Organization Design & Restructuring

The Issue

The pace of change in today’s business environment requires many organizations to routinely modify the design and structure of their organization to drive innovation, improve speed to market and customer satisfaction and realize desired top and bottom line results.

Organizations often address these needs primarily through modifications to organization structure. Needed improvements go unrealized as a result of failing to understand and modify other key elements of organization design that go beyond structure and frequently hold the key to improved results.

Our Point of View

• Start With the End In Mind – Organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get. To realize the full benefits of design requires you to clearly define what you need to achieve in terms of business outcomes and organization capabilities and culture.
• Form Follows Function – Realizing the full benefit of your design efforts is best achieved by recognizing that form always follows function. Start with making changes in the work that needs to be done to make sure that changes to the organization chart truly support the work.
• Understand How Decisions are Really Made – Often, the real problems with the current design lie in the governance and decision making processes that exist today.  Modifications in governance and decision making often yield the most benefits when it comes to speed, flexibility, and responsiveness.
• Design for Joint Optimization – Design efforts should at a minimum, recognize and wherever possible meet the most critical needs of your multiple stakeholders (employees, shareholders, community, customers).

Our Approach

At Axiom, we take a holistic approach to helping clients design and restructure their organizations for future success:

• We start by clarifying the value drivers of the strategy and the specific improvements and corresponding results needed to realize desired organization performance.
• Using a comprehensive and analytical approach, we carefully assess the current organization and the specific elements of design that may be limiting performance:
  • Work content and process.
  • Performance measurement.
  • Information flow and interactions within and between groups.
  • Governance and decision making.
  • Structure and staffing (levels and capability).
  • Supporting management processes.
• With a comprehensive understanding of what limits current organization performance, we help the client make targeted changes in the current design that have the best return on the investments needed to make the change.
• Finally, we help clients to develop appropriate awareness, understanding, commitment, and capability within the organization to operate under the new design.

Typical Benefits

• Increased productivity and profitability.
• Faster speed to market.
• Higher customer satisfaction.

To learn more, contact us by phone at (312) 523-2123 or by email.