16/07/2022
The 7S-model was developed in the 1970s by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr during the work for McKinsey. It's also referred to as the McKinsey 7S Framework. The model divides an organization into 7 elements which are essential for the success of an enterprise. The authors derived it from their research insights on America's best-run companies at the time. Think of companies like HP, IBM, Texas Instruments, Xerox, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Marriott, McDonald's, Boeing and many others. Their work culminated in the book "In Search of Excellence" where I learned about this the first time myself.
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The 7S-model is used to analyse organisations in order to identify and evaluate changes. The success factors can be divided into "hard factors" (the top 3: strategy, structure, systems) and "soft factors" (the bottom 4: skills, staff, style, shard values). It is important to remember that any change to one factor always has effects on the other factors as well. While it is debatable if the model can still be applied today there quite a few of the companies that they identified to be performing strong in these factors have continuously beaten the competition and are still around today, 50 years later.
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