Organisational design

Overview

90% of leaders agree that organisational agility and the ability to respond effectively to challenges is critical for long-term business success. A third of leaders believe their organisation lacks this capability.

Our organisation design capability is focused on revolutionising how businesses think about organisation design, partnering with clients to design and implement the organisational models and structures that will deliver maximum agility, flexibility and responsiveness. Our specialists combine the best of the Strategy& and PwC toolkits and thought leadership to deliver adaptable, agile and sustainable value for our clients.

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We help clients design an organisation and set-up of their people that is fit for purpose and addresses the internal, external, formal and informal factors that determine how well an organisation can put into practice its strategy. 

We support your organisation through every step of this process, from the early stages to the implementation phase. Our portfolio of projects involves the following:

 

  • Organisational health checks
  • Governance and clarity on decision making
  • Capability modelling and functional deep dives
  • Contemporary / agile teaming constructs
  • Organisational cost effectiveness 
  • Performance management frameworks
  • Interaction models
  • Service management frameworks
  • Strategic workforce planning
  • Workforce transitioning and implementing organisational design changes
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Issues you may be facing

  • Have you developed a new strategy involving expansion, growth or new partnerships?
  • Are your resource allocations and capabilities not in line with your organisational strategy?
  • Have you grown extensively over the last years without reviewing your organisational structure?
  • Is your organisation not set up to enable growth?
  • Do you have the right skills in place to deliver your strategy?
  • Do you have unclear reporting relationships, lack of accountability, or duplications of effort?
  • Is there scope for centralisation within your organisation to enable efficiencies from economies of scale?

How we can help you

Assess

Our organisational design projects aim at enabling client strategy as well as the capabilities required to deliver on the strategy. In this Assess stage we review the strategy, understand the organisation/structural implications required to deliver the strategy and develop design principles. We often accelerate the phase using our Digital Twin tool.

We use design principles to shape the future of the organisation and ensure that the designs we create are strongly linked to the strategic objectives. These principles are the translation of the strategic objectives into guiding parameters by which the design can be developed. These are agreed early in the project and help communicate how and why design decisions are being made.

Our specialised digital tools enable global and industry insights and how this will influence the design and future workforce requirements.

We also ensure we establish a baseline of the current state of the organisation and identify constraints and other implications of making organisation changes.

 

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Marthle du Plessis

Marthle du Plessis

Workforce of the Future Africa Leader, PwC South Africa

Tel: +27 (0) 11 797 4075