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1 Home Dictionary Members Methods Start Page 7-S Framework (McKinsey) Register Log in Help Change & Organization Communication & Skills Decision-making & Valuation Ethics & Responsibility Finance & Investing HRM Knowledge & Intangibles Leadership Marketing Program & Project Strategy Supply Chain & Quality Explanation of the 7-S Framework of McKinsey. WHAT IS THE 7-S FRAMEWORK? DESCRIPTION The 7-S Framework of McKinsey is a management model that describes 7 factors to organize a company in an holistic and effective way. Together these factors determine the way in which a corporation operates. Managers should take into account all seven of these factors, to be sure of successful implementation of a strategy. Large or small. They're all interdependent, so if you fail to pay proper attention to one of them, this may effect all others as well. On top of that, the relative importance of each factor may vary over time. ORIGIN OF THE 7-S FRAMEWORK. HISTORY The 7-S Framework was first mentioned in "The Art Of Japanese Management" by Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos in They had been investigating how Japanese industry had been so successful. At around the same time that Tom Peters and Robert Waterman were exploring what made a company excellent. The Seven S model was born at a meeting of these four authors in It appeared also in "In Search of Excellence" by Peters and Waterman, and was taken up as a basic tool by the global management consultancy company McKinsey. Since then it is known as their 7-S model. 12manage for: Managers Consultants Trainers Professors Business Schools MBA Students Ads by Google THE MEANING OF THE 7 SS Shared Values (also called Superordinate Goals). The interconnecting center of McKinsey's model is: Shared Values. What does the organization stands for and what it believes in. Central beliefs and attitudes. Compare: Strategic Intent Strategy Plans for the allocation of a firms scarce resources, over time, to reach identified goals. Environment, competition, customers. Structure The way in which the organization's units relate to each other: centralized, functional divisions (top-down); decentralized; a matrix, a network, a holding, etc. BPM in a Down Economy Free 28-min On-Demand Podcast. Learn How BPM Improves ROI Today. Savvion.com/BPM-Podcast Systems The procedures, processes and routines that characterize how the work should be done: financial systems; recruiting, promotion and performance appraisal systems; information systems. Staff Numbers and types of personnel within the organization. Style Cultural style of the organization and how key managers behave in achieving the organization's goals. Compare: Management Styles. Skills 1 of 5 5/29/ :21 AM

2 2 of 5 5/29/ :21 AM Distinctive capabilities of personnel or of the organization as a whole. Compare: Core Competences. STRENGTHS OF THE 7-S MODEL. BENEFITS Diagnostic tool for understanding organizations that are ineffective. Guides organizational change. Combines rational and hard elements with emotional and soft elements. Managers must act on all Ss in parallel and all Ss are interrelated. Book: Ethan M. Rasiel, Paul N. Friga - The McKinsey Mind: Understanding and Implementing the Problem Solving Tools and Management Techniques - 7S FRAMEWORK SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP Visit the Special Interest Group 7S FRAMEWORK FORUM Ads by Google Leaders Net Framework Business Move Strategy Model Recent User Comments duygu bayrakci - UK Google and its success with 7S Caroline - Zimbabwe 7 S model in the post merger phase Medhavinee - India Effectiveness of 7 s framework Tony Gyau - The Netherlands Does the 7-S Model still holds true today? "Hi I am a MBA student and I need to write an assignment about Google`s success. How can I explain its success with 7S framework? Any ideas?? Thanks a lot." "I'm a Masters student looking at the post merger phase of a university. How can I apply the 7 S model in studying the post merger phase? Please assist" "The model given in 7S framework is so exhaustive that it includes almost all the aspects of the organisation. - The Superordinate goals provide the clear cut lines on which the employees of the organisation have to work and what the company expects form them. - Structure, systems and strategy provide the roadmap through which the employees can understand how to go about the work. - Staff, styles and skills provide the organisation with a lucid set of HAVEs and HAVE NOTs. All these things put together gives an organisation a proper shape and systematised way of functioning..." "Does the 7-S Model still holds true in today's business environment? Companies are increasing outsourcing their functions, and headquarters are only becoming a virtual company. Look at a company like Nike which has become successful without actually owning the production facilities of their own. Instead they outsourced the production around the world. Where do we stand in today's environment, where companies can be virtual and yet make huge profits, with the 7-S Model. I think the time has come to re-define the framework to suit today's globalisation." len - uk walmart-7s "how would walmarts-mckinsey 7s framework Strategic Leadership MIT executive program featuring a new strategic manangement framework mitsloan.mit.edu/execed Organizational Leadership Earn a BS or MS in Org. Leadership at Azusa Pacific Univ. 100% Online. APU.edu Leadership Training Free book by world famous business expert Dale Carnegie. Downloadable! DaleCarnegie.com 10 Leadership Taboos Best-selling CEO Insights Book. Secrets, Characteristics of Leaders Leadership Business and Leadership News From Industry Leaders- FT.com FT.com

3 framework Eric - Botswana 7S <> Leadership, Management Mahamood - India Limiting choice of 'S'? John T. - Greece 7-S Framework Deborah Hard and Poulsen - Denmark Soft S's Carlo - Netherlands 7S Confrontation Matrix would be?" Best User Comments "How do you link the 7 s framework with leadership and management. Because when discussing leadership and management most writers say leaders set the major objectives and strategies and managers will transmit and implement this strategies. But what confuses me is that stategy is part of the technical skills( hard skills) which is taken care by managers." "While reading for my management course, I couldn't help but wonder if the choice of an alphabet limits the scope and skews the interpretation of a model. When formulating a model, how easy / difficult is it to find a word that starts with a particular letter that succinctly describes a concept? To my untrained mind, values like respect, collaboration, openness and others seem to fit in just as well and they don't start with a 'S'. Consider other frameworks out there like the C or the 4P in marketing. Did the choice of a particular alphabet leave out important building blocks? I for one can't tell.. " "1) We should have in mind that, according to the creators of this Framework, number 7 is not of great importance. It could be 6 or 8 etc. 2) I believe that the strong (another S -!!!-) basis of this Framework is Humans/People of an organization. They can be found behind every one of these "S"s. ) If the Framework is faced as "open" and "dynamic" and, also, from a holistic perspective, it can be an interesting tool for contemporary organizations." "The seven S's can be distinguished in hard S's (the top-: Strategy, Structure and Systems) which are relatively easy to identify and influence. The other 4 S's are more difficult to identify and influence, becuase they are less tangible and more cultural by nature, and are sometimes neglected in major change efforts and mergers. However, they are just as important as the other! The 7S model is a constant reminder for that fact." "You can create a 7S Confrontation Matrix with all 7 S-es listed both horizontally and vertically. In the cells or intersections you list the expected impact / potential problem areas / solutions of a strategy or a strategy change. This allows you to make a holistic and structured analysis and prevents you skip major attention areas." Sibusiso Communication "how do you link the 7S Model to Thungo - SouthAfrica problems related to communication in a work place?" of 5 5/29/ :21 AM

4 4 of 5 5/29/ :21 AM Vinod - India sajeev - India Mike Booth - UK Applications of the 7-S Framework Centrality of Shared Values Sensitivity & Sense of Humour Heylen - Belgium Success "While some models of organizational effectiveness go in and out of fashion, one that has persisted is the McKinsey 7S framework. Developed in the early 1980s by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, two consultants working at the McKinsey & Company consulting firm, the basic premise of the model is that there are seven internal aspects of an organization that need to be aligned if it is to be successful. The 7S model can be used in a wide variety of situations where an alignment perspective is useful, for example to help you: - Improve the performance of a company; - Examine the likely effects of future changes within a company; - Align departments and processes during a merger or acquisition; - Determine how best to implement a proposed strategy." "The Ss in the 7s theory are essentially the very cardinal ingredients of a successful organization. All surrounding six Ss are shown or perceived to be having a direct relation towards the S of Shared Value. It can always happen that the style confronts the shared value rather shared value influences the style in professionally managed organizations. Hence, it is best described as the resonance of shared values and style influences the success of the organization in knitting all other Ss to be successful." "Leadership is crucial but this is not vested in one person but emanates from congruence in the shared values exhibited by the leaders in the organisation. Add a large measure of sensitivity and sense of humour and you have an effective organisation that has synergy - an understanding of how the energy of the organisation is used sensibly. Our current situation in the times of the credit crunch clearly point the finger at the lack of the latter." "Note to the editor... Had a typo in my last comment. What was meant to say is that communicating success (or failure) can influence the organization - even with unchanged 7S's. Communicating success can cause for a surge in the effectiveness of an organization and communicating failure can cause for the organization to come to a grinding halt or to flounder for a while." ENTER A NEW TIP, IDEA, COMMENT OR QUESTION Name:*? Country:*

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McKinsey 7s Model for Organization s Effectiveness

McKinsey 7s Model for Organization s Effectiveness 1. Definition McKinsey 7s Model for McKinsey 7s Model is a tool that analyzes a firm s organizational design by looking at 7 key internal elements (Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared values, Style, Staff