5 Strategies for Aligning Process Improvement with Strategic Goals

Hilary Corna
3 min readOct 8, 2024

You’ve reached the final part of our three-part series, “Preparing Your Business for 2025: Mastering Process Improvement for Lasting Impact.” Now that we’ve discussed the common mistakes to avoid and how process improvement can boost team morale, it’s time to look at how these efforts align with your strategic business goals.

In this blog, we’ll explore five effective strategies for ensuring that your process improvements directly contribute to your company’s long-term objectives, helping you achieve sustainable success as you move toward 2025 and beyond.

Aligning your process improvements with your company’s strategic goals ensures purposeful change and long-term sustainability. Without this alignment, you run the risk of wasted resources, inefficiencies, and a lack of direction, and your teams may pursue conflicting or irrelevant improvements.

Here are ways you can ensure your process improvement initiatives are aligned with your strategic goals.

#1 Understand the Current State and Define Your Ideal State

Before solving any problems and implementing any changes, organizations should have a good grasp of their existing processes. The first step in process improvement is to document the…

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Hilary Corna
Hilary Corna

Written by Hilary Corna

CEO | Founder of The Human Way | Bestselling Author | New book #UNprofessional out 9/21 | Host of the UNprofessional podcast | As seen in Forbes, Fortune, WSJ