Organisation change path
Benefits
- Entering a new era
- Preventing reorganisation pitfalls
- Reasonable assurance on cost of the change
- Constant focus on goals
Summary
A reorganisation is a difficult path with unknown twists. Budgets need to be controlled, even in such difficult projects. The solution is to follow a safe path. The organisation change path leads you around the typical pitfalls. With knowledge from successful change paths, your organisation will be taken along the correct set of steps leading to the intended goals.
Explanation
Over the past decades, reorganisations have often led to disillusionment, mostly because they got stuck after drafting a new organisation chart, putting people in new positions, and making new agreements among eachother. This is only part of a reorganisation. What is omitted is setting new KPI values so that we can tweak the processes towards delivering the new desired results.
Compare this to enterprise architecture; there are many more layers of an organisation that all need to be adapted for the new direction. A change path requires the architectural design (the 'as is' situation) so that the people involved in the change can create a new design (the 'to be' situation) and define what needs to be done to implement the difference between the two (the 'delta').
Method
The change path always follows the following steps;
- Introduction
- Defining 'as is'
- Defining 'to be'
- Defining 'delta'
- Executing delta
The 'as is' situation is a structured view on what the organisation looks like now and how it operates. By documenting this well, we are ready to make a change. This is done using business architecture frameworks, supported by tools in each of the areas concerned. See Business Areas for details. All that is needed is to define the desired situation.
The 'to be' situation or desired situation is described using the same methods and tools, so that a comparison can be made well.
The 'delta' is the action plan that will need to be followed to get from here to there. It is a clear description of what needs to be changed towards this goal and will be written in terms of a detailed project plan.
You then decide how to continue, whether to continue with PL Advice at all in implementing these improvements.
How to start
Please contact me via the contact form. I will first visit for a presentation and discussion of the product and approach as explained here. Then you can decide whether to continue on this approach.