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The best organizational design can be nothing but a plan of intended initiatives. In the delivery process, the design needs to be put into action. To do this, employees' behaviors must be aligned with stakeholder needs. If the design spells out the required  behaviors the change will occur rapidly, and results will be achieved faster.

Elements of the Organizational Effectiveness Cycle

Customer and Other Stakeholder Needs:

Needs the organization must fulfill to survive.

Mission, Vision, and Values:

Aspirations of the organization.

Strategy:

Detailed plan of how the organization will fulfill its mission, vision, and values.

Processes:

What moves the mission, vision, values, and strategy of the organization forward?

Culture:

Work habits, norms, and values and how the vast majority of the employees operate.

Results:

What is actually produced by the organization?

People:

The programmers of the model. (Often, the people's paradigms, not the formal mission and strategy, set the direction for daily activities.)

Principles:

Natural laws that govern the success or failure of all organizational endeavors.