Executional Excellence

Executional Excellence is at the heart of Synesis' methodology. While it is widely known that strategies are of no use unless they are executed properly, the concept of Executional Excellence finally provides a systematic approach that enables managers to determine and systematically improve the execution capabilities of their organization.

The concept of Executional Excellence builds on a large-scale research effort at the Handelshochschule Leipzig that includes the analysis of detailed data from management practices of more than 2000 managers and key individual contributors at 117 organizations in 44 corporations worldwide. This data has originally been collected in the context of Synesis' consulting work with leading global corporations to improve their "Organizational IQ", a broad measure of the fitness of organizations, developed at Stanford University Business School. While Organizational IQ evaluates a wide range of management practices in the areas of innovation, strategy development, and execution, Executional Excellence is all about creating organizations that "get things done" -without wasting time and resources.


Executional Excellence:
An organization’s capability to achieve goals with minimal waste of time and resources



Research Identified Four Distinct Levels of Executional Excellence







Characteristics of Level 4 Execution Companies







Synesis Uses a Streamlined Process to Help Clients Get to the Next Level in Execution







Case Example: Raising Executional Excellence at a Corporate Sales Organization

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  • Why is Organizational IQ important to your business? Organizational IQ is a quantitative measure of an organization's effectiveness in information distribution, decision making, and execution.
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  • What are the key principles of Organizational IQ? External Information Awareness, Internal Knowledge Dissemination, Effective Decision Architecture, Organizational Focus, Continuous Innovation..
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  • How will Synesis help improve strategic execution and process excellence?
    (i.e. what does a typical project look like?)     Synesis offers an integrated set of tools to bring the whole Organizational IQ methodology to life.
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