RAEW is an acronym for
responsibility, authority, expertise, and work. Responsibility denotes
ownership, authority involves decision making, expertise involves skill or
knowledge, and work is the task assigned either to a group or an individual.
Analyzing a process using the
RAEW tool can help identify structural misalignments that impede strategy
execution. These misalignments include the following:
·
Authority with no
responsibility
·
Responsibility with no
authority
·
Responsibility with no
expertise
These misalignments can impede
strategy execution by slowing decision-making, disempowering teams when there
is responsibility without authority, or depriving processes of key skills when
there is responsibility without expertise.
Using the module readings,
University online library resources, and the Internet, research the RAEW
analysis technique. Based on your research, respond to the following:
·
Select an important process in
your business unit that is performing poorly and perform a simple RAEW
analysis.
o
What is the process you
analyzed?
o
How is it performing poorly?
o
Can you find any structural
misalignments using the RAEW tool?
o
Describe the misalignment and
the consequences of it.
o
How would you fix this
misalignment?
Write
your initial response in approximately 300 words. Apply APA standards to
citation of sources.
