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Capacity Building in Industrial Businesses

According to Paul Connolly’s book Navigating the Organizational Lifecycle, “any group that aims to deliver successfully on its mission must attain the mature stage of the organizational lifecycle – and sustain itself there.” An organization must ‘build capacity” in order to achieve results.  Many people mistakenly think that adding capacity means hiring staff. Actually, organizational development includes a variety of different activities including:

• Product/service development 
• Identifying the next level of management structure and creating a performance monitoring system
• Implementing new financial, HR, fundraising, marketing or IT systems
• Improving employee morale and productivity

According to Connolly, “Capacity is an abstract term that describes a wide range of capabilities, knowledge and resources that organizations need in order to be vital and effective in staying true to their missions.” Organizations must build leadership, management, technical and adaptive capacity in order to continue to grow and thrive. Knowing what to do when and how to work through the transitions as an organization develops is a critical success factor.

At Strategy Solutions, our experience has taught us that two transitions are particularly difficult for most industrial businesses.  (1) Growing from start up into adolescence and then (2) making the transition from adolescence into maturity. The steps to reach these stages are different. The steps taken to be successful in one stage will not work in the next stage. Moreover, they are not likely to get through these transitions easily without some “outside assistance.” Strategy Solutions can provide support to effectively facilitate these transitions.  

Contact us at 866-480-8003 or info@getstrategy.com for more information.