Our framework gives structure to the topic of organization design and defines its principal dimensions. Importantly, the component for outcomes is placed at the center of the framework, representing the core motivation that drives everything else.
Learn more about these dimensions and the key questions to ask around each in our guiding questions tool.
Source: Deloitte Consulting LLP, 2019.
Organization Context represents the complex system in which an organization operates. This context includes both an organization’s surrounding environment and the ecosystem of stakeholders and competitors with which it shares that environment.
Purpose represents the start of the organization design conversation. A company’s purpose defines why it exists. Organizations are under pressure from their stakeholders to be open about and authentic to a defined purpose.
Strategy represents the choices that bring the organization’s purpose to life. Strategy describes why the organization exists through the lens of what it’s attempting to accomplish.
Culture represents the “… pattern of basic assumptions … to cope with its problems of external adaptation or internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid … ." Specifically, it’s “how things are done around here.”