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Organizational transparency will enable effective communication, build trust, harness collaboration, and manage change smoothly.

Businesses are always-on, hyperconnected, and interdependent, there is no shortcut to improve business maturity, transparency is a must. The transparency is to transform the organization into a system approach, not through the command-control hierarchy only. It has to be implemented systematically and communicate democratically.

A prerequisite for transparency is trust: Without trust, without effective human relationship. There are fewer obstacles and pitfalls to navigate and overcome when team members trust one another. If there is a lack of trust, then there would most likely be an over-abundance of control mechanisms. Trust is about the relationship, and control is about micro-management. Trust makes it possible for running a more effective business with transparent processes, seamless collaboration.

Trust and transparency mutually reinforce each other. The effective way to transparency is through communicating, communicating and communicating, promoting openness, trust, collaboration, respect, creativity, people-centricity. Trust for transparent performance is only possible if the cultural grain, dictated formally or informally, by the leaders at the top support an open and trusting work environment.

The intent behind transparency should always be connected to business performance: Transparency in a social context implies openness, communication, and accountability. It is, in fact, a fundamental factor for performance achievement. An organization can have all the recognition, celebrations, but unless the relationship is a trustworthy one, all those activities will be of limited value in enhancing engagement and boosting collective performance.

Transparency is the wind under performance’s wing. The transparent organizational processes and loosely coupled functions can be integrated into a set of business competencies that underpin seamless strategy execution and accelerate business performance. Organizational transparency will enable effective two-way communication, build trust, enforce collaboration, harness changes, and unlock performance.

Engage business executives to inquire and push the transparency button: Nowadays, many organizations are still running in the dark with puzzles about value, cost, risks, constraints. Transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed and which impact they can make. Staff, especially the management should actually love transparency; it makes the business stronger and better at what it does.

Transparency can be a double edged sword if the audience doesn't understand and embrace the intent in the right spirit. Part of this “illiteracy” of management is exactly what drives their own frustrations with dysfunctional systems, ineffective processes, and disengaged employees. Business executives' learning appetite to push the transparency button will keep them apprised of what the business assets, resources, and associated tooling are for the company and what new trends are going to impact the company.

Transparency is the key to reaching a high level of business maturity. The fine-tuned transparency is simple, but does not lack profundity; open, but not lacking in strategy. Organizational transparency will enable effective communication, build trust, harness collaboration, and manage change smoothly.

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