Avoid This Pitfall When Cutting Costs
Looking to reduce costs during your organization redesign? Consider changing how the work is done and then align staffing levels to match the work.
Resource Allocation
Differentiation Through Corporate Strategy
Corporate strategy can be a point of differentiation. Look at your business as you would an investment portfolio and determine how to allocate resources in ways that create the greatest returns.
Spans and Layers: A Word of Caution
These three steps can help leaders get the most out of spans and layers adjustments. and make sure a span and layer analysis doesn’t lead to unintended consequences.
Recipe for Success: How 3 Organization Design Principles Helped a Business in Crisis
The last few months have been difficult for all organizations. In this environment, the value of understanding how to align strategy, capabilities and tradeoffs/choices is more important than ever.
Centers of Expertise and Shared Services: More Gray Than Black and White
There is no one-size-fits-all template for shared services models and centers of expertise. To implement successfully, these organizational constructs need to be designed to fit within the context of each organization’s unique structure, needs, and goals.
Resource Management Critical to Maintaining Strategic Alignment
To keep up with the rapidly evolving global markets, it is essential to make smart–but often hard–decisions and trade-offs about where to allocate resources.
4 Principles of Resource Allocation in Large Companies
Considering these principles when making resource allocation decisions will help leaders reduce internal strife and come up with solutions that truly serve the best interests of the organization.
Why Resource Choice Matters in Organization Transformation
Resourcing is a perpetual challenge organizations face in driving transformation. Sooner or later, every transformation leader will find him or herself in the position of needing specific talent or resources other than those which are normally under their control. When this happens, they must look elsewhere for those resources. Not
Strategic Planning is More than Goals and Objectives: It is about Resources and Capabilities
The medical definition of strategy is, roughly, change that contributes to successful evolution. Think about this in terms of your business. Isn’t that the end goal – successful evolution? What’s notable here is that nature evolves through a series of trials and errors, and the organisms that adapt in more successful
Organization Alignment, the Key to Resource Optimization
How do I optimize my resources? It is the perennial question for today’s businesses. Our philosophy is that aligned organizations can better optimize their resources to create both great efficiencies as well as desired growth. To accomplish both of these objectives, businesses must consider a more holistic approach to organization