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We help you with the following areas of your business:

Organization Design

Create well-defined organizational structures that support strategic goals, improve decision-making, and empower teams to deliver measurable results by removing complexity. 
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Shared Service Strategy & Matrix Alignment

Streamline the integration of shared services and matrixed organizations to foster collaboration, define accountability, and achieve operational excellence.
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Executive Leadership Team Composition & Structure

Unlock potential by defining and structuring top management and executive leadership teams to align with strategic business models. Well-defined ELT structures solidify operating models and company-wide organization design. 
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Technology & AI Organization Strategy

Develop forward-looking strategies to structure, scale, and empower technology teams, ensuring innovation, transformation readiness, and business partner alignment. Establish a well-governed and structured approach for AI across the organization.
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Organization Design

Empower your organization to thrive by reimagining and simplifying structures, capabilities, and decision-making processes. Shed unnecessary complexity, improve operational efficiency, and unlock your team’s full potential.

In today’s fast-changing business environment, companies often respond to challenges—such as competitive pressures, investor demands, and technological disruption—by layering on additional structures, leadership roles, and departments. While well-intentioned, this can lead to inefficiencies, bloating, and decision paralysis. Reshaping or restructuring efforts often fall short when they fail to address the fundamentals: organizational structure, core capabilities, functional integration, decision-making clarity, and—most critically—the alignment and effectiveness of your people.

Org.Works Advisory can help your organization navigate and solve these challenges by delivering tailored approaches for:

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Redesigning Leadership Structures

Optimize leadership teams and department hierarchies to enhance clarity, accountability, and agility.
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Eliminating Low-Value Layers or Structures

Identify, then simplify or remove intermediary structures and organizations that add complexity without delivering meaningful value.
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Establishing an Analytics and AI Strategy

Create a cohesive organizational approach for analytics and AI, addressing ownership, governance, democratization, and cross-departmental collaboration for AI assets.
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Determining Business or Digital Transformation Philosophy

Consider how transformation efforts are perceived or valued in your business and whether transformation teams are organized in a manner to support the company’s goals for change.
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Streamlining Shared Services

Align shared services with departmental needs to reduce redundancy, improve efficiency, and drive operational excellence.
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Improving Decision and Process Alignment

Improving Decision and Process Alignment
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Developing a Structure and Approach to Support Innovation

Assess whether a centralized or embedded approach is best for your organization. Determine how centralized innovation teams can improve alignment, integration, and handoffs with business or technology teams.

Shared Service & Matrix Alignment

Leverage shared services and matrixed structures as strategic enablers—not obstacles—to your company’s goals and operating model. Org.Works™ leverages its proven Framework for Organization Design to ensure that shared services and matrix organizations align with strategies and operational models to deliver efficiency, accountability, and measurable value.

Many organizations rely on shared services and matrix structures to streamline operations and achieve economies of scale. However, when misaligned with strategy or poorly implemented, these models can create inefficiencies, decision bottlenecks, and unnecessary complexity. Whether your organization is establishing shared services for the first time or reassessing the effectiveness of existing ones, Org.Works Advisory helps you design, align, and optimize these critical structures.

We specialize in addressing the following challenges:

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Assessing the Need for Shared Services

Evaluate whether establishing a shared services organization aligns with your strategic goals and operational needs.
02

Designing Shared Service Structures

Develop and align shared service organizations to work seamlessly with functions and departments, ensuring clarity and accountability.
03

Streamlining Matrixed Teams

Identify opportunities to simplify overly complex matrix structures, reducing redundancy and improving collaboration.
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Ensuring Cross-Functional Collaboration

Define clear lines of responsibility and decision-making to eliminate bottlenecks and foster faster, more effective outcomes.
05

Maximizing Leverage and Economies of Scale

Optimize shared service functions—such as finance, HR, IT, or legal—to achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, and consistency.
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Balancing Centralization and Flexibility

Strike the right balance between centralization for efficiency and decentralization for responsiveness to business needs.

Executive Leadership Team Composition & Structure

An effective Executive Leadership Team (ELT) is the embodiment of a company’s strategy, values, and alignment. The composition, structure, and processes of this top management group are critical to achieving organizational goals and sending clear signals to employees, the board, and investors about what matters most.

A well-structured ELT not only solidifies the company’s operating model but also ensures that decision-making and strategic planning processes are effective and aligned. However, many organizations face challenges with their ELT—teams that are either too large or too small, misaligned with strategic priorities, or assembled based on individuals rather than the roles they represent.

Org.Works Advisory can help you address these challenges by designing and optimizing your ELT for success. We focus on:

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Optimizing ELT Composition and Structure

Define principles for ELT membership to ensure the team reflects the right roles, expertise, and balance needed to execute the company’s strategy.
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Assessing Potential Subcommittees and CEO Direct-Report Alignment

Determine whether subcommittees of the ELT are required or whether the ELT should be synonymous with the CEO’s direct reports. Establish interoperability standards for multiple groups.
03

Strengthening Strategic Planning Processes

Align the ELT’s strategic planning processes with organizational goals, ensuring clarity, focus, and actionable outcomes.
04

Improving ELT Meeting Effectiveness

Enhance the productivity of ELT meetings by streamlining agendas, decision-making processes, and follow-through on actions.
05

Integrating ELT Dynamics with Organizational Design

Ensure the ELT’s structure complements and reinforces the broader organizational design and operating model.

Technology & AI Organization Strategy

Technology & AI are at the core of organizational success, driving efficiency, enhancing customer experiences, and empowering team productivity. An effective technology organization not only supports but propels strategic impact, ensuring technology investments translate into meaningful business results. However, achieving this requires a clear strategy, a well-defined organizational structure, and strong business partnerships to harness innovation and optimize outcomes.

With deep expertise in technology leadership and organizational design, Org.Works Advisory helps businesses optimize technology’s strategic role through tailored solutions addressing:

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Technology Organization Design

Build an agile, scalable technology organization aligned with business priorities, capable of delivering both operational excellence and transformative innovation.
02

Technology Strategy Development

Develop a sustainable, comprehensive technology strategy that aligns with corporate goals, balances innovation with operational stability, and drives measurable outcomes.
03

IT as a Strategic Asset, Not an Order Taker

Redefine IT’s role from a service provider to a strategic partner by leading with an IT strategy and embedding it into business decision-making and innovation initiatives.
04

Analytics and AI Organization Strategy

Establish a clear structure and framework for analytics and AI, including IT’s leadership and ownership posture, governance, and cross-functional collaboration to unlock data-driven value.
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What it Takes to Be a Successful Technology Leader

Identify and develop technology leadership competencies, ensuring leaders are equipped to drive change, foster innovation, and build cross-functional partnerships.
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IT Governance, Prioritization, and Project Intake Processes

Design and implement governance structures and prioritization frameworks to ensure technology investments align with strategic goals and deliver maximum impact.

Org.Works™ Framework 

for Organization Design Development

Strategy

Define who we are, what we sell, and who our customers are.

Business Model

Align the business model to the strategy. Should the model and structure center around region, brand, product family, channel, or customer?

TMT / ELT

Select the Top Management Team (TLT/ELT) members by core function and business model leadership as basis for structure.

Operating Model

Establish approach for matrix organization or shared services, including decision-making framework.

Organization Design

Design organization, departments, and reporting structures. Create cross-departmental process architecture.
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