What does it really take to make your organisation successful?

Business Topic

How do you align structure, incentives and behaviours to deploy your business strategy? How do you design and manage transformational change programmes? And how do you govern increasingly complex, multi-cultural, virtual organisations?

You need a holistic approach to make an organisation successful and that means looking much further than organisational structure. Managers waste too much time obsessing about organisational structure when they should be making sure that the structure doesn’t get in the way of delivering the strategy. Eliminate complexity, ambiguity and bureaucracy and then you can focus on aligning people to your strategic goals. So from the top to the bottom of the organisation everyone is clear what they're supposed to be doing. Having a compelling and inspirational vision is also vital. People always want to be part of something bigger than them. They also want to be treated like adults, so creating the right motivational climate is really key. Governance is also important: having the right decision making processes in place so that you get effective communication and effective collaboration across departments and organisational silos. Organisations are becoming increasingly more complex, so having clarity and improving team work are critical to success.

Great theories and elegant models will always come up short unless they capture the imagination of the people on the ground.

Celerant’s answer

At Celerant Consulting, rather than offer up theoretical recommendations about what you could do, we take a pragmatic view and say ‘This is what you actually can do.’ We work with companies to help shape their thinking, deliver insights and get all the right puzzle pieces in place - and then we help them actually execute that thinking. It’s not just about theory and nice models and concepts, it’s about getting down on the ground to help drive results up.