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  • August 2008 (Revised June 2013)
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Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework

By: Allen S. Grossman and Stacey Childress
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  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:16 
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Abstract

This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused on attaining high performance, bring those elements into a coherent relationship with the strategy and each other, and help guide the actions of people throughout an organization in the pursuit of high levels of individual and organizational achievement. This note proposes that to attain high performance, a nonprofit organization must have all of its organizational elements—culture, structure, systems, resources, stakeholders, and the operating environment—working together to drive strategy.

Keywords

Management Practices And Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy

Citation

Grossman, Allen S., and Stacey Childress. "Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-035, August 2008. (Revised June 2013.)
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