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Gi 's New Belief System

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GI’s new belief system can be encapsulated in the values that are recommended. The values of Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Excellence, and Service are the set of definitions that are leaders across the business can not only communicate but also reinforce systematically to provide a basis purpose and directions for the GI Business (Simons 1995). These new values set out a guide to the desired culture the GI need and what is expected from all our teams and link very well to the position strategy. However the alignment between GI’s alternate strategy and belief system is potentially undermined by certain actions that are likely to be demonstrated. If the alternate divisional structure is implemented the values of collaboration …show more content…

The resource effectiveness of the existing GI business model has, in the past, been adversely impacted by low value areas taking the focus for the business, such as the claims areas. This misalignment between the previous positioning strategy and resource capabilities are largely as a result of their organisational design. This is evidenced in cultural issues resulting from structural and system misalignments and supports the recommendations for change in these areas of the congruence model.
However to further align the business to the recommended strategy we need to ensure that the human resource (HR) strategy is aligned to the capabilities that support the positioning strategy and ensure suitable management practices and HR management structure are specified to support it. A distinct new culture will be required to be fostered. Figure 13 below, demonstrates the principle shift required in moving the dominant culture from the Hierarchy culture which focuses on Order, rules and regulation, uniformity to a Market culture that focuses production/service delivery with an emphasis competitive advantage and market superiority. A Market culture is most aligned to the capabilities that support the considerations of the sustainable competitive advantage of risk selection and analytics. Figure 13: GI’s desired and current culture.
At the same time the

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