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Someone has handed you a new organisation design and you are the one who has to approve it.
Verdict
Send it over. Within a week you know whether it holds, where it breaks, and what it will not survive.
Your own team, a corporate centre or another firm has drafted a structure, and you are being asked to put your name to it. Reading it carefully is not the same as being able to judge it. You get an independent senior read: whether the reasoning is sound, which assumptions were never tested, and what a board or a works council will ask that nobody has answered.
- You get
- A verdict in the first paragraph, not on page forty
- The assumptions it rests on, and which are untested
- Weaknesses ranked by what they cost you, not by how easy they are to fix
- What would have to change for it to hold
- How long
- Inside a week of receiving the material.
- Why it pays
- A design that comes apart in the boardroom costs months, and it usually comes apart on an assumption nobody wrote down.
- Works councils
- Under Dutch (WOR art. 22) and German (BetrVG) law you can fund this at the company's expense. Same judgement either side of the table, and never both in the same case.
- Price
- Fixed, and agreed after the scope rather than before it. Every price is published here.