Organization Realignment:
Putting structure in sync with strategy

SiloSmashers offers a systematic process for realigning your organization’s structure to fully support the strategic plan. This process combines the distilled knowledge of more than 15 years of successful government and business engagements.

An effective realignment examines every aspect of the organization, questioning how each component can be improved to achieve Peak Performance® in meeting strategic goals. Our process encompasses four broad areas:

• Benchmarking
• Realignment
• Implementation
• Updates

Benchmarking

In this initial stage, we bring together key decision-makers and stakeholders to clarify strategic goals, assess the current organizational structure, diagnose problems and opportunities, locate bottlenecks to decision-making and performance, identify desired outcomes and determine the conditions necessary to achieve these outcomes.

Realignment

Collaboration is crucial at this point in the process. To succeed, the new organizational design must reflect the input and consensus of your stakeholders. Providing expert support and proven facilitation services, we help you:

• Create a high-level map of organization workflow and processes
• Determine the correct organizational structure for the work involved
• Establish design criteria based on the benchmarks established
• Generate alternative designs
• Reach a consensus on the best design choice

Many factors influence the design alternatives, including work groupings, the need for teams, use of scarce resources, cross-organizational linkages, management roles, key processes, information sharing and the system for performance management and improvement.

Implementation

During this stage, we help you put the realignment plan into effect, applying our systematic approach to change management. Through this approach, we:

• Align and engage leadership in the implementation process
• Assess the impact of the realignment on the organization
• Develop a transition strategy that addresses these impacts
• Create a step-by-step organization change management plan
• Prepare and equip the workforce for the transition
• Engage and communicate with stakeholders to gain the active support

Updates

Realignment is a continuing process. That’s because so many factors change constantly. We conduct periodic assessments to see if updates are needed to bring your organization back into alignment.