The organizational fitness navigator: enabling and measuring organizational fitness for rapid change

In today's fast-evolving environment, dynamic capabilities for the management of organizational change are regarded as being crucial for business survival and improved performance. Although dynamic organizational capabilities have been receiving intense scrutiny from researchers and practitioners over the past few years, relatively little attention has been directed toward creating a systemic model of dynamic capabilities and toward the question of how to effectively measure what the authors call organizational fitness capabilities. This article builds on the concepts of organizational fitness and its profiling (OFP), and proposes the organizational fitness navigator (OFN) as a systemic model of dynamic organizational capabilities. Part of the OFP model is a systemic scorecard (SCC) as a measurement tool for organizational fitness – in contrast to the well-known balanced scorecard (BSC) – for managing rapid change and improving business performance in increasingly networked environments.