Initiatealignmentofpolicy

 Policy needs to be solid to guide human activities with consistency.

Contemporary organizations and societies set good policies to guide decision-making and actions. Effective policy management inspires positive mentality, encourages good behavior, drives better performance.

Policy alignment is fundamental and multidimensional to ensure people participation, process coherence, practice effectiveness to bring up high performance results with consistency.

Alignment of policy, process, practices: The goal of policy is not for its own sake, but to instruct good decision-making or behaviors. In the organizational scope, people, process, structure, culture, etc, are all important components in management discipline. After policies have been made, one of the most difficult challenges of corporate management is to align established policy with important processes, best/next practices to encourage good behaviors, solve the right problems, and lead desired results. The alignment shouldn't mean the rigid business management discipline to stifle change, decrease flexibility; but a flexible management discipline to fine-turn organizational processes, update the best practice, train talented people to understand what policies are about, how to benefit them, and initiate the next practices to enforce policy effectiveness.

Alignment of policy, communication, partnership & collaboration: If you have a plethora of policies, but many of them are not effective, there's a policy misalignment issue that needs to be handled smoothly. Policy alignment goes beyond conformity and order taking, but includes a close partnership with interpersonal communication, value analytics, and governance. Policy can be updated or scale up accordingly. The good policies are not “shelf-ware,” but “shareware,” enhanced by strong communication, seamless collaboration to streamline positive energy flow, set progressive tones to harness collaboration and inspire transformative changes from a long term perspective. Policy alignment is a strategic imperative for solving certain societal problems and accelerating collective performance. The powerful collaboration platform unleashes great potential for business partners to collaborate and solve common challenges, make influence on long-term policy & investment or any other social, political and economic concerns.

Policy following up: Good policies make good things easy to do. People need to do what policies say or have the policies say what they do. If not, then the policy is irrelevant. The more effortlessly you can align, integrate, and optimize policy, process, culture inside an organization, the closer you can accelerate performance, develop the next practices to proactive problem-solving. The worst thing to do is just about putting good policies in place to mandate it, but no one really follows it. People in high performance organizations or societies follow good policies voluntarily for their own benefit, encourage autonomy, make the workplace highly productive, provocative, innovative, to achieve high performance results.

Policy needs to be solid to guide human activities with consistency; people could be flexible enough to catalyze innovation. Like all great things in the world, balance is the key in policy management. It should be effective to encourage fitting attitudes and good behaviors. Good policies lubricate the business value chain and streamline business logic, so people crossing the boundaries will pull in the same direction to drive progressive change, unleashing human potential both individually and collectively.

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