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Organization Design

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It's not about having the "right" design, it's about fully understanding trade-offs

Organization Design is both an art and a science of finding the right organizational system that best enables business strategy and priorities.

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How are you enabling strategy?

Too many times, business leaders with the best of intentions working from past success (usually at another company) slap organization charts on the desks of HR professionals to show how they'd like their reporting structure to change. Capacity and role clarity (or lack thereof) are usually the most common scapegoats. It's easy to draw boxes and lines, overlooking operating assumptions, missing key linkages with other teams, and assuming the organizational strategy is clearly defined and understood.​

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Think strategically. Take time to clarify who you're choosing to be and what you need to deliver before trying to resolve gaps by moving hierarchical boxes and lines.  

Organization Design Client Partnerships

  • AARP

  • Allstate

  • Ameren Energy

  • Axalta Coating Systems

  • Delta Faucet Company

  • Dyno Therapeutics

  • FieldRoutes

  • Funko, Inc.

  • Hydro One

  • Kaiser-Permanente

  • Kohl's

  • Lockheed Martin

  • Lowe's Companies, Inc.

  • Mars Wrigley

  • Masco Canada

  • Non-Profit (Int'l Justice Mission)

  • Panera Bread

  • PG&E

  • Quility Insurance

  • Topcon Positioning

Organization Design Experience

​My experience in organization design includes supporting sweeping, enterprise-wide change driven by shifts in business strategy, comprehensive function redesign, and incremental organizational change:

  • Platform/ founder-led

    • Executive team redesign​

  • Retail enterprise design​

    • Channel​ alignment

    • Retail operations

    • Supply chain resiliency

  • Large retail function/BU design

    • Innovation/ New Product Development

    • Product

    • HR

    • Product Management/ Merchandising

    • Omnichannel

  • Incremental retail function/BU design​

    • Digital Merchandising​

    • Enterprise Architecture (IT)

    • Pricing, Promotions, & Credit

    • Targeted Marketing

    • Omnichannel (Product Management) Resolutions

    • eCommerce Operations

    • Store Operations/ Store Servicing

    • Digital Product Management Personalization, Search, Navigation, Search Engine Optimization

  • Utilities​

    • Customer care design

    • Corporate function design

    • Field management role design

  • Financial services/ insurance​

    • Information Technology​ organization consolidation

Galbraith's Star Model™

Jay Galbraith developed the "Star Model™" framework for analyzing organizations in the 1960s. The Star Model™ is the foundation on which a company bases its design choices. The framework consists of a series of design policies that are controllable by management and can influence employee behavior. The policies are the tools with which management must become skilled in order to shape the decisions and behaviors of their organizations effectively.

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