What to expect?
We support you in a structured and methodical way on your path into the future. More success through targeted change. Our Organizational Architecture Review offers you a comprehensive analysis and concrete measures, comparable to a health check for your organization. Together we ensure that your organizational structure and processes are optimally aligned with your goals.
In our work with organizations, we are regularly confronted with two major challenges:
- We are called into the project once one or more organizational-development anti-patterns have already struck:
- An organizational-development measure cannot be calculated like a classic project (taking exactly X weeks and thus costing Y euros). This makes organizations reluctant to commission support that cannot provide these details. Paradoxically: in a complex environment, which every organizational development effort is, solutions cannot be defined in advance.
We developed our Organizational Architecture Review specifically to address these challenges.
Overview
Our Offering
Our Organizational Architecture Review delivers analysis and measures at the same time, comparable to a health check including treatment tips in one overall package. We work with you to identify which challenges you need to overcome, which problems need to be solved, and whether the intended solution and approach are suitable to avoid wandering down anti-pattern paths.
Our Expertise
embarc’s consultants have years of practical experience in software architecture and organizational development, and combine these pragmatically and problem-specifically. As consultants and coaches in re-organizations, they are just as active as speakers and authors on the topic of contemporary organizational development.
Typical Occasions
Identify targeted hotspots and first measures to improve your organizational structure. Especially when symptoms of a “struggling” or over-structured organization are being perceived so far, we jointly identify what the cause, effect, and first solution approaches are.
Your Benefit
Our review is designed to address the typical challenges in organizational development: avoid anti-patterns such as changing without clarifying the “why?”, blindly chasing trends, or prematurely harvesting “low hanging fruits”. We also support you in dealing with the issue that organizational-development measures cannot be calculated like classic projects.
Process
The process outlined here is always fundamentally similar, but is individually and precisely tailored to your situation.
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Clarifying the Assignment
Clarifying the access route (evaluation of existing or planned OD measures), defining the evaluation goal, determining the required stakeholders, clarifying the challenges, deriving the need for change
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Architecture Groundwork
Collecting existing and creating new architecture components, such as the organizational architecture vision, the affected organizational structure as-is/to-be, quality goals, organizational conditions, past decisions, risks, etc.
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Review Workshop
Prioritizing quality goals, developing quality scenarios, checking the adequacy of the organizational architecture based on the existing challenges and comparing it against “good patterns” (team/organizational structures such as Team Topologies or unFIX) from practice
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Results Presentation
Naming risks of the OD measure, including traceability back to the review goal and the quality goals, clustering the recommendations for action into “Urgent & Important”