Success | "Rather than including "Success" as an outcome as suggested by Prof J. Weber, it could have been included as a factor as well. The perception of having success or the absence of having will have a large impact on the effectiveness of an organization. A simple communication of lack of failure can sometime paralyze an organization, even when all other resources have been increased/improved." |
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