Cultivating Collaborative Success
A sound organizational design helps companies become more agile and better able to respond to the complexities of today’s market.
Organizational design impacts how a company executes its strategy and competes in the market, how it engages its employees, and how it responds to change. Organizations should be designed to answer the following crucial questions:
How can we translate our strategic objectives into the organization’s requirements?
How can we improve productivity with a suitable organizational structure?
How can we sustain growth?
How should we manage organizational complexity to create value and achieve a competitive advantage?
What characteristics do we need to be a high-performing organization?
The purpose of intelligent organizational design is to create a context that fosters or shapes optimal behaviors that will improve the company’s performance.
Designing an organization for success
Don’t wait for a crisis to reorganize your business. Reorganizations that take place before a crisis have a better chance of success. During a crisis, the odds of a successful reorganization are only 50/50. Research shows that almost 80% of businesses have reorganized in recent years, but more than half of those businesses failed to achieve their goals. The critical success factors are:
Synchronize design with strategy
The reorganization should align with the business strategy and the organization's priorities in the simplest way possible.
Clarify roles and responsibilities
A successful reorganization must have as its key focus the clarification of roles and responsibilities, and the assignment of clear goals.
Assign the right leaders to the right positions
In reorganizations, a common mistake is to tailor the redesign around the individual capabilities of a few key executives.
Minimize execution risk
Execution is the most important capability for achieving a disciplined approach to reorganization, so tools that facilitate this process must be available.
Our experts
Héctor Díaz Saénz
Roberto Martínez Elizondo
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