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Korn Ferry Organization
Design Master Series
Rajiv Krishnan
Managing Director of Korn Ferry Advisory
T
echnology. Customers.
Markets. They are all
changing faster than ever.
And businesses are transforming to
keep up or keep ahead. Auto brands
are selling services, not just cars.
Manufacturers are selling data, not
just products. Some businesses are
pushing into new territories, others
are merging. No sector is immune.
Shatrunjay Krishna
Senior Principal
organizations are designed directly
impacts their market success. Org
design not only affects strategy
execution but has a deep impact on
company’s culture and employees’
career paths.
Korn Ferry, global organizational
consulting fi rm, would be
conducting a masterclass on org
design & effectiveness. It would be a
participative session where senior
Korn Ferry leaders would share
their insights on issues related to
organisation design with the HR
Community.
It is a huge challenge for an
organization to constantly reinvent
itself. The root cause is the inability
to create internal alignment
between their structure, their people
and their strategy. There lies the
importance of having the right
organizational design that is devised
in line with the organization’s
purpose and execution strategy.
It is a known fact that the way
In the session, we will cover the
following:
• Organisation Design issues:
It is important to understand
organisation design issues
even before we start working
on them. There are some
‘symptoms’ that point towards
the need to review organisation
design - they can point towards
major rejig or small-scale
changes.
• Key Drivers of
Organisation Design:
Business strategy, customer
value proposition, scale and
stage (of organisational life-
cycle) of the business are macro
level drivers of the organisation
design. We can identify
organisation design archetypes
that suit specifi c business
strategy depending on scale and
growth aspirations.
• Level structure and other
adjacent issues: Organization
design practitioners need
to understand adjacent
frameworks like job evaluation
and level structure (Flat vs
hierarchical). P & M
Organisation Effectiveness Master class
Timing Topic Objectives Audience facilitation
45 mins • Key organisation design
issues • Ensure common understanding of what issues
are org design issues • Key org design issues in India (industry
discussions)
• Participants to bring up potential issues that they
have observed in their experiences
45 mins • Key drivers of org design • How business startegy/customer value
– implication of business
proposition impacts the organisation design
strategy, customer value • Organisation design archetypes and their
proposition and business
suitability for business models
model
• Go-to-market and internal units design
• Case based exercise • Participants to share their organisation CVP /
Business Strategy and org archetypes
30 mins • Level structure and other • How level structure impacts employee
adjacent issues
behaviours. Share key insights on level
structure • Participants to share experience of different level
structure and how it impacts their organisation
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