Align Functional Teams with Strategy

Break the silo: Connect functional work to strategic impact

Transform how your functional teams operate by seamlessly connecting daily tasks to strategic goals. Workpath empowers your teams with real-time insights, efficient prioritization tools, and streamlined alignment processes.

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Challenges

What holds back functional teams from driving strategy

Functional teams often struggle to align their day-to-day work with broader strategic goals.

Challenge 01

Limited visibility into strategic goals

Teams often lack clear insights into how their work drives broader business goals. This absence of strategic context hampers effective prioritization and leads to disengagement and missed opportunities.

Challenge 02

Competing priorities between routine and strategic work

Day-to-day responsibilities often take precedence over strategic projects. This imbalance makes it challenging to focus on long-term goals, causing delays and inefficient resource allocation.

Challenge 03

Reduced innovation and adaptiveness

When teams are disconnected from market trends and strategic business units, they struggle to innovate and adapt quickly. This disconnect limits their ability to respond effectively to changing conditions and reduces the organization’s competitive edge.

“As a corporate function, we often struggled to show how our work contributed to the company’s strategic goals. Balancing daily operational tasks with cross-functional collaboration on strategic priorities was a constant challenge, leaving us feeling disconnected from the bigger picture.”

CFO Office
Global Chemicals Corporation
Transformation

From task execution to strategic excellence

Shift from isolated efforts and misaligned priorities to streamlined collaboration and clear accountability, empowering your teams to drive measurable strategic impact.

From

Limited insight into how functional work can contribute to strategic and business outcomes in a measurable way

To

Transparency on overarching strategic priorities for all functions and simple tools to offer and request contributions

From

Functional duties and day-to-day work responsibilities win over temporary strategic projects, delaying contributions

To

Integration of strategic priorities into tools of routine work ensure balanced prioritization and simple connect of activities to strategy

From

Limited efficiency gains in core functions as there is no structured pursuit to move beyond routine tasks into strategy work

To

Clear efficiency goals for functions, ongoing differentiation of change vs. run activities, and transparent prioritization of capacities

From

Delays in business units and frustration with functional teams due to lack of mutual alignment and integrated work

To

Early alignment of dependencies and transparent planning of cross-functional work on projects for internal customers

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Functional teams fall behind on innovation and adaptiveness due to dis-connect from market and business teams

To

Core functions are permanently involved in strategic business workstreams and have transparency on plans and market demands

Solution

Workpath: The link between your teams and strategic priorities

Workpath equips your teams with the visibility and tools needed to ensure every task contributes to strategic goals. Our solutions streamline prioritization, optimize resource use, and enhance collaboration, making daily work meaningful and aligned.

PRIORITIES

Bridge the gap between strategic priorities and operational work

Balancing strategic initiatives with day-to-day responsibilities is a common challenge for functional teams. Workpath ensures alignment by offering clear visibility into how resources are allocated across strategic and operational goals. This enables teams to plan effectively, prioritize with confidence, and ensure that no effort is wasted.

Collaboration

Uncover dependencies and simplify cross-team work

Cross-functional collaboration often breaks down due to unclear dependencies between goals and teams. Workpath’s tools visualize these connections, helping organizations uncover and manage dependencies early. This transparency streamlines teamwork, reduces bottlenecks, and ensures progress stays on track.

Integrated focus

Keep strategy at the center of everyday work

Strategic priorities often get overshadowed by operational tasks. Workpath integrates strategic goals directly into tools like MS Teams and Jira, making it easier for teams to track progress, resolve blockers, and stay focused. The result is a seamless blend of strategic alignment and operational execution that drives measurable outcomes.

“Previously, employees would only focus on their immediate C-level goals and nothing beyond that. Now, it’s incredible to see the growth and maturity in how cross-functional goal-drafting has evolved. Teams are brainstorming collaboratively, incorporating the customer, future state, and broader impact into their goals. It makes me proud to have chosen Workpath and to see the difference your software has made.”

Max Elsner
Managing Director at Mehrwerk
IMPACT

Workpath's customers have seen significant improvements in the performance and efficiency of their product organizations*

3-5%

Increase in operating margins

2%

decrease in total budget deviation

32%

of work in functional teams on average that can be attributed to strategic initiatives ans measures business impact

*Average Workpath customer with 150-200 teams in the onboarded departments, impact seen after 1 year (values can be higher, depending on company size and maturity)

Expert advice

Unlock the full potential of your (cross-)functional teams

Learn how to align daily work with strategic priorities and foster impactful cross-functional collaboration. Our experts are here to guide you on balancing operational and strategic efforts to drive measurable outcomes.