If you’re thinking about re-designing your organization—remember, it’s all about aligning with your strategy. Strategy—which includes vision, mission and goals—should be the foundation for building your organization, and it should be front and center every time you make a decision about your organization.
Need to decide what your structure and reporting lines should look like? Revising your reward system? Considering how to attract, retain and develop the right people? Trying to foster better collaboration and networking across groups? If you’re tackling any of these challenging issues, you should refer to your strategy as a guidepost for making organizational design decisions.
Jay Galbraith created the star model as a framework for thinking holistically about the major components of organizational design. It’s a great visual and helpful reminder about how all of the pieces of your organization fit together.
An excellent resource on organizational design is Designing Dynamic Organizations by Galbraith, Downey and Kates; it’s user-friendly, a comfortable read and provides a place to dig into details on the star model.
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