“I Have My Company Vision, Now What?”
Once you have truly identified your strategy or vision and are ready to build the six sides of your organization around it, you will have the foundation for a winning organizational design.
Organization Design
Beyond Paperless: How Digital Transformation Can Revolutionize Your Organization
Leveraging digital transformation in ways that transform experiences, create exponential improvements, are highly scalable, and expedite progress could result in revolutionary changes for your organization.
Organization Design Is More Than Structure
Examining all the elements of your organization is an excellent way to ensure that your organization design efforts take the entire organization into account and increase the likelihood of success.
Leave Sequestering for Juries: Avoid the “Secret Society” in Organization Design
You can avoid making costly decisions for your organization by getting clarity in advance as to the intended benefit of an organization design decision and how the it will be measured.
Solving Organizational Complexity: Keep it Simple & Strategic
Battling organizational complexity is a challenging endeavor and minimizing it is critical to staying resilient and competitive in today’s market.
Beyond Training: Why Practice Matters In Capability Building
Would you go to a doctor who had never seen a patient? For most of us, the answer would be an emphatic “no” – even if the individual was top of their class. While organization design practitioners are not directly responsible for life and limb, they have a lot in … Read more
Flying In The Face of Data: Why The Logical Choice Isn’t Always The Right Choice
In a world where everyone has virtually unlimited information at their fingertips, we are living in the most data-driven society ever imagined. Whether it be through an online price calculator, or comparing products side-by-side on Amazon, or just looking up facts on Google, people consult data to answer seemingly every … Read more
Two Reasons to Take A Process Approach to Organization Design
In art and art education circles, there is an ongoing debate around the concept of Process vs. Product. The conventional approach focuses on the end product as the ultimate goal. Process art, on the other hand, emphasizes the creative journey—and proponents of this approach claim that it fosters self-confidence and … Read more
3 Keys to Effective Strategic Planning
It’s mid November: the home stretch of the year. In addition to all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, this is when many companies buckle down to do their strategic planning for the year ahead. Effective strategic planning doesn’t happen by accident. As you prepare for your planning sessions … Read more
Choosing Change Agents: It’s Not All About Position
One of the keys to success in an organization transformation is having the right people involved. Before any of the work can be done around planning and implementing change, it’s important to gain clarity on the roles involved and who will fill them. A common assumption in organizations when choosing … Read more