Organisation design: From theory to practice

Author: Lilian Duckart, a board member of the European Organisation Design Forum and founder of From To, Partners, an organisation design practice dedicated to enabling organisations turn AI vision into impact. 

Overview

Organisation design is increasingly recognised as a critical business capability for translating strategy into execution and driving organisational success. This series of Leading practice guides provides a comprehensive, practice-led introduction to organisation design and sets out what an effective organisation design journey looks like.

Here, we discuss how Galbraith's Star Model can be used to translate strategy into a framework for action, as well as who is responsible for organisation design. Other guides in the series:

• Organisation design: What is it?
• Organisation design: What does effective organisation design look like?
• Organisation design: An end-to-end organisation design journey
• Organisation design: The importance of continuous evaluation