Introduction

In this book, we have developed a step-by-step approach to organizational design, focusing on analysis of an existing organization and identification of misfits among organizational design components. We have outlined a way to diagnose whether a firm has strategic organizational design misfits and considered what you might change to align the basic design components so as to fix misfits and meet organizational goals. In this chapter we address what to change and why. It is a summary of the design process with special attention to the question, what aspects of your organization should be changed? First, we will briefly restate the step-by-step approach and then we will examine the change process in more detail.