Posts from the ‘Vertical structure’ Category
In this podcast interview we discuss how the Requisite Organization approach can be applied to address complex role/reporting issues. Paul Tremlett is a consultant with CORE International in Canada.
Before listening to the podcast, it may be helpful to take a look at the brief cases that I wrote last week and that we use as a starting point for the discussion.
Some of the things that we touch on are:
- Requisite Organization (RO) as a broader management system
- The combination of fundamental principles and situational judgment
- The importance of diagnostics in the organization design process
- Why it is necessary to do a full costing of a proposed structural model
- Why there are no “dotted lines” in an organization designed according to RO principles
- Why asking “who should report to whom” may not be the right question if you want to resolve role/reporting issues!
If you want more information about the Requisite Organization approach, take a look at the website of the Global Organization Design Society.
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I am planning to do occasional interviews on this blog with thought leaders in the field, both consultants and academics.
The first person out is Paul Tremlett, a Canadian consultant and member of a community of practitioners called the Global Organization Design Society. This community is devoted to the application and further development of the so-called Requisite Organization (RO) theory proposed by Elliott Jaques.
Jaques was quite insistent that he had found the right way to design the ideal organization. So I decided to challenge Tremlett to participate in a blog interview – and clarify: How can RO help us solve tricky role/reporting issues that we are confronted with in complex organizations?
Instead of discussing generalities I wrote two mini-cases and will ask him during the interview how he would approach the situations described. The cases are based on issues that we have discussed during my previous client engagements (to fit each example into one page I have simplified as much possible while trying to keep the essence).
You can read the cases below.
The interview will be posted here in about one week’s time.
