Organisational Management, Step by Step for 2027

Helps leaders design an organisation that works as a whole – structure, roles, decision rights, coordination, governance and culture – and run the redesign that gets it there.

Who it's for

Directors, senior managers, operations and HR leads, consultants and founders who need an organisation to work better as a whole. It suits companies, public bodies and charities, from a growing firm of a hundred people to a large council or group, and its chapters on roles, decisions, coordination and meetings also work on their own.

What you'll learn

• Diagnose misalignment with the 7S model (after Waterman, Peters and Phillips) and turn your strategy into weighted design criteria with Galbraith's Star Model
• Compare the main structural types and Mintzberg's configurations, then judge three realistic options against your criteria
• Decide what to centralise with Prahalad and Doz's integration–responsiveness grid, and get spans of control and layers right
• Clarify accountabilities with a RACI matrix and role charters, and decision rights with RAPID, developed at Bain & Company
• Design coordination between units and a management operating rhythm that gives every forum a clear purpose and removes duplicates
• Build governance with terms of reference and matters reserved for the board, and diagnose culture with the cultural web (after Johnson and Scholes)
• Run an organisation redesign as a five-phase project, from mandate to a six-month review

What's inside

• 87 pages, 12 chapters
• Every chapter follows the same pattern: key concepts, a step-by-step method, an illustrative example from a fictional UK organisation, a ready-to-use tool, common mistakes, a key-steps recap and a "Try it" exercise to apply the chapter to your own work
• Tools to copy and use, such as the 7S Alignment Grid, the Decision Rights Register and Delegated Authority Schedule, and the Redesign Project Plan
• A 90-day redesign action plan and a glossary of the terms used throughout
• PDF in A4 format — read on screen or print
• Instant download after purchase

Contents

1. Diagnosing the Organisation with the 7S Model
2. Writing Design Criteria from Strategy
3. Choosing a Structure That Fits
4. Deciding What to Centralise
5. Getting Spans and Layers Right
6. Defining Roles and Accountabilities
7. Clarifying Who Decides with RAPID
8. Designing Coordination Between Units
9. Designing the Management Operating Rhythm
10. Building Governance That Works
11. Diagnosing Culture with the Cultural Web
12. Running an Organisation Redesign

Part of The Business Library

This title is one of the 55 ebooks in The Business Library, available together for £109 (worth £1,437 if bought separately: the total of the individual prices of the included titles in our store). It is also included in The Ultimate Business Bundle, which adds 8 checklists and toolkits and 10 workbooks — all 73 products for £147.