McKinsey August 2, 2024
Driving higher organizational health and performance means focusing on new practices: empowering employees to make decisions, using technology to create value, and updating leadership styles.
Organizational health is a moving target. Leaders at today’s healthiest organizations don’t run them the same way that the C-suite did in 2003, when McKinsey launched the Organizational Health Index (OHI).
We created the index to help organizations gain vital insights into whether they have the right practices in place to drive sustained performance. In the two decades since then, OHI research has consistently shown that the best predictor of long-term performance is organizational health: how well organizations align around a common vision, execute their strategy, and renew themselves over time.
Indeed, organizations scoring in...