Strategic alignment with Empiraa GPS
Every team and every site, working to the same plan.
Empiraa GPS keeps teams, sites and leaders aligned to one strategy. Strategic alignment means everyone knows the organisation’s priorities and how their own work serves them. In GPS, every priority has an owner, every person sees their own goals and actions, and leaders see where the plan is slipping.
- Set up with your plan
- Unlimited users
- 30-day pilot
Why alignment breaks
Most people can’t name the priorities they are meant to deliver.
Research by Sull, Homkes and Sull (Harvard Business Review, 2015) found that only 55% of middle managers surveyed could name even one of their company’s top five priorities.
What gets in the way
A plan few people see
The strategy lives in a slide deck the leadership team saw at the offsite.
Teams pulling different ways
Each team and site sets its own priorities, and nobody can see how they fit together.
Work with no line to a goal
People are busy, but it is hard to tell which work moves the plan.
How it works
One plan, visible from the boardroom to the front line.
Alignment in GPS
The plan on one page, for everyone
Your vision, core values, goals and objectives sit on the Strategy One Pager with live status. Share it with the whole business, or export it to PDF for the office wall.
Each person’s part of the plan
Everyone’s home screen shows their current goals, objectives and actions, and each action links to the objective it moves. People can see how their work serves the plan.
- Goals, objectives and actions on each home screen
- Actions linked to objectives
- Updates from the web or the iPhone app
Clear owners across teams and sites
The Accountability Chart shows who owns what across departments, flags open roles and spots leaders carrying too much. ANI explains why and suggests what to delegate.
Hear from every level
Check-ins show each person’s good news, blockers and topics, with a team pulse score. The Improvement Plan collects ideas from across the business, and the best become part of the plan.
What you get
Built to keep a whole organisation in step.
Alignment features
Engagement and alignment report
Check-in completion, engagement goals and the ideas teams have raised, in one report.
See the report typesTags
Group related objectives across goals, for example by site or team.
Access by role
Set who sees what, and keep sensitive goals private.
Read about securityUnlimited users
Bring in every leader, site and team without seat costs.
Your branding
Your logo, colours and font, so the plan looks like your business.
ANI insights
ANI reads every objective and flags the ones that need attention.
See ANI in GPSRollout
Live in weeks, with our team doing the heavy lifting.
Implementation and training are included in every plan, so your leaders spend their time on the strategy, not the software.
How a rollout runs
Load the plan
Your strategy becomes goals, objectives and actions, each with an owner.
Map teams, sites and owners
We build your Accountability Chart and connect the systems you already run.
Set the rhythm
Check-ins and meetings for your leadership team, and training for your leaders.
First report from GPS
Your next leadership or board report comes straight out of GPS.
Start with one leadership team.
Run a 30-day pilot with one leadership team, using your real plan, before you roll GPS out further. We agree the pilot terms with you in the demo.
Leadership teams running their strategy in Empiraa GPS
Who it’s for
For the leaders who hold the plan together.
By role
Questions
Strategic alignment questions, answered.
What is strategic alignment?
Strategic alignment is the degree to which every team and person understands the organisation’s priorities and works towards them. An aligned organisation has clear owners, shared measures and work that ties back to the plan. Read the full definition.
How does GPS show who owns what?
Every goal has one accountable owner, and every objective and action has an owner. The Accountability Chart shows those owners by department, with open roles and overloaded leaders flagged.
Can each site or team have its own priorities?
Yes. Give each site or team its own objectives and owners under the company goals, and tag them to see a site’s objectives together. Sensitive goals can be kept private to the people who need them.
How do we know whether people are engaged with the plan?
Check-ins show completion and a team pulse score, and the engagement and alignment report brings together check-in completion, engagement goals and the ideas teams have raised. See board reporting.
Does everyone need a paid seat?
No. Every plan includes unlimited users, so you can bring in the whole organisation. See what every plan includes.
Can we try it first?
Yes. We run 30-day pilots with one leadership team, using your real plan. We agree the pilot terms with you in the demo. See how pricing and pilots work.
Question not answered here? Ask ANI and get a straight answer.
See one plan across your whole organisation.
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