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Organizational Design

A good organizational design has a powerful impact on shaping people's attitudes, behavior, and performance on the job. If you don't design your organization, it might "just happen by itself" …in undesirable ways.

The planning and alignment of work, structures, coordination and measurement processes, to support strategic goals will help determine how efficiently and effectively your organization operates. This management process is called Organizational Design. Whether your organization is just getting started, facing significant diversification or renewal, there are many choices to make.CentrePoint's consultants are available to help you assess your situation and design the organization that best supports your strategic priorities.

Mergers

The ultimate alliance is a merger, which is much like a marriage of two organizations where they blend together to become one entity. Mergers are perplexing, confusing, frustrating and downright frightening to some organizations. Economic conditions are driving the sector toward a 'shake-out' and consolidation. Foundations, which fund much of the research and development in the non-profit sector, are funding mergers and other forms of strategic restructuring.

However, inattention to the merging of mission, values and the many other human issues can lead to failure. At one point in the private sector, mergers were failing at the rate of 70%.

With careful attention to diligent assessment of the merging organizations' cultures and human elements in addition to the traditional financial and legal reviews, the success rate continues to improve. CentrePoint's consultants have valuable experience to share with their clients along with methodologies to help you streamline the integration and restructuring process.

Strategic Alliances

Powerful forces are driving the formation of strategic alliances between non-profit organizations. The effort to deliver services to the community in which we live is becoming more complex. The competition for limited resources--people, money, time, equipment and information is fierce. Strategic Alliances- inter-organization collaborations- are a logical and timely response to intense and rapid change in social, political, economic activity as well as technology. If collaboration is not already a "core competence" in your organization, it's time to get busy. In developing new strategic alliances, leaders in the voluntary sector likely need to take a broader view of desired results than they have in traditional partnerships, focusing on a wide range of economic and strategic outcomes. The communication challenges loom large. CentrePoint Non-profit Management can help you address the important questions that enable you to effectively assess, design, launch and manage a strategic alliance to achieve value for all parties involved.

If you are interested in any of our consulting services and want to learn more, call us at (403) 517-8600 or contact us online to discuss how we can work together. We would be pleased to custom design a solution for you.