Org Design Drives Performance
Leaders set business objectives and define strategies to achieve them, yet often lack the tools to sustainably drive organizational performance. The good news is that this can be learned and thoughtfully applied today at organizations. Org Topologies (OT) will help you get the desired change going.
How do you define and successfully lead the change that’s right for your organization? Here’s a key point: Different goals—rapid delivery, global adaptability, resource optimization, or amplified innovation—require different and tailored org designs. As a leader, you can define that goal and use the approach offered here to evolve your organization in the chosen direction. What scope? Org Topologies works at the level of the entire organization or parts (divisions, groups, teams).
You may wonder: Why another approach? And you would be right, as the market is full of canned change ‘solutions.’ OT offers a custom path by inviting you and your people to create your change, not consuming common yet often mediocre ideas.
Why does change fail so often? First, existing solutions may seem suitable when analyzed superficially but, in fact, don’t fit your unique context. Second—an underappreciated factor behind failed change—people, when not owning the change ideas, won’t fully accept them and won’t go the extra mile to make them work. As a result, the promised benefits of change often remain unfulfilled despite all the wasted resources and opportunities.
OT helps to overcome those significant change risks by making it possible for people to visualize, discuss, understand, and finally shape the change that’s fit for their purpose.
Strategic Org Design
Org Topologies, being a strategic org design system, helps you align all the moving pieces so that your (1) business strategy, (2) organizational goals, and (3) change process work together cohesively to drive the desired organizational performance.
The OT toolset equips leaders to:
Visualize and map the current organization at the level of divisions, groups, teams, and individuals.
Evaluate and highlight areas where the org structure supports or hinders performance.
Address the critical questions: What is strategically important now versus long-term? What requires immediate focus, and what can wait?
Create a shared vision of organizational change and define incremental low-risk steps towards the chosen direction.
Drive systemic, transparent, and lasting change while maintaining operational momentum and flexibility.
Identify where AI will best support an org goal and business objective.
Leaders, powered by Org Topologies, can provide a lasting competitive advantage to their organizations by paving a systematic, well-designed path to sustainable change.
Benefits of Org Topologies
In general, OT helps organizations to get change going by offering them a systemic change management method that allows to:
Discover options to improve the performance of product development and service organizations.
Learn to apply long-term optimizations over short-term quick fixes.
Define the North Star for organizational development, ensure that it stays fit for purpose.
Have the tools to assess, monitor, and progress toward a target state.
Establish a shared language to communicate organizational development and engage everybody in the change.
Prevent costly reorganizations, through design experiments and continuous improvements.
Own the change and provide clarity on the target org design and the reasons for change.
Make org design one of the critical managerial tools to gain a competitive advantage.
Download the Primer for more details on how Org Topologies help drive strategic org design.
