Optimizing Organization Design (ePub)

Optimizing Organization Design offers a comprehensive
resource and valued guide for anyone interested in improving
organization performance. The book presents an approach to
optimizing organization design that is based on over 100 large
scale projects and 23 research studies that have been completed by
Capelle Associates over the past 25 years. In addition, the book
includes insightful comments from executives on their success in
using this approach. Capelle's research and client experience
reveal that optimizing organization design leads to better
financial performance, customer satisfaction and employee
engagement. It can provide a competitive advantage and a
significant return on investment. It can also become the foundation
of both strategy implementation and human resources management.

Capelle shows that organization design includes the alignment of
a number of critical factors, including positions (vertical and
functional); accountabilities and authorities (managerial and cross
functional); people; deliverables and tasks. He shows that manager
- direct report alignment is the single most important
organization design variable. His research also shows that it is
suboptimal nearly half the time. This is a horrendous waste of
talent and capability, but also provides a significant opportunity
for improvement in organization performance.

Optimizing Organization Design clearly explains how to
implement organization design improvements. This approach includes
people change management, project management, and a cascading,
iterative approach that is based on teams and involves education,
doing real work and feedback. In addition, Optimizing
Organization Design includes special sections on the role of
the Board of Directors, project management, process management and
compensation. In addition, the author has included four case
studies and a useful glossary.