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Perspectives in Management

A-Frame^TM
Management Alignment Framework

One of the biggest challenges in delivering large scale change is the co-ordination of the "warring tribes" of management: governance, strategy, programs & projects, organisational units, processes and performance.

Established communities of practice, such as those found in the fields of project, technology, process and performance management, continue to mature and adopt increasingly higher quality, standard, systems of management.

Unfortunately, this progress has done little to improve the effectiveness of communication through the end to end cycle from strategy design to execution.

Each management area has its own unique perspective on operations driven by domain specific practices and tools. Translation errors continue to occur as communication flows between these areas and gaps often appear in the chain of execution responsibility.

In today's dynamic operating environment, these gaps amplify the risk of uncoordinated, inconsistent and inefficient activity.

As a direct response to heightened operational risk, organisations are increasingly looking to new management practices which govern the collaboration between stakeholders and encourage consistent strategic decision making.

Many organisations are now starting to see the benefits of establishing an explicit area of responsibility to govern multi-dimensional management alignment. Often this responsibility is entrusted with the program office or corporate finance and services. Whichever group is assigned, Allestis can help the relevant stakeholder groups enhance their capabilities to drive more effective, holistic transformation outcomes.

The A-Frame supports this approach by providing an overarching conceptual frame of reference to align organisation, industry and practice management systems.

Many common practices have already been integrated within the A-Frame including:

Managing Successful Programs from the UK OGC
Kaplan & Norton's Performance Management System
Value Based Management and Accounting
The Business Motivation Model from the Object Management Group
Value Chain and Supply Chain Management
Business Process Management and Activity Monitoring
Enterprise Architecture forms for SOA, Zachman and TOGAF
System Requirements, Use Cases and Specification Management

In its most simple form, the general framework can be easily implemented with an initial emphasis on the interactions at the borders of stakeholder responsibility, rather than the details within each domain.