Organisation Design

VISTA are members of the international Organisation Design Forum. We have been active participants, presenting with the BBC in 2002, with Eastern Birmingham PCT in 2003, and on the conference committee in 2004.

Our experience in organisation design goes back over 10 years. Recently we supplemented this experience by attending the University of Southern California, Marshal Business School Certification Programme.

An organisation can be a whole corporation or, more often, just one part of it. It can also be public or private, voluntary or community. An organisation can consist of thousands of people or a few dozen. Any leader can see their organisation as the one they have the authority to change and impact. Organisations are nested inside one another. The smaller the organisation the fewer the design choices and decisions we have open to us.

Using the Jay Galbraith Star Model we take the definition of Organisation Design as being the deliberate process of configuring structures, processes, reward systems and people practices to create an effective organisation capable of achieving the business strategy.

Our approach to organisation design integrates the Jay Galbraith, (pdf file) Star model with large group and involvement theory. This gives us a wide range of tools that can be selected and adapted to fit any client situation.