Strategic business alignment is crucial to the success of an organization: it increases the organizational performance. Most importantly, all employees should understand the strategic objectives of their organization, be able to buy into them and enact them: they should have a clear line of sight on their organization’s ambitions and have faith in the corporate ability to achieve them.
Living Stone creates the necessary understanding with all stakeholders of your strategic objectives with your organizational or product/service brands. We develop the tools that support your efforts to create strategic alignment. Awareness tools (internal media, intranet content, town hall meetings, etc.) open the path to understanding, changing attitudes and eventually supportive behavior.
Creating an open communication culture that aims at sharing the strategic perspective of the organization clears the path to trust between all stakeholders. Employees have to trust management to live up to its promises and behave like a beacon; external stakeholders need to be convinced of the corporate ability considered necessary to fully achieve the ambitions put up front.
This calls for transparent and interactive strategies to keep abreast of your stakeholders’ changing opinions. You need to get rid of inhibitors that influence stakeholders’ understanding of your goals. You want them to focus on your story and enjoy the sight.
Under the scientific guidance of prof. Dr. Paul Gemmel, Living Stone analyses your service model and aligns your employees with it.
“Banks have to accept that they were part of a “greed process” and apologize for it and they need to take responsibility for the fact that many of their products were not understood by the public and they abused that lack of understanding.” Prof. Dr. Cees van Riel, Reputation Institute
"Living Stone's communication tools have become a familiar part of HR&O communication for all Atos Origin employees. They help to create a strong profile for HR&O as a highly professional department with a deep commitment to the people at Atos Origin."
HR&O service delivery manager, Atos Origin