”Close The Gap” - Blog
Aligning the ‘Division of Labour’ with your Organisation’s Purpose, Strategy, and Financial Goals (Part III)
Welcome to the third and final instalment of our mini-series on organisation design. We believe that aligning your organisation's design with the culture and markets it operates in can significantly reduce the need for costly redesigns and organisational reshuffling.
Today, we will delve deeply into the overarching theme of "division of labour," a concept many companies consider strangely as a given. By clearly defining roles and responsibilities, we believe an organisation can mitigate friction between functions, positions, and hierarchical levels, allocating resources to work collaboratively for the firm's customers and products.
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Aligning Functional Organisational Design to Company Culture & Markets (Part II)
What is the correct procurement setup? Central, de-central, or hybrid? If you had asked this question before 2015, many of my peers and I would have provided a very different answer then vs now. Life moved on, and today’s world requires more sophisticated, agile functional designs.
This is the second instalment of the mini-series about organisation design. We believe that if you design your organisation in line with the culture and the surrounding markets, the costly need for re-designing and organisational reshuffling can be minimised.
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Aligning Corporate Organisational Design to Company Culture & Markets (Part I)
How long ago was your last re-organization? Did you move to matrix, global, glocal, central, de-central, or regional? And how about the re-organization before? Was it complementary to what you are doing now, or the other way around? When sitting in business divisions or regions, how do you assess the work done by the folks in headquarters? And if you are sitting in headquarters, are the regions and divisions doing a good job, in your opinion?
In part 1 of our mini-series on organizational design, we hone in on the Corporate Headquarters, and how to do it right - once.
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