Organizational Alignment Research Model

3x Organizational Alignment™ Research Model and Framework
As performance pressure and complexity accelerates, we created an organizational alignment research model and framework to help companies and leadership teams to perform at their peak.

Our clients tell us that it is more challenging each year to succeed. Leaders tell us this means bigger goals, increased complexity, and tighter budgets. Employees tell us this means higher expectations, an increased pace of change, and the need to do more with less.

Yet, some companies, leaders, and teams significantly outperform their peers. We wanted to know why. So we launched a research initiative to understand what distinguishes the high growth winners from the losers.

Our presupposition? That Organizational Alignment (the optimum combination of business strategy, corporate culture, and workplace talent) makes a performance and high growth difference.

What The High Growth Research Found?
The data supports our 3x Organizational Alignment Research Model to an astounding degree. Based upon research of 410 companies across 8 industries, highly aligned companies grow revenue 58% faster and are 72% more profitable while significantly outperforming their unaligned peers in terms of:

Retaining customers 2.23-to-1
Satisfying customers 3.2-to-1
Leading teams 8.71-to-1
Engaging employees 16.8-to-1

To see the 7 high growth factors that matter most, download the updated 3x Organizational Alignment™ Research Findings now

The Organizational Alignment Research model and framework used 26 independent variables in the areas of business strategy, organizational culture, and talent and measured them against 15 dependent variables of organizational performance in terms of financial and non-financial performance.

While all 26 ingredients in the organizational alignment recipe significantly impacted performance and any alignment factor taken alone will not work in isolation, seven high growth factors matter most in creating strategic clarity, a high performing culture, and differentiating your talent.

3x Organizational Alignment™ Research Model and Framework
The optimum combination of business strategy, corporate culture, and talent to maximize performance using 26 independent variables measured against 15 dependent variables of organizational performance.

Strategic Clarity Accounts for 31% of the Difference
In highly aligned companies, employees clearly understand the business strategy, have no doubt it will lead to success, and believe that it can be implemented in their unique competitive landscape and workplace culture. Unfortunately, leaders believe that their plans for success are twice as clear as their employees.

Is your strategy truly clear enough to succeed?
Healthy and High Performing Culture Accounts for 40% of the Difference
In highly aligned companies, employees trust leadership, clearly understand the desired corporate culture, frequently observe the majority of leaders modeling the desired culture, and regularly feel the culture helps to accelerate, not hinder, the business strategy.

Is the way work gets done at your company helping or hindering your performance?
Differentiated Talent Accounts for 29% of the Difference
In highly aligned companies, employees universally believe the quality of talent at the company creates a competitive edge, repeatedly observe the company hiring and retaining top performers, and continually have unfettered access to the resources necessary to succeed.

Do you have the right talent for your unique strategy and culture?

To learn more about getting aligned using our organizational alignment research model and the 7 factors that matter most, download 3x Organizational Alignment™ Research Findings

Having taken on a new executive leadership role, one of my first calls was to LSA Global to help my leadership team to design, implement, and cascade clear strategic plans. First, LSA helped our leadership team identify the strategy, culture, and talent areas that mattered most to create organizational alignment.

Then they helped facilitate the design of a strategic growth plan that is clear, compelling, believable, and implementable. We now have 100% commitment from an aligned leadership team and key stakeholders going forward.

I would recommend LSA to anyone who wants to create high levels of strategic alignment, growth, and performance.

Erik Arvesen
Vice President, General Manager

The LSA customized Organizational Alignment Survey gave us a comprehensive view of how our employees experience our culture, talent, and strategy.

The systemic approach provided us with a great forum to discuss the strengths and opportunities in our organization, and then to quickly get focused on the key actions critical to executing our business and people strategies.

Mark Forrest
General Manager, FSM Division

As a high growth agency with cutting edge talent, we hired LSA Global to help clarify our strategy and work with our executive leadership team to help implement strategic changes in a way that made sense for our unique culture.

The work was so successful that we also hired them to coach our key leaders. LSA has been instrumental in helping us transition to a new leadership team and triple revenue. In this age of useless consultants, I highly recommend their practical and business-oriented approach to strategy, culture, and talent.

David Bentley
General Manager

You have become our premier change leadership strategic partner. Your expertise in the human side of change is unparalleled and enabled our company to successfully implement our ERP Solution under challenging and ever-changing circumstances.

Thank you for your practical and outcome-oriented approach.

Ted Ramlet
CIO & SVP

We recently hired LSA to help us take our client delivery methodology to the next level as we continue to grow and help our clients succeed.

The custom strategy and design session exceeded our expectations. They really understood our business and delivered within tight time frames. They were the best I have seen for this type of complex, visible, and strategic work.

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I would recommend LSA to anyone looking to take their strategy and strategic execution to the next level.

Rob Sturgeon
EVP Client Delivery

At a time of change in our marketplace, LSA Global did an exceptional job helping our executive team create strategic clarity by helping us to define, clarify, and prioritize our corporate vision, mission, values, differentiation, target clients, strategic priorities, success metrics and key roles.

They beautifully navigated a very difficult and fuzzy situation, respectfully cleared out all of the cultural elephants, and shared impactful insights and leadership development theories along the way. They have transformed our business.

Laurie Sewell
President & CEO

LSA helped us to create the strategic clarity and alignment we needed for our team to thrive.

The practical, no-nonsense, and outcome-oriented approach really helped us all get on the same page strategically and set us up to be a high performing leadership team to focus on what matters most.

Michael Carter
VP Human Resources

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Noelle Van Vlierbergen
Human Resources Director

The strategy and alignment work with our leadership team was absolutely transformational. The decisions we made combined with the transparency, communication, and accountability were exactly what we needed. Thank you!

Dr. Raphael B. Merriman M.D
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

This was an extremely effective executive strategy session that helped our executive leadership team efficiently navigate through our core strategic objectives. It was exactly what we needed. The approach was practical and valuable for our specific business and market.

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Blake Krikorian
CEO

LSA has a tremendous ability to distil complex, multilayered challenges into meaningful, impactful, and clear strategies and action plans.

The time we invested as a leadership team to get aligned was well spent in gaining laser focus and identifying ways to prioritize what was meaningful individually and as a team. The facilitation and leadership style was direct, firm, and compassionate.

LSA provided the high level thinking and support for our team to co-create in a rapidly scaling business.

Bindu Garapaty, PsyD
VP, Talent and Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity

We selected LSA Global over 5 other companies to help our key executives improve their overall communication and executive presentation capabilities. LSA exceeded our expectations.

I highly recommend LSA to any executive team looking to better organize and more effectively deliver key executive-level messages — especially when the stakes are high.

Todd Power
Office of the CEO

Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant. The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

Simon Jefferson
Managing Director

Working on our HR Strategy was so eye opening. I feel so much better prepared to be successful as a leader individually and collectively.

Now the entire HR leadership team can drive our growth strategy forward in a way that makes sense.

Kristin Talastas
Director, HR Shared Services

Having recently completed an acquisition that doubled our size and geographic reach, we needed to redefine our “go forward” strategic plan to address the increasing commoditization of our marketplace.

I was very impressed with the thoughtful and practical way that LSA Global was able to bring our leadership teams together to gain focus, buy-in, and commitment to a compelling strategy that we created together.

Jon Troen
CEO