May Org Design Wisdom: "The only way to get real change is redesigning the Operating Model – anything less is cosmetic…" - Mark LaScola
It is essential to not confuse “strategic design” with real change. While this work is important and it’s a step in the right direction, if stopped there, leaders ultimately just change organization charts – as if that leads to real, substantive change. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Working at the operating model level is essentially impacting work, jobs, decisions, governance, management and power. We have followed up numerous “strategic redesign” projects by reputable firms only to find an unfinished design with staff struggling to make sense of a world made up of at least of two operating models. With 400+ operating model modernizations under our belt, the OTM difference is the experience of redesigning and implementing operating models through behavior change. Anything less is cosmetic. A big thank you goes to The Organization Design Forum for inviting Mark LaScola, Managing Principal of OTM, and Kellye Testy, CEO of LSAC, to present LSAC's operating model at the 2019 Conference in Seattle!
Upcoming Events
OTM Webinar: You Don’t Have to be Agile to be agile; Designing Flexibility and Speed into Your Operating Model
Thurs., 30 May, 2019 - 10 am PST/7pm CET
Presented by Mark LaScola, Managing Principal and Peter Turgoose, OTM Senior Consultant.
Date: Thursday, 30 May
Start Time: 10PM PST and PHX time/6PM UK time/7PM CET/10PM Dubai time/5PM Melbourne time
Length: 75 mins
Executive Briefings
An intimate executive roundtable aimed at C-Level Executives and Senior Leaders led by Mark LaScola, Managing Principal, and Dan Schmitz, consultant, of ON THE MARK.
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SEATTLE, WA
Date: Mon, 10 June, 2019
Start Time: 11AM-1PM PDT
DENVER, CO
Date: Tuesday, 11 June, 2019
Start Time: 8AM-10AM MDT with Breakfast
Industry Presentation: Organization Design and Executive Leadership
Tues., 11 June 2019 - 3PM MDT
Event Information: An operating model enables an organization to compete effectively. It expresses an organization’s competitive strategy. It supports the development and delivery of required strategic capability. It shapes behavior and decision-making processes. It is a strategic, priority issue that is increasingly landing on the desk of the CEO.
Attendees will leave this session having gained:
- A deeper appreciation for what organization design is and is not
- Substantive considerations of the role that HR can play
- An understanding of the key differences and outcomes differentiating expert-led design from process-led design
- A practical understanding of the most significant mistakes made today when changing an operating model
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