Organizational design is a step-by-step methodology which identifies dysfunctional aspects of work flow, procedures, structures and systems, realigns them to fit current business realities/goals and then develops plans to implement the new changes. The process focuses on improving both the technical and people side of the business.
As based on a new report by Deloitte coined “Global Human Capital Trends”, the Economist suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high in the business arena. Although the concept of teamwork is as old as civilization itself, the growing emphasis seems to be resultant of a whole new approach on conventional…
Right-Sizing your Current State Assessment Clients come to us when they need to redesign their business processes, and one thing is generally true of them all: they believe they need to do an in-depth current state assessment before they put pen to whiteboard to design the future state. They are surprised to learn that not…
Business language is full of jargon. Even worse, much of the jargon means different things to different people. And the place where these problems loom largest is around strategy and how it should be executed. The word strategy itself has many meanings. The phrase strategic plan has even more interpretations. Then there are words like…
Welcome to Episode 6 of the Outliers Inn podcast series: Change That Matters Topic: Change that matters – Mike Staresinic has experience in engineering, the arts – and in fomenting revolution – strictly nonviolent. He spent 25 years overseas supporting civil society and nonviolent resistance. He helps nations, organizations, and leaders adapt to an ever-accelerating pace of change. Bringing it all…
Welcome to Episode 2 of The Outliers Inn – Organizational Change: Past, Present, and Future Topic: Who changes the change? Are we in a radical new era of thinking about organisations, or is it plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose? Are we any better now at managing organisations – and managing change and transformation – than…
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At a recent strategy meeting with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up almost 30 times in just 1.5 hours. As most business leaders believe, a strong organizational culture is crucial to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magical force that can’t be controlled. As such, most executives manage it using pure intuition. By…
