Discover the key reasons why organizations fail to deliver on their strategies, and how organization design can help address these issues. Read on for more insights! Organizations tend to start up with a specific purpose and goals in mind, but not all of them are successful in achieving these objectives. While there may be a…
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Over the years we have seen organisation design exercises that start with pulling out org charts and discussing how the work could be reallocated to the individuals on them, often according to their own preferences or aptitudes. Guess what? That doesn’t work. Org charts are not the place to start when it comes to thinking…
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Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. Ralph Caplan I am definitely guilty of watching too many home improvement programmes. As soon as I see Dermot Bannon’s “Room to Improve” ads appear for the next series, I hit the record button straight away. The format of the show is familiar. Dermot…
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“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter It sounds simple when put like that, but many organisations struggle to achieve strategic clarity. Doing so requires lots of conversations, soul-searching, data and insights, amongst other things. When in boils down to it, most companies’ competitive advantage relates to one of three…
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Businesses around the globe have initiated extreme measures in an effort to safeguard their employees’ welfare and contain the spread of COVID-19. For many this means a mandated move to remote working – typically from the employee’s home. Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook have tens of thousands of staff working from home (and, let’s face…
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When we tell people what we do at Allagi we are sometimes surprised that they respond with “ah yes, change management; good communications, so important”. In fact many people believe that successful change management is the same as good communications, but we see it differently. When you want people to adopt a new process, technology,…
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A recent article in Harvard Business Review really made me think. The authors propose that failure to manage organisational culture has a negative impact on business performance. No kidding, huh? But read on! They actually write about not only managing organisational culture in terms of the norms and values that influence how people behave at…
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