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nothing  Designing Dynamic Organizations -- Program Overview


Fundamentals Topics in Organization Design Planning for Implementation
8:30 Introduction
- Objectives, agenda

Diagnosing the Issues
- Case work--small group

What is Organization Design?
- The STAR model
- Organization design definition - Designing for flexibility and change

Strategy
- Value propositions
- Implications of customer centric and global strategies on design
Implications of Structure
- Report out and discussion of structural options

Linking the Organization with Lateral Connections
- Review of lateral processes (definitions, examples)

Operating Model
- Example
- Small group work--a each group constructs a different design alternatives for the case emphasizing different design criteria
Organizing Around the Customer
- Anticipating and managing implementation risks

Embedding the Methodology
- Rise of the customer dimension
- Product-centric vs. customer-centric design
- Exercise: How customer-centric is your organization?
- Connecting the front and the back

Centralization
- Centralization strategy
- Potential results
- STAR model for centralization
- Exercise: application to own company
Lunch Lunch Working Lunch
Design Criteria
- Identifying organizational capabilities
- Rules for good design criteria
- Exercise--translating strategy into design criteria
- Application to the case

Organization Assessment
- Conducting a current state assessment
- Root cause analysis using customized case

Implications of Structure
- Small groups prepare presentations on implications of different structures and how they could be used in own company
Operating Model (cont.)
- Report out
- Discussion of evaluating options

Designing Organization Components
- Defining the next level of the organization
- Process for unit level design work
- Designing leadership teams

How to Make a Matrix Work
- Effective matrix organizations
- Group assignment and discussion: application to own company
Mapping Role Interfaces
- Review of tools to clarify roles and responsibilities:
  • Process Mapping
  • Role Interface
  • RAVCI
Implementation Challenges
- Anticipating and managing implementation risks
5:30 End of Day 5:30 End of Day 4:00 End of Program

Pre-work: Designing Dynamic Organizations, Chapters 1-4; Organization Design Competency Self-Assessment; Case Study Part I

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