ten slides in ten minutes - a perspective on organisational design
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S S Ten Slides in Ten Minutes: A Perspective on Organisational Design
Presented by:
Bill Graham APM.APMP
July, 2013
Dominant Exclusive Emerging Pervasive Absent
Symbiotic relationship with clients
Sustainability
Making the competitors irrelevant
Projects Particular Performing Pertinent People Places
The Sustainable Business Imperative
Building mutually beneficial and sustainable long-term client relationships
Source: Sales Synthesis
Multi-National Companies [MNCs] may embrace a new dawn or a long dark night.
Know where you are going
Slide: 2
Leadership
Executive
Management
• Ensure that the Strategic Market Development initiatives
support business aspirations
• Delivery of revenue to the business
• Mitigation of identified risks
• Delivery of profit (value) to the client
Structure
Processes
Growing a Business is not a spectator sport
Source: Sales Synthesis
Organisational Design is a Key Component of a Sustainable Business Centric Framework
Moment of Truth
Slide: 3
• Strategy moulded by present solutions portfolio
• Strategy stagnation • Limited portfolio for growth potential • Indeterminate value propositions
Culture
Resources Process
Org Struct Strategy Learning
• Sales personnel have limited portfolio of offerings
• Largest number of employees working in security
• Low number of resources in areas where customer contact is prime
• Low number of resources in areas where revenue growth could be derived
• Development programmes available but relevance needs assessing
• Potential for building skills base •
• Open, honest, ethical • Predominantly European • Willing to learn • Potential to mentor / coach & grow
• Functional structure sound • Reporting structure confusion • Unclear demarcation of authority • Inadequate resourcing in certain units
• World-class employee handbook • Appearance of sound policies • Low adherence to policies and
resultant interventions
Relevance of Organisational Design - determined through analysis
Slide: 4
Armed with this information gaps may be determined & action plans crafted
Source: Template, courtesy of Melrose Atteridge
Understanding the impact of cultural differences is key to global business success
Model of Culture
Time Focus
Space
Structure
Action
Time Orientation
Power
Communication
Competition
Source: Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2012
Culture : ‘the inherited values, concepts, and ways of living which are shared by people of the same social group’
Activities: One after the other – with detail; Concurrent activities – less detail
Past, present, future: Traditional – short term gains through to long term plans /results
Hierarchy versus Equality: Dictatorial through to involvement
Wealth, performance, ambition versus Job satisfaction
Doing or being
Individualism or collectivism: Individual is self-reliant versus shared values of group
Personal zone: Business rather than personal issues
High context versus low context
Slide: 5
Some major organisational failures can be fairly attributed to some of the C-Levels.
Drowning at C-Level
Some CEO’s have reached the age where the happy hour is a nap
Be careful when fishing at the shallow end of the Gene Pool
'Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons' - Michael Shermer
Fact: C-Level people are intelligent and so, when they believe something, you can be certain they will find a way to convince others that it’s ‘the single version of the truth’. Thus, their decisions in terms of organisational design can be disastrous
Slide: 6
The Organisational Design Paradox – Lowering of Productivity
Source: Sales Synthesis
Number of Resources in a key Business Unit
Productivity
The crest of sensibility
[Optimal Design]
Slide: 7
An over-resourced key Business Unit, impacts across the whole organisation
The trajectory of hopelessness
The Organisational Design Paradox – Over-Resourcing across other Business Units to be able to Service at ‘Optimal Level’
Source: Sales Synthesis
Slide: 8
An over-resourced key Business Unit, impacts across the whole organisation
Over-Resourced Key Business Unit
Optimum Resourcing
Inflated Resourcing to interact with the over-resourcing of the Key
Business Unit
Business Units
Inter Business Unit Interaction
Points to Ponder
Slide: 9
• Most businesses reward those that are supportive of the group’s strategies and punish those who challenge the authority of the leaders by raising doubt/s
• 'The mere fact that a man is noted in his particular field of research, astronomy, physics, or mathematics should not be considered as presumptive evidence of his ability to see correctly things outside his experience.'
- Joseph Rinn
• Business Personality: The shared culture, about a company, about each other, about the value of treating others with respect, about being proud of who you – and your colleagues are - and about loyalty and integrity [Being good when no one is watching]
• ‘If you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.' - unknown • Legacy structures cannot drive new business opportunities.
Q&A
Slide: 10