'Execution key to organisation success'

Core competency should be achieved through the gene pool. Recruit the right people initially and they will in turn be able to recruit the right people and help build up the organisation's structure and culture.The organisation needs to put the extra money where the core competency is.

Bala Balachandran, professor, Kellogg School of Management in his address at the international confluence on 'Enabling Execution Excellence "" Global Agenda' said that every organisation has to check customer defection. The three Es that can help towards achieving this are 'Energise, Execute and Evaluate'. Making plans are fine, but executing them are the key.

HR practises should help increase productivity at the work place. The execution of the practises are what ensures this, said John Adams, director & executive faculty, Saybrook Graduate School, USA. There is need to ignite mindsets if there has to be a change in the working styles of the organisation. The normal practises need to be challenged and changes made in the routine for the growth of an organisation, he added.

The work-life balance is a major aspect of the life of the employees. There has to be a break from routine to increase the 'lifespan' of an employee. To strike a work-life balance, one has to consider what are the most important aspects of ones life, said Adams.

When a company says people are important, it is about the good people that the firms should talk about, not any and every employee. The leader of change has to be vocal, visible, persistent and consistent. This is key to changing an organisation.