OBJECTIVE

The objective of the organizational leadership assessment process is to provide a tool to assess your businesses in a consistent manner.  There are seven main components to the process.

1.       Overall Business Assessment:  Grow, Defend or Maintain (see definitions below)

2.       Discipline Strategic Importance:  Based on the strategic profile of the business, each discipline must be ranked in order to determine its importance in relation to your Division's assessment.

3.       Incumbent Competency Ranking in Each Discipline:  Rank the current incumbent against the established General Manager competencies.

4.       Development plans for incumbent.

5.       Talent Alignment:  Process used to determine if the incumbent's talents aligns properly with the business strategic profile or consideration for moving to another Division.

6.       Succession Planning:  Process to think about successors and action plans to develop successors.

7.       2009 Specific Action Plans:  If no clear successor within the next two years, identify the specific action plans to address the issue.

BUSINESS DEFINITIONS

Strategic Growth:

Favorable external market growth drivers

·         Strong user value creation/innovation potential (ability to significantly impact users' business goals/objectives through product and service performance enhancements).

·         It's big enough to be worth it.

·         Fit with the business's core differentiating strengths and capabilities.

Strategic Defend:

·         The line of business has a significant existing position making a material earning and cash flow contributions to ITW.

·         Unfavorable external growth drivers.

·         Limited ability to significantly increase share/penetration through differentiated value-added strategies.

Strategic Maintain:

·         Not a fit with core business.

·         Not a fit with business's core strengths and capabilities.

·         Not a fit with business's core customers.

·         Negative external market factors/pressures.

RANKINGS

Rank the incumbent against the competencies.

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

There are several supporting documents that are part of the Organizational Leadership Assessment tool.  They include:  Performance reviews, Competency Assessments, Individual Development Plans and Succession Plans; many of these documents can be found below in the Supporting Document library that can be accessed on the left hand quick launch bar or below.