Benefits

With openaxyz you  have the methods and knowledge of best practices of executives and expert consultants available at your fingertips.  If you follow our 10 steps from A to Z you will see immediate results. If you start having our Nine Strategic Conversations on a monthly basis, you will deepen your own strategic skills and also grow and develop that of your team members.

For the first time you have a real leadership and strategy tool which will embed strategy design and execution as a visible competence.

The openaxyz framing methodology with its supporting social collaboration toolset allows any user who follows the logical and simple structured steps and templates to be effective in

  • Applying a simple and evolved strategy design and execution processes
  • Learning practical strategic thinking, conceptualisation and visualisation using simple guidelines
  • Gain new perspectives, insights and shape new directions
  • Designing strategic objectives meaningfully and in context
  • Assigning resources and capabilities and visually explore constraints and accelerators
  • Creating best practice Key Performance Indicators
  • Assigning Key Performance Indicators, measurements and accountabilities to achieve objectives
  • Managing strategic initiatives against life cycles
  • Tracking and managing performance against expected strategies
  • Promoting collaboration and sharing of best practices
  • Communicating and shaping behaviour of their teams
  • Learning how to structure information, create content and articulate ideas in a manner that it can be data mined for the benefit of the organisation (knowledge management)
  • Learn how to optimise technology for workshops, meetings, performance meetings, initiative management and other applications and stop paper reporting (save costs and also more friendly towards the environment)
  • Practical experience of Management 2.0 and the impact on leadership and management

openaxyz supports a visible culture of accountability to improve productivity and performance; reduce duplication and silos and nurture collaboration that is purposeful and effective. Clients, including executives and consultants, achieved the following benefits:

  • Link strategy planning to execution process (translates strategy into executable work)
  • Link KPI at the right level of activities (granularity)
  • Achieve perfect alignment and granular deployment
  • Structured logical way cascade strategic intent
  • Achieve the right work at the right levels
  • Reduce complexity
  • Provide order, structure and clarity
  • Consolidate, prioritise
  • Execution management through linking actions and performance indicators
  • Consistency and common approach to strategy execution
  • Build execution as competency through training in openaxyz and the 4 step AXYZ thinking
  • Access to the Method content to grow in skills in strategy design and implementation
  • Facilitate a common understanding
  • People participate and engage with strategy process
  • Sharing their knowledge and ideas
  • Visualisation dramatically improves understanding and learning – more than any other methods
  • Improve accountability through facilitated, positive process
  • Create transparency and fairness
  • Understand how personal performance contribute to overall objectives
  • Connect the dots – visually
  • omCmunication and change management support
  •  Fit the right person to the right work at the right time
  • Unique logical drill down views for quick information on execution and initiative
  • Social collaborative created knowledge management/content management
  • Supports on-boarding and succession management Management 2.0 in action
  • Next Practice innovation: simplicity, speed and light to use with robust design underlying the architecture
  • Rapid, agile development based on user design and feedback

Our clients tell us what benefits they gained from openaxyz:

  • “A Visual Integrated scorecard was accommodated on the AXYZ web technology, with alignment of overall services strategy and cascading down into the  organization therefore achieving perfect alignment using the AXYZ cascading technique.
  •  The  logical and structured deployment process enabled transparency, assigns accountability and creates visibility of performance to divisions, teams and individuals with direct drilling down capability into lower levels of work. High performance will be transparent, as well as areas for improvement.
  •  The logical AXYZ viewing process enabled leaders and their management teams to immediately identify and focus attention on critical areas as they can “zoom” in on the core problems very rapidly.
  •  Using the AXYZ toolsets promoted speedy strategy formulation and in particular translating and communicating these towards managers and their teams, whilst still including staff contribution.
  •  Acted as an effective cost cutting and efficiency device due to identification of constraints, duplication of effort and sharing of knowledge and best practices across divisions.
  •  Drove the direction and achievement of the “Road to Excellence” towards One Agenda, One Purpose
  •  Made it easy to track strategic initiatives progress.
  •  Groups features easily accommodated matrix management including matrix performance
  •  Leadership teams consistency view as a strategic leadership toolset to provide direction and communicate strategic intent as well as support strategic conversations with each other in the leadership community.
  •  Managers experienced openaxyz as a business management toolset provided by to organization which “arrived just in time” to enable them to achieve the performance requirements and become ‘strategy execution heroes’.
  •  All users reported that it simplified and consolidated the  variety of toolsets currently used, such as powerpoints, word documents and excel reports.
  •  Assisted in focusing which data to provide into business analytics toolsets, as well as optimise business analytics information into the AXYZ presentation layers to assist in effective decision making.
  •  Supported collaboration on technology strategies therefore reducing reliance on email and duplication of effort.”