Organization Design auditing takes a tailored and systemic approach, ideally including other evidence from Capability data (workforce, effectiveness). Design principles, business logic and strategy alignment are fundamental lines of inquiry. Key features and insights include: Organization Control and Coordination; Knowledge and Competency for Strategy; Specialization and Functionality; Strategic and Mandate Alignment; Horizon Readiness.

Structure, technology integration and business processes create the operating ‘space’ and blueprint for leadership, activities, cultural character, and behavior. Organizations are more or less structurally compliant. Mature organizations are more capable of working across and through structural rigidity – we will know this from Workforce Capability Profiling and Effectiveness auditing. Others are more structurally dependent and rely on a high degree of business logic in organization design. An OD Capability Index aims to plot existing factor assessments against organization design objectives and/or future state requirements or benchmarking (Gap Analysis).

Organization Design Assessment