ZERO-BASED ORGANIZATION

In the first project phase, the team is concentrating primarily on the current activity and organizational structure:

• What requirements result from the corporate strategy for the organizational structure?
• How many management levels are there between management and operational execution?
• How many employees do the managers lead?
• How much capacity is currently allocated to direct activities and how much to indirect activities?
• Who really does what?

Transparency about the current structures is the basis for the further quantification of potentials and the dimensioning of the target organization.

The analysis and interpretation of the organizational and activity structure is carried out using a combination of

• external and internal benchmarks
• best practices
• maturity level determinations (e.g. digitalization)
• mapping of the core process with the organizational structure
• strategy check

The potential identified is first roughly quantified on the basis of the activity structures determined in the analysis phase. They are then detailed in the course of dimensioning the target organization.

The focus of this phase is the "design" of the ideal organizational structure. The project team defines the design guidelines (e.g. number of management levels and management spans), determines the right level of centralized and decentralized functions and determines the optimal dimensions of the organization. 

In the end, the blueprint organization is combined into a standardized and scalable organizational structure.

Once the target organization has been clarified, the "how" of implementation follows. Depending on the extent of the reorganization, the transformation programs must be designed. The following are of crucial importance:

• communication of the goals and the reorganization process
• program management
• realistic roadmap for staggering possible roll-outs over time
• rapid implementation of the dimensioning targets