Set The Context For Design
The 'context’ stage is about understanding and articulating the need for change and gathering data, both factual and intuitive, to build the business case for change. At this stage you should also identify those people who are key to the success of the change and engage them in understanding the objectives and benefits of change.
Guidance
Work at this stage in the Organisation Design process is typically carried out in a 'discrete' manner, for example, by working closely with the senior leadership team. The role and contribution of an Organisation Design practitioner at this stage is to help senior staff to develop their thinking.
Facilitating discussions - The Organisation Design practitioner can help senior staff with this stage by facilitating discussions.
Providing tools and frameworks - The Organisation Design practitioner can provide tools and frameworks which help to define the case for change and ensure that the leadership team are enabled to complete the preparation stages fully and robustly.
Challenging ideas - The Organisation Design practitioner can challenge ideas and offer alternative or external perspectives.
Ensuring understanding - Practitioners can also ensure that leaders clearly understand the likely impact and investment that will be required to make change happen by educating senior executives in the process of change.
Tools
SWOT Analysis
– list of an organisations Pros & Cons to help define a ‘To Be’ state.
Pest Analysis- A Strategy Framework that you can use to assess the external macro environment that an organisation operates in.
Porter’s Five Forces- An ‘Outside in’ business unit strategy tool used to analyse the values of an industry structure by identifying five fundamental competitive forces.
Cost Benefit Analysis – simple technique for deciding whether to make a change or not.
De Bono Visioning – This tool helps individuals adopt a variety of perspectives to explore various situations and challenges.
Stakeholder Analysis – Recognise key stakeholders and development of a management strategy.
Key Questions