A Better Way to do Organizational Design
by Lois Melbourne
I listened to a client’s story of doing a reorg for a department of a few hundred people. It was painful to hear about the departments represented by pieces of paper, people represented by post-it notes, lists on spreadsheets to make sure nobody got left out, and meetings that lasted way into the night. It is hard enough to go through the organizational design process of the changes needed for a reorg – you don’t want to have to fight the visualization and automation process too.
This is a blatant Aquire case example – I don’t typically blog this directly about our solutions. The story is not a fairy tale – but it does include “magic” and has a happy ending.
Now, this client has OrgPublisher to do their planning. When showing it to teams of HR professionals their eyes lit up. They could see that simply creating what-if scenarios and projecting the options on the wall allowed for everybody to be on the same ‘page’ at the same time. Searches are automating the creation of groups to consider for positions or for other changes. Changing titles, reorganizing departments, reassigning positions was so easy that a quick cheat sheet and a few show ‘n tells and they were off and running.
No longer does the process over run the decision making. Costs can be rolled up for review dynamically as changes are considered. Headcount, span of control and budget changes are reflected with each change. One HR pro said –“oh my gosh it looks like magic”.
Now their organizational design, visualization of the org charts and succession planning are all managed by their HR professionals with a similar feel, confidence and efficiency.
This is a very rewarding part of my job – seeing Aquire solutions solve problems and make customers very happy.
Cheers,
Lois
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