What Is The Six Disciplines Methodology?
The Six Disciplines total performance excellence program includes a practical, holistic methodology, based on proven best practices. You can think of the Six Disciplines Methodology as six fundamental business disciplines, involving strategy, planning, organizing, executing, innovating, and organizational learning.
Each discipline involves a systematic and repeatable series of steps.
Methodologies on their own, however, can't deliver a full solution to to fulfill an organization''s corporate performance management (CPM) needs. Many pure-methodology implementations fail to deliver the anticipated benefits - due to lack of integration with fundamental CPM processes, software, and performance coaching.
Below is a brief snapshot of each of the disciplines:
During this annual process, we show your organization how to "step back" from everyday activities and gain insight on what affects business performance. If you're new to Six Disciplines, here's where we help you decide how to go about adopting Six Disciplines, and how to manage the process. Other steps include survey and analysis of key stakeholder satisfaction, and a corporate SWOT analysis. During this process, we also introduce performance appraisals, 360 feedback surveys, and leadership development plans.
We show you how to review and renew your mission, values, vision, market segments, competitive position, strategic position, vision, and agree what to stop doing.
We show you how to produce goals that are clear and measurable, review near-term growth options, finalize strategic difference and operating goals, set targets, initiatives, and outcomes.
We show you how to complete departmental SWOTs, update departmental and initiative goals, balance workloads, finalize plans, and review measure integration.
In this discipline, the strategy and planning is lived out by every person, every day in your company. We show you how to develop your own self-leadership model, realign yourself and your teams weekly, triage activity in real-time, learn and adapt from each quarter's experience, and modify goals along the way.
In this discipline, we show you how to develop an innovation mindset that permeates the culture of excellent organizations. We show you how to use a breakthrough exercise for brainstorming (it's 4 times more effective than alternatives), how to conduct quick ROI analyses, and how to do 5-step problem solving.