Organization Design
Developing Insight to Make Organizational Design Fit for Purpose

Definition and Analysis of Systems Status and Context

Organization design for creating effective organizational structure and systems starts with insightful analysis and diagnosis of the operational and strategic situation of the organization. The insight comes from defining, analysing and addressing such key issues as the following.

  1. What the operational, strategic and competitive situation of the organization or business is—why the organization design program is significant and what key issues are at play.
  2. What organization design principles would inform and guide the organizational design or redesign process.
  3. What critical aspects of the organizational systems to focus upon.
  4. What organizational design process technology and techniques would be used to facilitate the organization design design process.
  5. How to create effective functional interdependencies and synergy of organizational systems and subsystems with the organizational design framework and process.
  6. Which people's actualizating attributes are of strategic significance—and how they would be facilitated in the organizatinal design process.
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Fostering Effective Synergy of Organizational Structure and Systems

Organizational Design Process Technology

Your business would benefit from using an organizational design or re-design process technology which enables the organization to be streamlined or re-designed for high performance.

This would be done through optimally fostering effective synergy of people's actualizing attributes with key organizational systems and processes. The high-performance organizational design process technology, which we called TOP Tech™, is such a process technology for high-performance organizational design. Using the high-performance organizational design process technology—integrated with organization workshops and workouts themed for organization design and change—begins with a thorough review of the operational and strategic challenges and needs of your business or organization. This would provide vivid understanding of the kind and degree of analysis to be conducted on the various structures, systems, subsystems and processes. Such analysis would provide you useful insight on their functional interdependencies and interrelationships. Follow-through activities, workouts and roundtables should focus on having the organizational structure, systems and processes analysed, interrogated, redesigned and integrated synergistically to make them fit for purpose.

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Facilitating Commitment of Key People to Organizational Design and Change

Role of Themed Organization Workshops

It is important to use the high-performance organization design process technology as a technique to facilitate themed organization workshops. Themed organization workshops and stakeholders' roundtables should be used for focused consultation, collaboration, and action planning—particularly with those who would be impacted by the organization design and change. This process would include using the workshops and roundtables to develop appropriate options and solutions on the organizational redesign states to effectively and efficiently address the operational and competitive situation of the business—being cognizant of key countervailing and facilitating factors.

The consultative approach and roundtable would also mean that upon an agreement on the redesigned or streamlined organization, imaginative and people-friendly approaches should be planned for implementing the agreed redesigned states. Doing this would foster the commitment of key people to the desired outcomes.


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Optimizing People's Actualizing Attributes

Dealing With Human Factors of Organizational Design

To sustain desired results, the organizational design or re-design should adequately address human factors and significantly facilitate harmonious functional interdependencies of organizational systems and subsystems. Key aspects of the organizational culture, changes in roles and role relationships, human actualizing attributes and motivations, integrity and psychological fidelity of the organization design process, and intrinsic success factors underlying organizational health, effectiveness and performance should be considered and incorporated in the organization design framework. Such elements should be situated, addressed, and agreed upon within the context of the operational and strategic challenges and aspirations of the business. In this way, the organizational design process would focus on keeping people's key attributes and organizational systems in an optimized condition—and well-aligned to desired organizational culture and performance.

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