Is Organisational Design holding you back?

In our webinar with digital transformation specialist, Matt McCormack from Cognizant, I asked him: What was your biggest lesson learnt from participating in multiple organisational disruptions? He responded by saying the operating model is important and that no-one has got this right.

“it’s a key indicator of failure, they haven’t envisioned what the future state will look like. Why is that important? Well, because you’re fundamentally going to re-design your labour force. If you start with the technology, you’re going to find you’ve got the wrong people in the wrong roles and you’ll never create those experiences with your customers that you thought about. So, getting that operating model upfront is important.”

You can watch his reply below:

What is organisational design?

Organizational Design is a key pillar of the Enterprise Business Agility (EBA) model, specifically known as Org Structure & Design. It involves placing the right people in the right roles to ensure technology works efficiently, prioritizing the design of the organization over the tools it will use. By understanding the organization’s vision statement, we can determine where roles should be and how people in those roles will utilize them.

It’s like building a race car before knowing which championship you’ll race in. For effective Agile Transformation for Large Enterprises, focus on organizational design first.

If you would like more information, you can read more here.

If you want to watch the full interview with Matt, where he talks about transformation and how to talk to leaders, here’s the video…

https://youtu.be/P6u4Svq3qiY

If you want to learn more about organizational structure and design and how it can benefit your organization, we’d love to chat with you. Contact us to discuss Agile Transformation for Large Enterprises.