Key Element Package
Interdepartmental Planning

Focus resources beyond department silos

What is Interdepartmental Planning?

The Interdepartmental Planning engagement provides a framework for helping companies overcome silo thinking and a process by which initiatives can be prioritized to maximize what the organization achieves. When you complete this engagement, you and your team will have a repeatable process by which the organization can identify important initiatives, prioritize them in a way that advances the organization towards its long-term goals, and achieve buy-in across the company on what needs to be done over the operational planning horizon.

What does the Advisory Services engagement look like?

An Interdepartmental Planning engagement is facilitated by a Certified Organizational ReWilding Adviser and consists of six meetings with the leadership and management teams. Throughout the engagement, video content is used to communicate key principles to participants. The meetings include hands-on activities to take inventory of department initiatives, create cross-functional teams to determine priorities, and develop organization-wide priorities with buy-in from each department.

At the conclusion of the engagement, the organization will have an Operational Plan with support across the Leadership and Management teams on what needs to be done over the next one to two years.

How does Interdepartmental Planning benefit a business?

Companies that complete an Interdepartmental Planning engagement routinely experience these benefits:

• Recognition of and movement away from silo thinking.

• Shared language and principles related internal supplier-customer relationships, enterprise thinking, and initiative prioritization.

• Resource allocation that best allows the organization to win as an enterprise.

• An Operational Plan covering the next one or two years that focuses the organization’s energy.

• A Leadership and Management Team trained in the Interdepartmental Process and tool that creates an annual cadence for allocating resources with quarterly reviews.

Who can help businesses implement Interdepartmental Planning?

Our ReWilders go through a highly structured training process to earn certification. Below are a few of the Advisers who have been certified in the Interdepartmental Planning element. Visit Our Network page to see a complete list of Advisers.

The Interdepartmental Planning Guidebook

Interdepartmental Planning encourages an organization to abandon a silo mentality and embrace enterprise thinking. It is the key to allocating resources to the right initiatives so the entire company benefits. Instead of fighting over limited resources, departments pursue an Operational Plan that lets them win as an enterprise.