Organizational design is best described as that structure which yields the optimal results for your business or endeavor through proper coordination of strengths, functions, resources, goals, objectives, interests, internal and external demands, knowledge and skill.
Your organization may be in need of a traditional hierarchy in order to best coordinate its efforts to fulfill mission…or it may suffer from such a structure. Traditional hierarchies often do well when a strict chain-of-command is needed.
A matrix environment may serve well your needs or impede personal achievement and contribution. Matrix environments can be very productive structures when sales and quality controls are necessary to bolster revenue and maintain standards.
Flexible structures lending freedom to new innovation and research and development could also be appropriate. Flexible structures allow for a high degree of communication and knowledge sharing in research and development and in learning and creative organizations.
The truth is that, all too often, organizations often fall into shape by default rather than purposefully make their own. Organizational structure needs to be designed to further goal attainment and mission fulfillment. With a holistic approach to the shape of your organizational structure all within it and external to it can be enabled to function and perform to their full potential.
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