Strategy-Led Organization Design
A Two-Day Workshop: January 16-17, 2008
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Workshop Presenters:
Gregory Kesler and Tom Falkowski, Competitive Human Resources Strategies, LLC
J. Brady Lum, The Coca-Cola Company
Summary Description
The workshop is a very practical and road-tested, twoday program that features frameworks and tools for
business people who need to help solve organizationdesign issues in their companies.
These tools and
practices have been used at The Coca-Cola Company,
Nike, Merck, McKesson and many other companies
over the past ten years.
The two-day workshop is targeted to line managers and
OD/HR professionals with ten or more years of
experience.
The ideal participants will have responsibility for current
organization design issues in their organizations that
can be addressed during the workshop, as participants
work through these topical areas (detailed on the next
page):
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Fundamentals of Organization Design
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Setting Design Criteria Based on Strategic
Growth Choices
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Conducting Organization Assessments
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Innovative
Design
Solutions
Trends
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The Five-Step Design Process
–
Current
Participants will apply
the tools to issues
inside their own
companies – in order
to:
ƒ Re-align business units
and functions around
consumer or market
segments to drive
growth plans
ƒ Balance decision power
between local and
global operating units
ƒ Build plans to leverage
resources, gain more
common business
process or reduce
structural costs
ƒ Define higher-value
roles for corporate
functions and shape
organization around
those roles
ƒ Clarify the operating
governance model for
the business
ƒ Execute merger or
acquisition integration
Content Areas – Up Close
Fundamentals of Organization Design
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Finding the right solution - “Skeletal” vs.
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End-to-end and center-led function design
“nervous-system” design elements
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Service center and other consolidation
New approaches to managing the matrix
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effectively
Defining organization capabilities to
guide design
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models to drive scale and efficiency
Balancing the conflicting forces of
“integration and differentiation”
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Innovative Design Solutions (cont’d)
Acquisition integration opportunities
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Strategic vs. “bottoms-up” design models
Five-Step Design Process
Setting Design Criteria Based on
1) Defining the Business Case for Change
Strategic Growth Choices – The Six-
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Translating strategy into structure
Benefits Model
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How to set design objectives and
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Management attention
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Specialization
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Coordination
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Basic grouping options
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Control and accountability
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Evaluating
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Learning and motivation
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Leverage and scale
principles
2) Strategic Grouping
design
concepts
for
your
business
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Pros and cons of matrix structures
3) Organization Development
Conducting Organization
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Building the levels and spans-of-control
Assessments – Application
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Defining a corporate operating
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Applying design principles
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Using interviews and survey methods
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Interpreting the data
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Using design teams effectively
governance model
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Business process, networks and councils
4) Role Definition
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Designing jobs, decision rights and role
clarity
Innovative Design Solutions
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Global category structures – and other
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Resource re-purposing
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When to re-staff new organization designs
and how to do it
customer-focused designs
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Front-end / back-end integration
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Global R&D and supply-chain networks
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(cont’d)
5) Implementing New Designs
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Developing an implementation plan
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Change-management tools
Business and HR leaders will find these practices useful if they are initiating design work – or
are well into implementing new organization models.
Workshop Location
West Palm Beach Marriott
1001 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach, Florida
A block of rooms is being held for participants at a special rate of $209 per night
for the nights of January 15 and 16. Please contact the hotel directly to make
your reservation and indicate you are with the CHRS group at 1-561-8331234.
Schedule
The workshop will commence at 8:30 am and will end at 5:00 each day of the
program.
Two-Day Workshop Fee
$1,850 per participant. Companies will be invoiced for 50% of the total fees upon
enrollment (non-refundable), and the remaining 50% will be invoiced 30 days prior
to the workshop.
Attire
Casual attire.
Instructor Bios
Gregory Kesler is managing partner of Competitive Human Resources Strategies LLC,
a firm specializing in executive-talent management, organization design and alternative
reward systems.
Mr. Kesler has worked with more than 40 major corporations around the world over the
past 20 years, designing innovative organization structures and implementing executive
succession, assessment and development practices. His organization design work has
included globalization of product categories and other growth-focused initiatives. Mr.
Kesler has published numerous articles on executive development and human
resources management, and is editor of the talent division of The HR Planning Society
Journal.
Before beginning his consulting career, Mr. Kesler held positions in three Fortune 200
companies, representing such diverse industries as office systems, capital equipment
and pharmaceutical and consumer products. His clients include The Coca-Cola
Company, Nike, Merck, Solvay, Levi-Straus, McKesson, Pfizer and many others.
Tom Falkowski is a partner in CHRS. He has counseled a broad spectrum of
organizations in numerous industries across five continents. His areas of focus include
business strategy, process improvement, organizational change, employee development
and technology-enabled training. He has helped organizations to use learning
technologies to leverage intellectual capital in innovative ways.
Tom was Vice-President of Learning Strategy for Click2Learn and also held several key
positions at Development Dimensions International (DDI), where he was Vice President
of Consulting for International Operations. He was also Vice President of Learning and
Performance Technologies for the global human resources consulting company.
Tom has a Masters degree in Information Resource Management from the Air Force
Institute of Technology and a Bachelors degree in Finance from Boston College. His
clients include Nike, The Coca-Cola Co., Microsoft, Parke-Davis Australia, Reynolds
Metals, and Lubrizol.
J. Brady Lum is vice president, strategic planning and integration for the Coca-Cola Co.
Brady has held senior operating roles in the company including region vice president,
operations for North America. He has acted as the project lead for extensive reorganization initiatives worldwide for the company, playing a key role in implementing
the company’s new global growth strategies.
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