Image: From project meeting with client – my colleagues Tore Christiansen and Bjørn Helge Gundersen (from Deloitte) on the right. Last year was an … [Read more...]
Aligning structure with work processes
If you want an efficient organization, you need to align the organizational structure with the work processes. In these posts I discuss how you can collect and analyze data about work processes and use that to inform organization design decisions. I also describe how to improve the interfaces between units once a new structure has been implemented.
Should you use agile principles to organize a firm?
"Agile” was intended as an approach for managing software development teams. But it has become one of the hottest business trends – and it is no … [Read more...]
The hidden matrix in your organization
If you recall my last blog post, I discussed the matrix organization, and argued that it is fairly rare to find a formal matrix structure … [Read more...]
A clearer image: Developing new ways to visualize organizations
Example of social network mapping from client project*. As I discussed in my last post, we need to understand the current organization before we can … [Read more...]
Taking the white space on the organization chart into consideration (video)
A seemingly small change in the formal structure of an organization may greatly simplify – or complicate – the way we work. The problem is that … [Read more...]