Hermes Consulting is working since more than 20 years side by side with the Boards of Directors and the Management supporting them during the implementation of their strategies. IRIS stands for Implementazione Rigenerativa delle Strategie (Regenerative Implementation of Strategies) and consists of a strong and generative Management Model. IRIS is all-embracing: it takes into consideration the human resources, the quality of the leadership as well as the relationships between the individuals. IRIS stands for the promotion of a climate of trust and growth inside corporations.

1. I.RI.S.
Strategy for Strategies

2. According to international researches
only 50% of the strategies designed
by the Management of European
companies are realized: in one of two
cases organizations fail to effectuate
their strategies, due to a lack of
information on how to do it in
practice.
Consequences are serious in terms of
frustration and loss of energy, time
and resources.
Strategy and implementation

3. IRIS: an accurate and powerful tool
Hermes Consulting is working since more than
20 years side by side with the Boards of
Directors and the Management supporting
them during the implementation of their
strategies.
IRIS stands for Implementazione Rigenerativa
delle Strategie (Regenerative Implementation of
Strategies) and consists of a strong and
generative Management Model. IRIS is all-
embracing: it takes into consideration the
human resources, the quality of the leadership
as well as the relationships between the
individuals. IRIS stands for the promotion of a
climate of trust and growth inside corporations.

4. IRIS consists in an
educational/methodological system
that considers companies as living
beings and uses this vision to facilitate
the achievement of the desired results.
Results are pursued through
imagination. Having in mind a concrete
picture of the desired outcome
involving both, the rational and the
non-rational part of the brain, is crucial
for a thorough alignment and a mental
approval of the vision.
Corporations: living beings

5. Who is the brain of a company?
The CEO and the Top Management form the brain of the company.
When this group is not able to define the result they want to achieve, the brain
tends metaphorically to send different information to the hands and to the
feet.
This is the area of Top Alignment.
When the result has been imagined and when the brain agrees, how do hands
and feet grab the object, how do they reach the objective?
They need to receive information from the neurological system and to form
the synapses, or neural connections, in order to inform all the limbs about the
direction they are asked to take. All parts need to be connected and all nodes
must be aligned to allow the message to be transmitted.
This is the area of the ConVision and of the Delivery Lab.
The brain and the neural networks

6. Are the arms and legs of the body sufficiently
developed to grab the object? Or is it necessary to
empower the muscles?
Measuring the real distance that, according to its
training level, a body needs to cover to reach an
objective sets empowerment.
This is the area of Transformative Learning and of Self
Empowerment.
Muscles and empowerment

7. The rules for moving together
HAVING AND
SHARING A
COMMON VISION
CREATING A
CONNECTION AND
PASSING INFO
ACTIVATING A
GENERATIVE
DIALOGUE
SUPPORTING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF
COMPETENCIES
HAVING THE RIGHT
MINDSET
HELPS
Creating a shared
reference framework,
defining a common
strategy and deciding
how to communicate to
everybody the result
that has to be achieved.
HELPS
Ensuring the
communication between
individuals and groups
and transmitting
information to the
system by the help of
the connections.
HELPS
Having feedback and
information regarding
the implementation of
the strategy.
HELPS
Creating and reinforcing
the competencies that
are necessary to make
the system work.
HELPS
Creating motivation by
considering oneself as a
resource and not as
limit.
BECAUSE
When people share a
way of doing things, they
will know where to go.
BECAUSE
When people are
connected, they will be
able to communicate; if
people receive the
information they need,
they will understand
what to do and how.
BECAUSE
When people receive
feedback they will know
how to improve their
behavior and the
behavior of the group
and of the organization.
BECAUSE
When people are
competent, they feel
confident with what they
are doing and perform at
their best.
BECAUSE
When people are aware
of their limits, of their
resources and of their
capabilities they will be
able to achieve their
goals.

8. IRIS, a journey and a process
•Analysis of the state of the art and identification of specific needs: definition of the actual gap between the
present situation and the desired condition (where are we now, where do we want to be tomorrow).
Analysis of the
state of art
•Previous to the aligned communication of the new strategy (the so called Vision) and of the guidelines for
its implementation, the Board of Directors meets to share the results of analysis, to reflect on their
meaning and to define actions.
Board
Alignment
•The incentive of a lively communication among the members of the Management and with the Board of
Directors is necessary to create alignment regarding the implementation and the outcome of the decided
Strategy. To ensure coherence at all levels of the organization, the Vision and the Strategic guidelines need to
be clearly defined and transmitted, and integrated in the daily actions.
ConVision
•Thus critical nodes produced by the change should be detected in time and be efficiently corrected
with preventive or repairing actions.
Delivery Lab
•As a result, the organization is able to realize a plan of development that corresponds to the decided and
communicated strategy, supporting both, the organization itself and the individuals.
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