Our organisational structure service
Building in benefits led realisation
To often organisational structures are built up in response to what 'looks neat', or provides the right number of upper management roles. However such structures embed tacit assumptions of what business is and how it its conducted. If high level aims are at odds with those structures then the organisation has a built in disadvantage in efficiently delivering the aims it sets itself.
Key benefits of the AlphaStep organisational structure service are:
- Focus Greater focus on your aims for the organisation, in the very structure of the organisation.
- Coherence The organisational definition activities help to form coherence across the organisation. Effort is not wasted on efforts at cross purposes in different parts of the organisation.
- Orthogonality Mapping activities undertaken help to ensure the interactions in your organisation are well understood and that each entity adds value and benefit in itself.
- Value Creation With both coherence and orthogonality, focused on your aims, the entire organisation becomes focus on value creation aligned with your aims.
- Efficiency Even small improvements in organisation structure have massive benefits in terms of efficiency, morale and culture within the organisation. More effort is focus externally, rather than at strife internally.
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Engineering
Mapping
Profile
Realisation
Plan
Mapping
Support
Optimisation
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Our Approach
At AlphaStep we focus on:
- Defining the your basic aims and as a consequence what the real desired benefits are. The organisation structure has a set of original values and objectives in addition to those you wish to move towards. We map and understand both sets to understand the distance and extent of the implicit change you are looking for. Large changes usually require larger organisation perturbation and longer durations. From this understanding we form the critical success factors of the organisation.
- Mapping the real processes and connections within your organisation. Which unit has ties with which other unit and how do processes really work, as opposed to the theory. These interaction have to be mapped and understood before new structures can be envisaged since breaking key interactions can cause unexpected failures in performance.
- Engineering potential structures and testing them against the mapped organisation and game theory of how individuals and groups will react. The aim is to recognise why potential approaches will fail before they are tried.
- Optimising on the best structure which both delivers on the aims and maximises flexibility. This structure then drives the need for accommodation, process and management change, together with a tailored communications programme to push forward the new structure. The new structure is simulated and expected interactions are understood to provide a baseline to compare practical measurements against.
- Rolling out the change, complete with real time monitoring and refinement of structure. Unlikely most organisation structure plans we don't expect perfection from the first approach and thus we ensure we maintain sufficient agility to modify precise structure dependent on new factors.
The above quick outline of the AlphaStep organisational structure methodology can provide you with a view of how we can help you keep your organisation aligned to your aims. If you have questions or would like to discuss further, please contact us and we will be happy to help.