Innercapacity

To reach the stage of business fluidity and resilience, organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension, strengthen organizational capacity and build business competency.

Capacity is the management process to planning, scaling up by using resources and time effectively. Capacity management makes business management more effective, efficient, and under control. It’s important for business leaders to keep processes transparent, enforce accountability at all levels by knowing what you are doing, clear leadership at all levels and enhance governance to improve organizational manageability.

Change capacity: Organizations have limited assets, resources, budget, talent, and time, capacity planning needs to be part of the corporate change initiatives around continuous improvement. The corporate management is able to push the right buttons by setting guidelines, building and scaling change capacity accordingly.

In practice, to make capacity planning effective and practical, it is important to get the bigger picture, make decisions about the ideal workload, be clear on what, who, when, where, and how to achieve business goals based on the available resources, talent, to maximize multifaceted corporate value

Capacity investment: To make capacity planning effective and practical, the management should do the information based forecast, ensure that business investment and application development does not proceed without a "clear business rationale"; work out if it makes financial sense, shorten the business initiative management cycle.

The organizational management across the functional boundaries create liaison and business partnership, figure out what the organization needs, share unique business insight as to what capacity can provide, what capacity is needed for the future development of the corporation. It’s important to retool corporate management to model powerful collaboration, and ensure that the business capacity plans and investment are in line with the corporate direction to achieve well-defined strategic goals and realize the vision of the company.

Capacity for competency development: The capacity can reflect the gap in capability. A set of related capabilities with focus can be developed into core competency. The management should have a big picture of what’s going on so that they can justify the capacity planning properly to improve business competency development effectiveness. Take a deep look at the underlying business functions and processes, take a wider look around at what’s going on inside and outside the organization and how it might affect the organization. Make sure that corporate capability planning is effective to build corporate competency and improve business advantage for the intermediate or long term.

Capacity modeling is one of the activities that are required for a high performing organization. Quality capacity planning program will enable the business to switch to a proactive mode and bring you in control when experiencing high velocity and uncertainty; presenting a willingness to imaginatively explore, an ability to evaluate the imaginative proposals for “appropriateness” and a capacity to translate ideations into some form of unambiguous approach for problem-solving. With effective capacity management, you will move closer to enhance organizational agility, harmony, and efficacy.

Business transformation represents a break with the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. To reach the stage of business fluidity and resilience, organizations have to stretch out in every business dimension, strengthen organizational capacity and build business competency for leading incremental or transformative change smoothly.

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