Organisation design

Designing new, future-oriented organisation structures is the third core element of our successful change process. According to our experience, 50% of potential utility results from here.

The necessity and reason for this arise from the first two waves of the Wave Concept specifically from the results of task and process improvement ("form follows function"). Ideally organised workplaces and processes can frequently be realised only in modified structures, in order for them have few interfaces, to be managed autonomously and in a performance-minded manner, hence, for them to function smoothly. Moreover, the results thus generated and the prior learning experiences are indispensable for logically deriving the adequate structure to be established, for substantiating it economically, and for introducing it with the strong support of management and employees in a timely and unobstructed fashion.

Based on our Change Approach we offer our clients a comprehensive conception and methodical procedure for designing or improving organisational structures in all areas. Our main areas of experience are in conception, introduction and assistance of

• group and team work in production, logistics and production-related services,
• cost and profit centre organisations in development, production and logistics,
• team and project organisations in development, distribution, acquisition and logistics,
• service centre and competence centre organisations in all service areas,
• reorganisation and restructuring of existing organisational structures (flat hierarchies),
• integration and separation of organisational units across all areas of the company.

Existing or new organisation structures are introduced in a number of methodically coordinated steps in a goal-, process- and team-oriented manner, actively involving management, employees and work councils. These steps are:

• coordinating project goals and the procedure with management;
• getting to know or establishing business goals and strategic alignment for goal-oriented design of organisation structures;
• inventory of the current situation and organisation analysis to jointly determine areas needing to be addressed and potential for improvement;
• establishing and coordinating goals, conception and methodical procedure in detail;
• conducting workshops with management, employees and work council aimed at joint organisation analysis and design;
• establishing and coordinating an organisational design with management;
• conducting workshops with management, employees and work council to work out the details of the agreed upon organisational design;
• planning and coordinating the rollout concept, information of employees;
• implementation, stabilisation and support of new or modified organisational structures;
• conducting periodic organisation reviews to make sure that goals are attained and new organisational structures maintained.

This procedure, actively involving management, employees and work council, not only allows to attain utmost acceptance of change and willingness to actively cooperate in shaping organisational change. At the same time, the groundwork is laid for time- and resource-efficient implementation and for future-oriented and economically efficient new organisational structures that can expect to meet broad support.