This is an overused and tired phrase. You've used it often when you've reorganized. You know there are disconnects. Almost always they lie in competing and legitimate functional & business agendas.

Strategic alignment is not enough. There is a business and innovation pace that is critical. Alignment with proper timing is SYNCHRONIZATION.

It's not as obvious as you might think. You use measurements and metrics to diagnose the health of your organization. You measure your sales, market share and finances. But do you measure innovation? Or the corporate culture that synchronizes that innovation with results? Your MAKE MONEY MODEL is part of your corporate DNA. It is intimately dependent upon your corporate culture and the intrinsic, unmeasured values you have in place. Can these be quantified? Are they predictive of future results? Can they be changed?

Your own financial data, investments, and results, along with an intimate evaluation of your peoples' focus and energy (MAKE MONEY MODEL SURVEY) will provide you with incredible (surprising?)and quantitative insights into the health of your organization and its ability to grow and make money in the future.

Does your corporate culture still have innovative DNA?
Are you aligned? Are you synchronized?