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.
Developing Leaders in Times of Change & Transformation
“They just don’t get it! They have training manuals, real-time data, managers, directors, and a CRM. Why can’t all of them just exercise common sense?” Leadership during times of significant challenges or change demands skills and abilities of leaders above and beyond the typical. Some leaders naturally seem to rise to the challenge, while others struggle to lead effectively during
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 common with physicians. They, too, are dealing with highly complex
Preparing for Contingencies in Change Management
There are many interesting parallels between leadership in the military and corporate America. While not everything that works for the military is suited to corporate change management, there are certain military ideas and practices that, when adapted to corporate use, can strengthen and enhance a company’s strategic planning and execution. One military practice that is very well suited to this
Business Model Innovation for Relevance and Differentiation
Business model innovation is an essential element of success for today’s organizations. To stay competitive in a rapidly changing market, organizations must continually reinvent themselves. At its core, good business model redesign is about finding a novel way to solve a customer need that hasn’t yet been met fully or in a differentiated way. There are many examples over the
5 Best Practices for an Organization Change COE
To stay competitive, organizations today must be agile and adapt quickly to rapidly changing markets, technology, and economic conditions. Effective change management is therefore essential. Change management initiatives can be handled in various ways within an organization. Outsourcing is certainly an option, but another tactic that many organizations have used with varying degrees of success is to set up an
Implied Work in Organization Transformation
If you are familiar with the Cube model of organization design, you know that Work Processes is one of six elements of an organization that must all align with strategy if the organization is to attain its strategic goals successfully (the others being Structure and Governance, Information and Metrics, People and Rewards, Continuous Improvement, and Leadership and Culture.) Like the
Take Time for a 24-Hour Holiday Re-Boot
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.” —Oprah Winfrey In business, we are always in the pursuit of improvement: having more, being better, going faster, doing things cheaper, and so on. As a result, when you take the time sit back and look at business life you can see an underlying theme: the constant pressure that