Organization Design
Process Design Pattern
Purpose
Organization Design establishes and maintains the elements of the design of the operating model for an organization.
Entry Criteria
A manager of a team has identified a need to change the current organizational design / structure to achieve one or more objectives.
Objects
- Current Operating Model (from past organizational changes).
- Target Operating Model
Process Owner
Person from: HR (OD), or EA(BA), or CEO.
Activities
There are a number of approaches to organization design:
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Enterprise Architecture Description Frameworks
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Change Program Approaches (which may use the same approaches) Program Management
Roles
- Business Architect.
- Organization Designer
- Information Systems Architect.
- Enterprise Architect
- Also links to:
- Process Owner / Manager
- Auditors
References
This process links to the following Best Practice, External Standards and Product Standards. Links to other processes that this process may start are also indicated.
External Standards
ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems: Requirements
ISO 42010:2022 Software, Systems and Enterprise - Architecture Description
Architecture Description Frameworks
Grenier Curve and Growth Models
Book References
Designing Dynamic Organizations, Jay Galbraith and Dianne Downey and Amy Kates
Organization Design, Jay Galbraith
Competitive Advantage, Michael E. Porter
Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Adaptive Enterprise, Stephan Haeckel
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, Jeanne W. Ross and Peter Weill and David C. Robertson
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices, Peter Drucker
The Fractal Organization, Patrick Hoverstadt
Lean Thinking, James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
Wellsprings of Knowledge, Dorothy Leonard
Re-Creating the Corporation, Russell Ackoff
Exploring Strategy, Gerry Johnson and Richard Whittington and Kevan Scholes
The Great Transition: Using the Seven Disciplines of Enterprise Engineering, James Martin
Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies and Practices, Bob Tricker
Waltzing with the Elephant, Mark Toomey
Architecting Systems, Hillary Sillitto
Initiates
The team model provides the basic elements for organization design and describing the operating model.
The Organizational Structure is represented on an Organization Chart. A two dimentional organization chart is shown below. Each box on the Organisation Chart is a Team. The organization chart provides the context and relationships of any team in the organization.
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