ALF Services
ALF Management Consulting Services
There are two ALF services areas introduced below. The first service area introduces the ALF Criteria for Enterprise High Performance & Transformation and includes a summary of our newest Learnership innovations: The ALF Streamlined Improvement Methodology and the ALF Management Excellence Criteria.
The second service area provides information on our wide range of ALF Organizational Improvement Methodologies that are available in a training/coaching format for those organizations seeking to learn more about a particular capability.
ALF Criteria for Enterprise High Performance Management & Transformation
- Leadership Roles and Influence
- Organization Structure and Design
- Strategic Analysis and Planning
- Culture Change and Leadership
- Workforce Training and Development
- Process and Information Management
- Information Technology Planning and Management
- Decision Making and Problem Solving
- Performance Measurement and Management
- Customer Relations and Satisfaction
- Organization and Community Relations
- Organizational Learning & Knowledge Management
The American Learnership Forum advocates rapid lifelong learning, knowing, and leading as the antidote for the malaise so often reflected in the American industry and workforce. A free and open society rests on the bedrock of responsible behavior and disciplined teamwork.
Organizational high performance does not only exist in textbooks, it is an achievable vision in all American industries and firms – global and local, large and small, old and new. ALF Management Consulting Services are available to all public, private, and non-profit organizations that desire a quantum leap in performance in order to outdistance competitors in their respective fields. The pace of life and business in our new "hot, flat, and crowded" world (Tom Friedman) should not diminish our commitment to raising the American standard in terms of the quality and performance of our products and services.
The totally new and tested ALF Criteria for Enterprise High Performance and Transformation address all aspects of organizational leadership and change management in a parallel rather than sequential manner thereby reducing long-winded planning – and stimulating action and results. Why wait years for minimal evidence of growth and progress when benefits can be derived in a few months? Remember, the "fast will eat the slow" (anonymous) as the field of competition becomes more level.
A snapshot of the ALF Streamlined Improvement Methodology and ALF Management Excellence Criteria of our comprehensive and integrated solution follow:
ALF Management Excellence Criteria
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Management Excellence Criteria (12)
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Snapshot
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1. Leadership Roles and
Influence
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Establish organizational vision, goals, and direction. Communicate, communicate, and communicate!
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2. Organization Structure and
Design
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Build lean organizational structures with minimal levels of authority and responsibility.
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3. Strategic Analysis and
Planning
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Scan the internal and external organization environment for opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses.
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4. Culture Change and
Leadership
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Recognize group assumptions and behaviors that either retard or enhance teamwork and performance.
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5. Workforce Training and
Development
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Strive for personal and organizational human capital development, teamwork, and healthy relationships.
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6. Process and Information
Management
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Continuous review, analysis, and improvement of work procedures and outcomes.
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7. Information Technology
Planning and Management
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Identify, select, train, and use contemporary IT and tools for greater efficiency and cost savings.
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8. Decision making and Problem
Solving
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Identify, discuss, and take action to maintain progress and resolve roadblocks.
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9. Performance Measurement
and Management
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Know what to measure, measure it, take corrective or supportive action.
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10. Customer Relations and
Satisfaction
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Know customer (and stakeholder) needs and desires. Create productive relationships.
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11. Organization and
Community Relations
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Become a valued member of local, state, national, and global communities.
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12. Organizational Learning &
Knowledge Management
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Learning is a lifelong responsibility and opportunity for achieving fulfillment, high performance, and the common good.
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ALF Organizational Improvement Methodologies
The second services area in this section concerns ALF Organizational Improvement Methodologies. Assistance in understanding and applying these methods may be arranged by contacting ALF at information@alforum.org.
ALF Organizational Improvement Methodologies
• Enterprise Transformation and Performance
• Applied Systems Engineering
• Enterprise Architecture Business Reference Modeling
• Business Process and Quality Management
• Knowledge Management Implementation
• Building a Learning Organization
• Managing Organizational Continuity
• Human Capital Development
• Organizational Change Management
• Integrated Project Management
• Management Simulation Administration
• DOD Weapon Systems Acquisition Management