For strategies to succeed, the people and teams executing them need to be organized to operate effectively.
Organization is Not Responsive or Adaptive to Change
Structures can enable or inhibit flexibility. Your structure must enable you to adapt to the changes in your environment.
Organizational Design Workshop
Structure Follows Strategy
Organizations become hamstrung by the structures & artifacts which once served them well, but are unfit for enabling new strategies, tactics, and ways of working.
Many companies design their structures with no regard for how it shapes their culture, workflows, and the behaviors their people and teams will exhibit. Structure is a critical component which can significantly hinder – or enable – successful execution of strategy.
Whether beginning an entirely new venture or creating a company within a company, the design of the organization matters.
Structure is Poorly Defined
Poorly designed (or understood) structure is equivalent to no structure. Even organic designs are structured, defined, and aligned.
We Get You
Your structure needs to directly enable the successful execution of your strategy, and be responsive and adaptive enough to shift with strategic change. Structure is far more than just reporting lines, yet few organizations see it as anything else.
We have helped companies large and small design and re-imagine their structures. We can help you (re)define yours. From work specialization, departmentalization, spans of control, centralization/decentralization, formalization, chain-of-command (hierarchy), to boundary spanning. Everything matters, but it matters in the context of your strategy.
Most organizational designs are simply hierarchy diagrams showing who works for whom, with some departmentalization. They also typically do not change as the strategy changes.
This. Does. Not. Work.
Align Your structure to deliver your strategy.
Design changes are not as daunting as they seem. After all, if you designed the organization once, you can do it again, and now you have the help of the people around you, in your organization. You can do it. For those who are ready, we are excited to partner with you.
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