“You can’t grow if you’re drivÂen only by process, or only by the creative spirit. You’ve got to achieve a fragile balÂance between the two sides of the corporate brain.†– Howard Schultz
Based on the philosophy of Enterprise Relativity, the Strategically Enabled Enterprise (SEE) framework breaks down the enterprise into several primary diÂmensions that allow leaders to more easily identify the key relationships and underlying relevancies. Comprised of two lenses or vantage points it provides a balanced view of an enterprise’s workÂspace and workplace. The SEE framework defined as a dichotomy model connects the enterprise’s workÂspace and workplace via an epicenter of transformational change with the ultimate goal of susÂtainable synergy while it maintains structural stability.
While the SEE framework is relatively straight forward, the underlying relevancies and relationships of the frameÂwork is paramount to better understanding the structure of the enterprise. This implies that leaders need to have multiple views of the enterprise.
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Epicenter
Through business rationalization, organizational development, and technology investment create an epicenter of continual, transformational change for sustainable innovation and growth.
2
Lenses
A stereoscopic view of a distinguished workplace and differentiated workspace. By understanding the human needs that drive the workplace we see its influence on the workspace. Equally, we can see the business needs that defines the workspace also drives the workplace. In effect, these two lenses allows us to view the enterprise in terms of its persona and psyche – its rational, functional side and emotional, relational side.
3
Frames of Reference
Equal focus and attention on business rationalization, organizational development, and technology investment is critical. Defined as architectures we can better address the challenges and issues an enterprise faces today within each of these frames of reference. While they are separate, they are also equal and provide a vantage point from which to view, assess, and manage the entirety of the enterprise in a comprehensive, cohesive way.
4
Perspectives
The SEE framework and methodology evolves around Kaplan and Norton’s strategic perspectives of customer interface, internal infrastructure, financial performance, and organizational learning and growth that is synthesized with the Competing Values Framework. To maintain a perspective of the workplace, the four psychological types are used to assess and manage the perception of, response to, and the performance of the stakeholders within the workplace. These perspectives allows us to establish the scope in which to address the issues and challenges leaders face in the enterprise.
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Dimensions
Business strategy, model, and capabilities, organizational culture and workplace climate, stakeholders, organizational networks, and technology details the SEE framework.