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In order to implement strategy, an organization needs to integrate structure, processes, and people. A successful redesign will focus the company's resources on its strategic priorities and reduce costs. An example of a typical motivation for a redesign is a company that decided to expand outside of its US home base.
McKinsey • Getting organizational redesign right
So the concept includes unfreezing (destabilising the status quo), movement (creating the motivation to learn – aided by Action Research approach), and then refreezing (seeks to stabilize the group at a new quasi-stationary equilibrium in order to ensure that the new behaviours are relatively safe from regression).
Linda Holbeche • Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR
Establish the priority for the change;
Jeffrey Hiatt • ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
guide change management activities
Jeffrey Hiatt • ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
When leaders don't deliver what they promise, employees throw out or undermine the redesign effort. It's six times more likely for executives at these companies to "declare victory" than at companies that just have one or two golden rules.
McKinsey • Getting organizational redesign right
For managers and supervisors
Jeffrey Hiatt • ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
It probably gives you an idea of context discovery when doing organization design in a large corporation. To understand what might need to change and why Microsoft's CEO Steve Sinofsky had to go through 'three months of 100 meetings. Windows leadership had to balance incentives with the structure for the organizational change to be successful. Sino... See more
Cedric Chin • Org Structure Isn’t Everything in Org Design
Successful change