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Intention Hierarchy
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Intention Hierarchy |
| Problem | The company needs to align competency management with business strategy | |
| Context | The organisation's situation in the market is characterized by costant change and turbulence. The need for competence in terms of type and volume changes rapidly. The organisation is developing into a knowledge-based organisation.The organisation's way of working with competence should eminate from the business strategy, support the running of the business and ensure access to the right competence in all the links in the value chains where the organisation wants to compete. | |
| Forces | Short term profitability requirements may reduce the achievement of the solution because the solution is of a long term nature. This is more likely to happen if the ESI company is operating in a highly deregulated market. On the other hand, turbulence may force the company to align its business competency with its strategy. The organisational culture has an impact on the willingness of employees to adapt and change according to the solution. The company's form of management affects the degree to which the problem can be tackled. When there is a low degree of following-up of decisions made, together with a high degree of independence for local units, there will be difficulty in communicating plans and carrying out organisational changes. | |
| Solution | Competency and business planning should be
integrated in the company's strategic and business plans. These efforts
can be grouped into three types.The first group concerns aligning and integration
at specific levels of the organisation. Measures here would be:
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| Rationale | Competency development, customer demand, strategic planning and business planning all are interrelated and hence need to be integrated at all levels so as to avoid the existance of isolated islands of decision-making and achieve goal fulfillment. The implementation of this solution will ensure that business strategies and competence management will be better aligned with each other. This provides an integrated set of activities relating to all levels of an organisation. | |
| Consequences | The organisation will be better equipped to meet the requirements of operating competitively in a deregulated ESI market. | |
| Authors | KTH, Vattenfall AB, Sweden | |
| Related Patterns | Change Process Patterns
This pattern is a subpattern of :ManagingOrganisationalHumanResources This pattern is related to: AttractESICompetency This pattern has the subpattern:CustomerDrivenCompetencyDevelopment This pattern has the subpattern:StructuredCompetencyManagementRoutines This pattern has the subpattern: CompetencyManagementAsStrategy Product Patterns
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| Related Documents | ESPRIT project ELEKTRA deliverable CAROLUS, FREJA | |
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| Known Applications | Vattenfall AB, Sweden | |
| Annotations | This model describes a workable goal structure for the alignment of business strategy and competency management. | |
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