Smart Data: Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy

2.4 CAPACITY FOR CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENT

While America watches a new administration address the need for economic improvement, the public and government executives are cognizant that investment and government expenditure is being made on a large scale, such that it may be approaching a boundary of tenability.

How much, how fast, and how far can the government and private enterprise partnership go in making changes and improvements? Knowing well that it takes resource investment to make changes that are intended to produce reward on which to capitalize and otherwise exploit, what are the data and associated metrics as planned and as realized along a dynamic continuum?

There is interplay between government change and industry change that makes the process of change management even more complex to understand and to manage. The capacity for change and improvement for an enterprise is determined and constrained by executive bandwidth that comprises the chief executive officer and the executive team. The capacity for change and improvement is constrained by capital and by the intellectual and professional capacity of the staff. It is affected by the degree to which the organization has been modeled for optimal performance and otherwise being prepared for the subject period of performance or the starting position.

Effective organizations are designed to ensure a level of healthy autonomy that is subject to cyclical leadership inspiration and guidance. Such guidance comes in the form of ...