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The Business-within-a-business Organization

leave the legacy of an organization that performs brilliantly, now and long after you've moved on

This website presents an organizational operating model pioneered by N. Dean Meyer, where the hierarchy houses a network of empowered internal entrepreneurs.

A business-within-a-business organization delivers:


  • Scalabilty
  • Agility
  • Stability as people, technologies, and methods evolve
  • Innovation everywhere
  • Acquisition/consolidation integration
  • Boundaries clarity
  • Cross-boundary teamwork
  • Specialization to optimize performance
  • Empowerment
  • Employee engagement

This organizational design resource library offers:

It can help you clarify and document your vision for your organization, and plan the systemic changes you'll make to create it.

Or if you're contemplating an organizational transformation, here's a step-by-step path forward....

Here's an overview, and map of the key concepts:

Overview of Vision and Transformation Processes
(and of this organizational design resource library)
[Click on any bubble for an executive summary.]

NEW:

Organizational Excellence Self-assessment for Executives
the ten most challenging hallmarks of a great organizational design


CAPSTONE BOOK:

How Organizations Should Work

A trans­for­ma­tion­al leader's hand­book, with:

  • A detailed vision (blueprint) of the end-state operating model -- to help you craft and communicate your own vision.

  • All the mechanics -- solid principles of design, and clear frameworks to help you design your organization in a fact-based manner.

  • Implementation processes -- participative processes that engage your leadership team in designing your organization.

  • A case study.

  • Use cases: innovation, digital business, scalability, global synergies, shared services, and acquisition integration.

  • A book summary (akin to Cliff's Notes®).

Abstracts: NDMA Organizational Design Topics

Case Studies: Organizational Transformation

Use Cases: Organizational Transformation

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