Presentation Tips:  McKinsey 7-S Framework

Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company are known to be the best consulting companies in the world.  Whenever top companies went into financial trouble or need advice to make important decisions, Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company are always their priority choices.  Top companies are willing to pay million dollars for these consulting companies to investigate and analyze their company’s performances.

In this article, I will share with you the well-known McKinsey 7-S Framework that appears very often in McKinsey & Company’s client presentation.  I wish that you can learn and use this framework for your company’s internal presentation to impress your bosses and colleagues.

McKinsey 7-S Framework was first created by Richard Pascale, Anthony Athos, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman in 1978.  McKinsey later adapted this framework to help analyze clients’ operation effectiveness.  This framework became more and more popular as more McKinsey ex-employees start implementing it internally and business schools start including it in their curriculums.

McKinsey 7-S Framework is made up of seven interdependent factors that determine how corporations are operating:

1. Shared Values: Core beliefs and attitudes that drive employee behaviours.
2. Strategy: Long-term company plan.  What is the long-term strategic direction of the company?
3. Structure: Company hierarchy.  The ways business units and departments are linked.
4. System: Formal or informal procedures and processes to get things done in organizations.
5. Staff: Employee is always known to be the key asset of your company.  How motivated, trained and engaged are your employees?
6. Style: Company management and key personnel’s management style.  How problems get solved by organization leaders.
7. Skills: Core competencies and capability of the company.

Please find below a formatted PowerPoint slide of McKinsey 7-S Framework.  Simply download it and plug in your own data.  I am sure this framework could help you appear as one of the best strategic guys in your office.

Source and More Reading:

http://www.buildingbrands.com/didyouknow/14_7s_mckinsey_model.php
http://www.tomspencer.com.au/2008/09/13/mckinsey-7-s-model-analysis-framework/
http://ssi.typepad.com/strategy_solutions_intern/2007/07/understanding-a.html

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