Start working on your organizational structure straight away. The Organizational Structure Kit guides your collaboration to get the structural design of your business right.
Framework & Examples
Comprehensive framework and key concepts on organizational structure. A selection of case examples to benchmark against.
Process & Workshops
Clear guidance how to set up work processes and pre-designed workshops allowing you to progress through different project stages in line with your needs.
Tools & Templates
Embedded tools to co-create key elements of your organizational design and ready-made templates to capture your work results.
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✓ Organizational Structure Kit x Team Kit x Agile Organizing Kit x Leadership Development Kit x Organize for Self-Management Kit (beta)
+Exhaustive framework +360 diagnostic tool +9 work tools +1 process & planning guide +3 exemplary workshop agendas +Presentation and work templates +Embedded library of case examples
✓Team Kit ✓Organizational Structure Kit ✓Agile Organizing Kit ✓Leadership Development Kit ✓Organize for Self-Management Kit (beta)
+Exhaustive frameworks +Customization and diagnostic tools +40 work tools +5 process & planning guides +15 exemplary workshop agendas +Presentation and work templates +Embedded library of case examples
✓1h expert coaching session (online) ✓All updates included
„The Kits work perfectly as a foundation for deeper organizational understanding, leading to better organizational design. I've used it in my work as a useful framework for collaborative workshops with stakeholders of the organization. This leads to higher engagement and prepares for a frictionless change process.“
“Management Kits provided a structured framework to engage and guide a cross-functional team to re-design an organization structure aligned with a changing business strategy.”
“The Organizational Structure Kit explains in detail how organizational design works in practice. Tools such as a canvas with the six key elements needed for restructuring, sample agendas for designing working sessions, case studies and tailor-made coaching have accompanied and supported me as project manager step by step in the successful restructuring of two organizational units.”
Benefit from a free expert coaching session to kickstart your work getting the structural design of your business right (included in the subscription).
Kit Content
Quick Start
INTRODUCTION to organizational structure
GOALS - Define how your structure follows your strategy
LIMITS - Scope and focus your organizational structure work
ACTIVITIES - Define the key activities aligned to your strategy
UNITS - Seperate functions into units
LINKS - Link units and ensure cooperation
SHAPE - Set spans of control and organizational layers
PROCESS - How to run your work process
Downloads and Resources
Quick Start
How to work with this Kit
Your custom work plan - Kit customization tool
Your Kit Board canvas
Your project kick-off
Your expert coaching session
INTRODUCTION to organizational structure
INTRODUCTION to Management Kits
INTRODUCTION to organizational structure
Example: Adapting organizational structures to support a digital strategy
The Kit Board - Your organizational structure in one page
GOALS - Define how your structure follows your strategy
GOALS - Define how your structure follows your strategy: overview
Goals framework
Develop your principles (Tool 1)
Define implications of "structure follows strategy" (Tool 2)
Establish the ROI of your organizational structure work
Agenda for running your initating session (GOALS and LIMITS)
LIMITS - Scope and focus your organizational structure work
LIMITS - Scope and focus your organizational structure work: overview
Limits framework
Define scope and boundaries of your org design work (Tool 3)
Agenda for running your initiating session (GOALS and LIMITS)
ACTIVITIES - Define the key activities aligned to your strategy
ACTIVITIES - Defining key activities and decision making requirements: overview
Activities framework
Analyze and cluster your key activities (Tool 4)
Agenda for running your activities session
Example: user approaches to defining activities
UNITS - Seperate functions into units
UNITS - Separate functions into units: overview
Unit grouping framework
Define unit grouping options (Tool 5)
Balance centralization and decentralization in your organization (Tool 6)
Agenda for running your unit session
LINKS - Link units and ensure cooperation
LINKS - Connect your units and ensure collaboration: overview
Links framework
Establish interfaces (Tool 7)
Define cross-unit processes (Tool 8)
Define role profiles (Tool 9)
Design cross-unit groups (Tool 10)
Design matrix reporting (Tool 11)
Agenda for running your links section
Example: how to boost cross-silo collaboration
SHAPE - Set spans of control and organizational layers
SHAPE - Set spans of control and organizational layers: overview
Shape framework
Define spans and layers (Tool 12)
Agenda for running the shape section
PROCESS - How to run your work process
PROCESS - How to run your work process
Process framework
Initiating
Designing
Testing
Downloads and Resources
Overview - Downloads and Resources
Directory of Organizational Structure Kit
Framework presentation materials
Additional resources: Management Kits blog posts on organization design
Additional resource: Organizational capabilities working template
Management Kits are built for decision-makers, team leaders, HR practitioners and advisors, who share the core belief that effective management and organizing are key drivers of sustainable organizational performance and people development. Our Kits combine key insights from management research with innovative approaches to organizing, and a hands-on experience to provide practical and actionable tools to set-up, run and succeed in your management project work. Whether you are a line manager, an HR business partner or a consultant, the Kits contain the frameworks, tools, materials, and process guides to give you and your team the capabilities to drive organizational effectiveness in your business and create positive ROI.
How do I work with the Kit?
The Kit empowers you to kick-off your work process on your management challenge right away. It’s frameworks and work processes are responsive to your business challenge and ambition level. It allows you to engage your team and stakeholders in productive working exchanges right from the start. There is a process guide supporting you align your individual work process to your business needs. For each process step, you’ll find pre-designed workshops (incl. templates and agendas) that build on the various tools included in the Kit. On the Kit platform you have all the materials in one place, accessible at any time. You can download, edit, and print the documents you need for your offline sessions or workshops with your team.
On the Kit platform you have all the materials in one place, accessible at any time. You can download, edit, and print the documents you need for your offline sessions or workshops with your team.
In addition, the subscription includes a free expert coaching session (1 hour, online) to kickstart your work with the Kit.
What is included in the Organizational Effectiveness Suite subscription?
The subscription to our Organizational Effectiveness Suite gives you access to all organizational effectiveness kits, allowing you to work on the full scope of tools to make your organization more effective and agile, develop leadership within the organization, and build on high-performing teams.
The All Management Kits Bundle subscription is annual and includes all of our Kits and tools, namely the Organizational Structure Kit, the Team Kit, the Leadership Development Kit, and the Agile Organizing Kit, as well as all associated tools, guides, and resources. All our resources are continuously updated.
Which theories, frameworks or methodologies are used to create Management Kits?
In terms of theoretical and methodological background, there are three pillars that are particularly important to us at Management Kits: For all our Kits, we first make sure that our content is aligned with key insights from management research in the respective field. This often entails a significant amount of translation work to make the Kits user-friendly and actionable in a practical environment. Second, there is practical project work, consulting experience, and user testing that goes into the Kit design. Third, we believe in the relevance of design thinking methodologies for management problem-solving and we integrate approaches in our Kit design work accordingly.
Is the Kit really actionable and hands-on?
That's the whole idea! We want to empower you to start working on your specific challenges right away. We support you throughout your journey, deploying the tools, and running your work sessions. There's even built-in guidance making sure you can move to implementation step-by-step according to your needs.
What is the difficulty level of the Kit?
Our Kits are designed to accommodate users of all experience levels. The Kit structure allows you to access exactly what is most relevant for you, for example only the tools or know-how sections. Even those well-versed in organizational design will find a significant number of the Kit’s resources useful. For users just getting acquainted with the field of work, the Kit provides resources and background to combine learning and capability-building with relevant activities to start your management challenge without unnecessary delay.
Do you update the Kit?
Building an effective organization is never finished. The same applies to our Kits.
Our Kits contain state-of-the-art management knowledge and tools. We continuously update the Kits, extending the library of use cases and user experiences, and adding new or revising existing tools and workshops. Most of these updates stem from user experiences in working with our Kits. Together, we ensure constant development of best practices.
How does the free expert coaching session work?
A free expert coaching session (1 hour, online) to kickstart your work with the Kit is included in the subscription. How you use this time with our expert is largely up to you.
Most Management Kits users typically benefit most from one of three options:
We use the time to give you a general walkthrough of the Management Kits resources
We discuss the general situation you are in, including some of the challenges and transitions the organization you work with is facing, and we subsequently compile a tailored guide to some of the tools and materials that are likely most effective in your situation.
We focus the discussion on a specific organizational project or leadership development challenge of yours and look at how to best leverage the Kits to address this challenge.
What if I have additional questions applying the Kit to my specific context?
There is a comment section in each part of the Kit. You can use it to ask questions or also share your feedback with us. We will make sure to answer all our users’ questions in due course.
What if we want to use the Kit for our whole team, wider part of the organization, or we need more support?
We are happy to have a conversation about this and develop a more specific offer for your specific needs, such as team subscriptions, tailored enterprise solutions, and our workshop, consulting and coaching offers.
Do you offer price discounts for NGOs/public sector organizations?
For NGOs and public sector organizations, please contact us to receive a tailored offer.
What if I don't like the Kit?
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You can also cancel your subscription at any time in case you do not wish to renew it for another year. You will receive a reminder four weeks before the renewal date in order to avoid any unintended renewals and charges.