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The typical approach to improving productivity focuses on assessing variance in quality, time, rate, service, or cost, around which management systems develop incrementally or revolutionarily.<\/p>\nThe typical approach to improving productivity focuses on assessing variance in quality, time, rate, service, or cost, around which management systems develop incrementally or revolutionarily.<\/p>\n
Organizational Health Index<\/a>, on the contrary, focuses on improving performance through improved alignment of organizational systems.\u00a0 For example, by improving competence of key components such as mindset, work design, technical expertise, or relationships; or through improving the interface between work processes, or the interaction between work practices.<\/p>\n Simply put, the capability of an organization to achieve its strategic goals and their alignment defines an organization\u2019s health.\u00a0 The Organizational Health Index (OHI) leverages logical consistency to manage the organizational health. \u00a0OHI entails quantifiable evaluations, diagnostics and recipes for success that allow the leaders to calculate and accomplish the organizational health goals, required to sustain long-term performance.<\/p>\n Organizational health refers to the need to address soft (leadership, direction or culture) and hard factors (accountability, reporting lines, or controls) affecting performance.\u00a0 The organizational health index is an ongoing continuous improvement system applicable across an organization.\u00a0 The OHI measures not only the current health level, but also determines the next steps for an organization. \u00a0There are numerous advantages to the organizations implementing it, including:<\/p>\n The OHI Diagnostic Framework<\/a> provides a roadmap for leaders and managers to improve organizational health.\u00a0 It measures the organization against the 9 most critical health outcomes; these outcomes comprise both hard and soft organizational elements.\u00a0 Careful measurement of these 9 elements has a proven link with improved financial performance and earning above-average EBITDA margins:<\/p>\n There are 37 management practices under these 9 health outcomes, developed to help companies identify the behaviors most critical to their health journey:<\/p>\n Years of research have shown the healthiest companies to align with 1 of the 4 recipes for organizational health. \u00a0These recipes constitute concrete management practices and activities for the organization to implement. \u00a0\u00a0Leaders need to acknowledge and align to the recipe that is appropriate for them.\u00a0 They can use these success recipes to plan and implement a change program that results in sustainable outcomes. \u00a0The 4 recipes for organizational health are:<\/p>\n Interested in learning more about the other recipes for Organizational Health and the OHI Diagnostic Framework<\/a>?\u00a0 You can download an editable PowerPoint on Organizational Health Index<\/strong> here<\/u><\/a> on the Flevy documents marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can download in-depth presentations on this and hundreds of similar business frameworks from the FlevyPro Library<\/a>. 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