How to use this worksheet:

1. This is an individual assignment. Use this worksheet to analyze your organization’s capabilities, as well as identify competency traps, by clearly explaining how each element of the PARC framework is or is not aligned with your company’s strategy. Use the different columns to describe alignment or misalignment.
2. You may want to refer back to your team’s discussion of PARC.
3. Upload this completed worksheet as your assignment submission.

Question 1: PARC Framework

Use the PARC Framework to evaluate your organization. In your evaluation, include an explanation of how each element (P, A, R, and C) is or is not aligned with your company`s strategy. Include enough detail about the context of your company so that the teaching team can properly assess your comprehension of the framework.

PEOPLE In the boxes below, describe how the types of people (skills and competencies, motivation) in your organization are or are not aligned with your company’s strategy.

Aligned

Not Aligned

ARCHITECTURE In the boxes below, describe how the architecture (e.g., formal structure, incentives, job design) of your organization is or is not aligned with your company’s strategy.

Aligned

Not Aligned

ROUTINES In the boxes below, describe how the routines (everyday behaviors) in your organization are or are not aligned with your company’s strategy.

Aligned

Not Aligned

CULTURE In the boxes below, describe how the culture (commonly held values and beliefs) of your organization is or is not aligned with your company’s strategy.

Aligned

Not Aligned

Question 2: Competency Traps

Now that you’ve used PARC to evaluate your organization, identify possible competency traps faced by your company because of this PARC, and how they might be corrected.

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