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Organization Design & Development

Bridge Avenue Partners has significant capabilities in Organization Design & Development. We help you build the structures and implement the management techniques needed to successfully execute your strategy.

A number of forces are driving changes in the way organizations are configured. Among these are:

Globalization
Virtual/Networked Organizations
Telecommuting Organizations
Strategic Partnerships
"Process-Driven" Organizations
"Knowledge Worker/Learning" Organizations

Our Organization Design & Development process is based on:

Insight into Organization Sturctures: Pros and Cons
Understanding Your Strategy
Diagnostic Tools
Architecting the Organization

Insight into Organization Sturctures: Pros and Cons

No longer is it sufficient for an organization to select a Functional or Product or Matrix structure and post an organization chart in the Employee Handbook. Bridge Avenue Partners has expertise in the many forms organizations are taking today. As the strategies and operations of organizations become more complex, so do the considerations of how to best organize to achieve key objectives. Bridge Avenue Partners works with your leadership team to design and implement the structure that is right for your business.

Understanding Your Strategy

Bridge Avenue Partners believes that the design and development of an organization cannot be understood out of context. There are no "right" or "wrong" structures, only structures that either do or do not best enable an organization to achieve its goals. As a result, we start the Organization Design & Development process with an in-depth review of your strategy, considering primarily how the organization will need to structure and deploy its resources to execute the strategy.

Diagnostic Tools

Bridge Avenue Partners uses its BridgePoint^SM diagnostic an Organization Design & Development diagnostic that focuses on three questions:

What are the strengths and weaknesses of your current organization structure?
How well does the work force understand and buy into your strategy?
What are the barriers to getting your work force to "live" the strategy?

We combine the results of the diagnostic with our understanding of your strategy and our insights into the nuances of architecting organizations to help create the right structure for achieving your goals and objectives.

Architecting the Organization

Bridge Avenue Partners views our role in this arena as that of Organization Architect. Our Partners and Affiliates take a "hands on" approach to working with your executive team and work force to design an organization focused on creating and preserving value.

We architect:

Structures that are aligned with and enable your strategy
Roles that maximize the performance of your work force
Methods that help change the behavior of your people
Management processes, such as evaluation and feedback, that enhance human performance