8JUNE 2025OPINIONIN MYOrganizational alignment is bringing the organization's overall success vision and how its executives and other stakeholders contribute to achieving those objectives in harmony (Sousa et al., 2014). A clear and aligned business model emphasizes the importance of teamwork and clear communication. Most people in any business are aware of the short- and long-term company strategy, procedures, and goals when there is organizational alignment. Aligning organizational strategy and structure may aid in focusing resources on important goals. This high level of organizational cohesion is achievable with careful planning, open communication, and thoughtful management. Businesses usually use it to achieve results that are urgently needed, but it can also be focused on longer-term corporate objectives. This paper explains the reasons why there needs to be an alignment of the organizational values, purposes, goals, objectives, and strategy, how an understanding of environmental issues, for instance, unchangeable structure, government regulations, and limits of personnel and finance have an impact in making strategy and finally address how making a strategy can perhaps be a unifying process building community, identity and the organizational commitment in the organization.Once management teams, as well as business functions, are successfully tuned to a single frequency, they come together to generate a potent force of motivated, By Michael Dotto, Director, Voya FinancialTHE IMPORTANCE OFORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT: STRATEGY, ENVIRONMENTAL UNDERSTANDING, AND UNIFYING PROCESSES FOR SUCCESSMichael Dotto
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