WoW Organization Design Consultancy – Can be remote

Agile World offers the service of organizational design consultancy, to meticulously define and organize the structure of companies, create job titles, and allocate resources (i.e. personnel) to improve efficiency and increase productivity. Supporting the making of strategic decisions with regard to company hierarchy and personnel infrastructure.

Experience with the organization, business structuring, business process definition and deployment, recruitment policies and employee reward systems, role and title definition for both senior, mid and junior staff.

Based upon business objectives, strategy, processes and operations. Followed by meticulous planning, analysis and research.

Working with MD’s, Partners and senior managers to make sure the proposed changes are as economical and effective as possible.

Typical Benefits

No two organisations are the same even in the same sectors, but all are focused on common objectives provide product or service, create consumer engagement, transact and establish consumer engagement lifecycle.

Typical areas where value is realised;

• Increase customer acquisition, advocacy and lifetime value
• Improved business agility and ability to rapidly respond to change and opportunity
• Increased credibility, confidence and influence across the business
• Effective delivery against financial targets
• Enabling positive behavioural change
• Fostering a human centric, transparent, trustworthy and agile culture
• Viable, scalable and actionable roadmap to deliver innovation and change
• More consistent and sustainable profitability and business growth
• Successful, timely delivery of evidence based transformative change
• More satisfied and engaged employees with increased retention and productivity
• Builds flexibility into business DNA
• Supports culture of next best action
• Creates a focus on work that delivers value
• Reduces management overhead, bureaucracy and timelines
• Delivers transparent and scalable working practices
• Enables idea to value workflow for executive to customer engagement
• Delivers flexible portfolio management
• Enables continuous and market responsive evolution

Overview

New Ways of Working Programmes are now quite common in major organisations, this consultancy service is intended to offer a holistic approach to WoW. It is imperative to be holistic in establishing new ways of working as boundaries to old ways of working in portfolio management, finance, ITIL and HR can very quickly become an impediment to transformation if they are not considered as part of it.   

Strategy

• Identify, agree and prioritise new ideas and opportunities to generate business value
• Validation and endorsement of decisions and approach
• Enhanced cross-business collaboration, communication and buy in
• Agree and define actions and a feasible roadmap
• Gain context and insight to enable faster, more informed decisions and actions
• More perceived objectivity without political bias

Return on Investment

Exact returns are difficult to stipulate without a scope definition however there are a number of themes;

• Flattened hierarchy as management becomes systemic giving a 10% to 40% FTE reduction of management and increasing the producer to non producer ratio
• Increased throughput of value creating work (up as much as 60%) as unplanned work is revealed and dramatically reduced (down as much as 60%)
• Increased visibility at executive leadership level with new capacity to refocus the entire organisation every three months
• Operational measurement of all work to indicate blockages in the flow of work to provide continuous improvements
• Operational flexibility as the focus moves to skills and teams over time served and individual role
• Staff galvanization and focus as pay and rewards become team based and transparent

Approach

The consultancy service takes a building block approach so that the client always has a clear line of sight on what they get for their money. Each of the following steps builds a bespoke client service, responsive to both the experience and context of the client. Additionally is allows for course correction as part of an iterative engagement focused on the client Subject Matter Expertise augmented by Transformation Consultants with numerous framework experiences.  

Engagement

• Initial consultancy to define scope – 2 to 4 weeks to be agreed in writing prior to commencement
• Proposal presentation to refine scope – 1 to 2 weeks to be agreed in writing prior to commencement

Consultancy

The exact components and size of work will be defined during the engagement phase

• Delivery strategy document
• Benefits proposal document
• Delivery model proposal document
• Governance model proposal document
• Scaling strategy document
• Target operating model proposal document
• All staff HR contracts review action
• Pilot proposal for first area document

Delivery

• Team building – size and locations defined in consultancy
• Support document creation
• Training strategy
• Communications strategy

The delivery team will change over the course of an engagement in the following way;

• 2% of total team in Engagement
• 10% of total team in Consultancy
• 30% of total team in Delivery for pilot delivery
• 100% of total team in Delivery for scaled delivery
• 30% of total team in Delivery for hand over to in house delivery teams
• 10% of total team in Delivery for hand over to in house leadership teams

Example

Actuals for delivery in an organisation of 90,000 people in 8 main locations globally

• 4 consultant team in Engagement
• 20 consultant team in Consultancy
• 60 consultant team in Delivery for pilot delivery
• 200 consultant team in Delivery for scaled delivery
• 60 consultant team in Delivery for hand over to in house delivery teams
• 20 consultant team in Delivery for hand over to in house leadership teams

Timeline

Timelines are subject to scope, complexity and team size the above was 2 years.

Our Requirements of You

• Ensuring an executive sponsor from your organisation is allocated to the engagement, communicates the rationale behind it and signs off any ‘Terms of Reference’
• Assisting in all possible ways to ensure that a contract, (and confidentiality agreement where necessary) is in place, in advance of any work commencing
• Ensuring all support is in place and access is granted for all and any required data, processes, policies, meeting rooms and nominated resources to enable successful delivery of the engagement
• Ensuring sponsor availability within the agreed timeline, to resolve any significant issues that may impact the timely completion of the engagement, if not resolved in a timely manner.

Our Commitments to You

• Provide support throughout service delivery using our World Class Professionals and Subject Matter Experts
• Provide high quality deliverables in a timely manner and in line with agreements upon engagement with the client. (Any changes to this will be mutually agreed in writing, in advance, between all involved parties)
• Provide deep insights and genuine value-add in all possible areas throughout the engagement
• Provide progress updates and feedback at regular intervals, agreed in advance or at the engagement ‘kick off session’
• Respect all personal and professional development of client team members throughout the engagement

Deliverables WoW Organisational Transformation

• WoW service design of organization
• WoW enacted service design as pilot
• WoW enacted service design as organisational transformation
• WoW target operating model
• WoW replacement for ITIL
• WoW enterprise work funding model
• WoW enterprise roles definition
• WoW communications
• WoW training

Service Delivery Model Project Based Engagement

Project based engagements operate on the basis of agreeing work and any outcomes or milestones for delivery in advance of commencement of any engagement in a ‘Statement of Work’. Prices are fixed for the agreed deliverables and should changes be required, these may incur changes to delivery costs. Payment for Project Based Engagements are agreed on a case-by-case basis, giving consideration to risk, contract value, client payment history, relationship longevity and duration.