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Is Your Organizational Strategy Aligned with Its Structure?

Discover how to build flexible structures for effective goal achievement and adaptation with our new whitepaper, Strategic Organizational Design

In an era marked by rapid changes and unpredictability, the traditional approaches to organizational strategy and structure have evolved. Leaders now emphasize flexibility, agility, and adaptiveness to respond promptly to market signals and economic shifts.

KEY INSIGHTS:

  • Evolving Strategy: Set a clear direction that serves as a starting point, not an end goal
  • Design for Adaptation: Design organizations to observe, learn, and adapt to thrive in dynamic markets
  • Profit and Purpose: Balance profit-making with maintaining a strong sense of purpose for sustainable success
  • Real-World Examples: Learn from companies like Ritz-Carlton, Amazon, Shein, Zara, and Etsy; Understand how different organizational structures can lead to success or failure

Expert Insights: Gain valuable insights from Professors Ram Shivakumar and Michael Gibbs on the evolving nature of strategy and organizational design. Shivakumar highlights the importance of setting a clear direction that serves as a starting point rather than an end goal, explaining that "old-fashioned strategic planning is dead." Gibbs emphasizes the need for organizations to be designed to observe, learn, and adapt, noting that "designing an organization to optimize doing one thing really well makes little sense today."

For more information, contact us at [email protected] or +1 312.464.8732.

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