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Managing Cross-Divisional Collaboration and Strategy Maps

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Steven Bleistein, Japan

Managing Cross-Divisional Collaboration and Strategy Maps

Often, achievement of a Critical Success Factor requires collaboration of two or more divisions across organizational boundaries. For example, to increase sales of new products in overseas markets, collaboration between international sales, R&D, and marketing might be required.
However, these divisions tend to be managed separately, and might also have separate divisional strategy maps.
While strategy maps can help in working out a collaborative relationship between vertical organizational entities, strategy maps and BSC seem to offer little for managing horizontal collaboration relationships, responsibilities and accountabilities compared to managing vertical commitments.
I would be interested in community member experiences, and what have you done to address this issue?
 

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Rick McPherson
Teacher, United States
 

Cross Functional Collaboration - Alignment Maps

I have used an "Alignment Chart" (or map) to show on the right the top goals/objectives of the busin... Sign up

 
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Arthi Sairaman
Project Manager, United States
 

Managing Cross-divisional Collaboration

Alignment of commitments and goals at the senior divisional leadership level is going to be critical... Sign up

 
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Elizabeth Coleman
Innovation Consultant, New Zealand
 

Collaboration of Two or More Divisions Across Organizational Boundaries

You can also establish a cross-functional board at level three in the organization, reporting to the... Sign up

 
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Eric Buining
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Cross-divisional Collaboration

Horizontal and vertical collaboration can indeed be establised by using alignment maps. However, the... Sign up

 
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Mohamed Hisham, Sri Lanka
 

Practical Collaboration of Two or More Divisions

In layman terms, collaboration begins with a broader and open minded thinking starting with division... Sign up

 
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Steven Bleistein, Japan
 

Response from Original Poster

I appreciate all of the comments and reactions to my original post. Some very good advice and insigh... Sign up

 
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Carel Venter
Business Mentor, South Africa
 

Cross Divisional Collaboration Strategy

Based on my experience, it is possible and also crucial to optimize inter-divisional synergy. The a... Sign up

 
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Francois Aye
Management Consultant, Switzerland
 

Collaboration is an Intangible Asset

Collaboration is indeed a must as the most value-creating processes often cross units of business. C... Sign up

 
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Essens
Strategy Consultant, Netherlands
 

Cross Divisional Collaboration

Collaboration is a basic requirement for achieving adequate responses to complex problems. Networkin... Sign up

 
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Eric Buining
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Inherent Simplicity

The basic assumption made within this discussion is that reality is complex. Complexity is usually d... Sign up

 
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Vivek Joshi, India
 

Cross Divisional Collaboration

First examine if the objective is important to the organization as a whole ie, is it a part of the f... Sign up

 
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Eric Buining
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Collaboration and Sun Tzu

The basic assumption underlying the BSC is that the Critical Success Factors (CSF's) are included ba... Sign up

 
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Deepa
Consultant, India
 

Cross Divisional Collaboration

I think in tandem with what @Peter Essens is saying. Cross divisional collaboration cannot be on pap... Sign up

 
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masvimbo
Manager, Zimbabwe
 

When Managing Cross-divisional Collaboration is Easy

I think that if the benefits and advantages of the collaboration are clearly spelled out and if such... Sign up

 
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Mohamed Hisham, Sri Lanka
 

Communicate Goal to Achieve Cross Divisional Collaboration

Agree with Masvimbo totally, its all about clear communication and how the communication been execut... Sign up

 
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Eric Buining
Consultant, Netherlands
 

Networking and Communication are not the Answer

Most of the comments I have seen are trying to solve symptoms and not root causes. As long as depar... Sign up

 
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Amir Khodaparast, United Kingdom
 

CoBRA Programmes and a Collaboration Blueprint

This is an interesting discussion as it centres around our entire business value and propositions. W... Sign up

 
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John Thomas
Business Consultant, Canada
 

Cross Divisional Collaboration Strategy

When the Strategy Map is cascaded down through the organization the KSFs should be mandatory to ensu... Sign up

 
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
 

Example of “Normalized Indicator” and “Composite Indicator”

@John Thomas: Very interesting... Please can you give one example how you could use such a “Normaliz... Sign up

 
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John Thomas
Business Consultant, Canada
 

Example of “Normalized Indicator” and “Composite Indicator”

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More on Strategy Maps:
Summary
Discussion Topics
topic Should the Strategy be Communicated? How Much? To Whom?
👀Managing Cross-Divisional Collaboration and Strategy Maps
🔥 How to Use a Strategy Map to Perform a Quick Strategy Check
topic Selection in Customer Perspective of Strategy Maps
topic Strategy Maps for Customer Service Organizations
topic Successful Cases of Strategy Maps
topic Are Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map the Same?
topic Strategy Maps for Public Sector Organizations / Government
topic Synergy in Strategy Maps?
topic BSC or OKR?
topic Disadvantages / Problems with Strategy Maps
topic Strengths of Strategy Maps
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SIG Leader

Do you know a lot about Strategy Maps? Become our SIG Leader

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