Organization may experience of things getting in a way to achieve its goals due to:
- Lack of alignment between strategy and organizational design
- Proliferation of new products, services, or variations of thereof
- Outdated processes
- Harmful managerial practices
To reduce the complexity, the organization should continuously:
- Assess the alignment between the strategy and organizational design. Organization’s resources & capabilities, processes, structure & systems, and culture must be aligned to its strategy.
- Conduct offering portfolio review and decide what to keep and what to let go
- Bring stakeholders of different levels, review, and improve or redesign processes
- Hold reflection sessions, solve cross-functional issues through work out sessions, improve meeting efficiency (Effective meetings depend on preparation, structure, and follow up), simplify paths of daily reporting