Increase your alignment with strategic goals

Those who take part in shaping goals will achieve them. Involve your teams early – not just during implementation.

Strategic alignment rarely fails due to poorly defined goals but rather because people cannot identify with them. Those who participate in the creation of goals develop greater alignment – and are more likely to achieve them. However, traditional strategy processes operate top-down: management formulates, teams implement, and ideally alignment follows afterwards. Rhizome turns this around: employees get involved in shaping strategic goals early, bring in their perspectives, and develop genuine commitment – before resources are invested.

This is how it works with Rhizome:

• Early involvement instead of subsequent buy-in: Share strategic topics early with relevant teams. Those affected by goals can help shape them – not just during implementation, but in their creation.

• Structured integration of perspectives: Easily collect feedback on options and alternatives in a collaborative live-editor – asynchronously and in real-time. Different perspectives provide a fuller picture.

• Iterative development instead of fixed mandates: Work together to further develop options. Formulate initial measures and responsibilities based on the insights. Strategies are conceived in dialogue, not an ivory tower.

• Binding decisions, shared commitment: Make decisions using agile decision-making methods (consent, consensus, ranking, point distribution). Communicate the decision with one click to all relevant stakeholders.

Why this is important:

Successful strategies do not originate in echo chambers or silos. And alignment does not come from communicating already finalized goals but from involvement in their creation. Those who could contribute understand the context, identify with the outcome, and implement with higher motivation. Studies show: Early involvement leads to higher goal achievement – because external requirements turn into personal commitment.

Rhizome makes it possible to systematically include relevant perspectives, even with 50 or 100 employees – without strategy processes taking months. Teams bring in their expertise, management integrates it systematically, and in the end, there are goals that everyone supports - not because they have been persuaded to, but because they were involved in shaping them.