Library
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Governance
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This paper by Deloitte explores some of the new realities of reshaping organisations in an age of austerity, looking at how organisations can proactively and strategically adapt their size and shape in order to deliver more with less. Four public sector success stories are highlighted.
This article is a more in-depth description of each of the ‘Nine Tests of Organisation Design’, a practical framework to evaluate an existing structure of organisation design. The tests provide a company’s management with a structured approach for analysing all the key variables of organisational success.
This article from the Ashridge Business School outlines a new approach to organisation design which includes a rigorous framework for design choices based on nine key tests of organisational effectiveness. The tests help managers to be more thoughtful about problems that may occur and future changes that may be needed and help managers weigh up the options of different designs and provide a rigorous analytical structure for making design choices.
