The Seven Ss

The Seven Ss is a framework developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s for analysing organisations and looking at the various elements that make them successful (or not). The framework has seven aspects, each of them beginning with the letter S, hence the mnemonic:
1. Strategy: the route that the organisation has chosen for its future growth.
2. Structure: the way in which the organisation is put together; how its different bits relate to each other.