Organisational structure

Is your company considering a restructuring project due to downsizing or business unit realignment?

Has your organisational structure grown to become complex and dysfunctional?

Is there activity and accountability leakage between roles and responsibilities?

Are your personnel costs growing as a percentage to sales?

Assessing, evaluating and redesigning supply chain, logistics or operational structures can net significant performance improvement.

A streamlined and connected structure enables you to achieve tactical and strategic objectives, deliver core business goals, and meet the requirements and obligation for accountability, in a more efficient and effective manner.

A company relies on an equally compatible organisational structure, designed to enhance each business unit, and the entire company’s performance

Definitive roles and responsibilities, partnerships and communication paths are essential to achieving a lean, collaborative and synergistic structure which collectively drives performance outcomes and innovation.

D.Betts specialist’s expertise in developing or modifying organisational structures follows a proven method of evaluation and implementation, including training needs analysis, personnel specification profiling and change management principles.

Drivers:

  • The organisational structure should be flat and as lean as possible with all dependencies and interrelationships defined.
  • Primary focus and responsibility of each organisational business unit should be to its core business.
  • Roles and responsibilities should be clear and unambiguous.
  • Similar and closely related roles and responsibilities should be consolidated into the same organisational business unit.
  • The appointed roles for varying levels of decision making should be clearly identified.
  • Channels of communication, both internally and externally, should be clear and transparent.
  • Responsibilities for specific roles and activities should be concentrated in a single business unit wherever possible, to provide a critical mass of resource knowledge, skills and experience.

Accompanying the documented roles and responsibilities a diverse range of performance measurements, monitoring and accountability mechanisms will be assigned to the business units and individuals.