Explore the 7 elements briefly and learn how it can be used effectively to your organisation.

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McKinsey 7S FRAMEWORK
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26th August 2022

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McKinsey 7S Framework - Overview
The Model was developed in the late 1970’s by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, former consultants at McKinsey and Company. It identifies 7 elements of
an organization that need to align for it to be successful.
Strategy
Structure
Skills
Systems
Style
Staff
Shared
Values
Long term plan for building and maintaining
a competitive advantage over its
competitors
Corporate hierarchy and critical business
units
The daily activities and procedures in place
to achieve business outcomes
Leadership and Management style adopted
General capabilities of the staff
Competencies and technical capabilities of
the staff
Shared Values: Core values of the company that reflects general work ethics
The placement of shared values in the center emphasizes that these are central to the development of all the other critical elements.
Soft Elements: Harder to describe and more influenced by company culture
Hard Elements: Easy to identify and can be influenced by management

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When To Use It ?
The McKinsey 7S model is a powerful tool to determine the synergy of all elements.
To examine likely effects of
future changes in
organization
To align departments and
processes during a merger or
acquisition
To assess wellbeing and success of the
company
Strategy
Structure
Skills
Systems
Style
Staff
Shared
Values
To identify the gap between how you are
currently doing and where you want to be in
the future

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How To Use It?
To apply the McKinsey 7S Model in your organization, following steps are suggestive:
Step 2
Hard Elements – your strategy, structure and systems. How well does each one support the others?
Step 3
Soft Elements – skills, style, and staff. Do they support the desired hard elements? Do they support one another? If not,
what needs to change?
Step 1
Begin with Shared Values: are they consistent with your hard elements? If not, what needs to change?
As you move ahead to adjust and align the elements, you'll need to use an sequential (and often time-consuming)
process of making adjustments, and then re-analyzing it’s effects on each of the elements.

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Some Helpful Questions – Hard Elements
It is perhaps easy to understand the model but challenging to apply it for your organization due to a common misunderstanding of well-aligned
elements. The following questions are a starting point for exploring your situation in terms of the 7-S framework:
q What is our strategy?
q How do we intend to
achieve our objectives?
q How do we deal with
competitive pressure?
q How are changes in
customer demands dealt
with?
q How is strategy adjusted for
environmental issues?
Strategy
Structure
q How is the company/team
divided?
q What is the hierarchy?
q How do the various
departments coordinate
activities?
q How do the team
members organize and
align themselves?
q Is decision-making
centralized or
decentralized? Is this as it
should be, given what
we're doing?
q Where are the lines of
communication? Explicit
or implicit?
Systems
q What are the main systems
that run the organization?
Consider financial and HR
systems, as well as
communications and
document storage.
q Where are the controls and
how are they monitored and
evaluated?
q What internal rules and
processes does the team
use to keep on track?
Continued…

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Some Helpful Questions – Soft Elements
q What are the strongest
skills represented within the
company/team?
q Are there any skills gaps?
q What is the company/team
known for doing well?
q Do the current
employees/team members
have the ability to do the
job?
q How are skills monitored
and assessed?
Skills
Staff
q What positions or
specializations are
represented within the
team?
q What positions need to be
filled?
q Are there gaps in required
competencies?
Style
q How participative is the
management/leadership
style?
q How effective is that
leadership?
q Do employees/team
members tend to be
competitive or cooperative?
q Are there real teams
functioning within the
organization or are they just
nominal groups?
q What are your organization's core values?
q What is its corporate/team culture like?
q How strong are the values?
q What are the fundamental values that the company/team was built on?
Shared Values

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Some Of The Advantages Of The Mckinsey 7s Framework
ü Considers 7 elements of strategic fit, which is more effective than the conventional model that only focuses on strategy
and structure.
ü It helps align the processes, systems, people, and values of an organization.
ü Since it analyzes each element and the relationship between them in detail, it ensures that you miss no gaps caused by
changed strategies.
ü It helps organizations identify how they should align the different key parts of the organization to achieve their goals.
The McKinsey 7S model is a proven framework for helping organizations understand how to get from their current situation to
the situation they prefer to be in.

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