Comments on: Is organizational structure important?

By: Gordon Tredgold

Gordon Tredgold — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:00:30 +0000

Tarak, i do think organisational structure is important, when a football team takes the field, they need to know whether they will play defensive formation or attacking formation.
But often poor performance isn’t the result of poor formation, its more to do with poor players, poor training or poor motivation.

By: Tarak

Tarak — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:42:50 +0000

I don’t fully see this as black and white topic. Org changes are necessary, may be not so much in IT, but when you need to re-focus, re-direct the skills, capacity or authority, it is necessary to support that with org change. Done right!!! it will speed up execution and give clarity to people. Issue I see is that it is rarely done right, specially in IT where the consequences are not directly felt. I worked my first 8yrs in a company that went thought few major changes. Looking back, each of this was a necessity to refocus 100T+ employee base to the ever changing market and align to the company strategy. The difference I see is that it was done better, faster and with a clear purpose that was understandable at each effected level.

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By: Gordon Tredgold

Gordon Tredgold — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:47:49 +0000

In reply to Rajesh Haran.

In fact, it might make an imperfect situation worse.
Often the reasons for the re-org are not clear, and the planned benefits unclearer,
all this leads to confusion, and a lower confidence in the leadership.

By: Rajesh Haran

Rajesh Haran — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:18:42 +0000

I agree with your point “improving on the team rather than concentrating on the re-org. Often re-org will create more confusion.

By: Gordon Tredgold

Gordon Tredgold — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:00:00 +0000

In reply to mithun.

I think sometimes it’s done to recover made from the mess created by the previous change.
At one company i worked for i explained to a manager that I didn’t understand the organisational
change that we were going through. He said well just ignore it, there will be another change along
in 6 months so focus on understanding that.
Which just shows how numb the organisation was to repeated restructuring which didn’t seem to add any value.

By: mithun

mithun — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:14:02 +0000

Some times its done to cover up the mess …. good thought….

By: Gordon Tredgold

Gordon Tredgold — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:31:39 +0000

In reply to Daniel Sánchez Reina. Daniel, i agree with that, but in all of the changes i have participated in there has been no company change, it has just been IT changing under their on steam. I have to admit though i have made some organisational changes myself that was when two departments were merged into one, and we had to make some changes to create some synergies. But my preference is to always exhaust any improvements we can make in personnel ahead of any structure changes. Improving the skills of the team or improving the personnel will have a bigger impact that a fundamental organisational change.