03 October, 2012

Pre-Conference Seminar

REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 8–9 AM

Designing Organizations for Success: Tool and Techniques for Leading Organization Design

SEMINAR 9 AM–5 PM

More and more business leaders are expressing a need to reinvent or redesign their business models as a way to leapfrog competition and sustain a competitive edge. While there are lots of examples of how to redefine a compelling marketplace position, truly successful business model transformation is about organization design—designing and aligning the choices and systems of the organization to drive strategy and make the company’s business model a reality. Just as important as aligning strategies, capabilities, and choices for marketplace success is getting the human side of those changes right—the people, the mindsets, and the culture. HR and business leaders must be able to engage in disciplined organization design. Just as important they must effectively lead their organizations all the way from design through implementation to living the change. Organizations who balance those two things effectively are most likely to reap the benefits of improved performance. This seminar will provide a proven set of tools to help leaders do that. Specifically, this session will:

• Share tools used in several Fortune 100 companies for aligning strategy, capabilities, and choices to achieve marketplace success
• Provide practical insights and techniques for how HR and business leaders can guide their organizations through the full process of re-designing and implementing organizational changes
• Share case studies of organizations that have achieved lasting business transformation using these tools and techniques to align strategies, capabilities and choices

Kreig Smith, Principal, AlignOrg Solutions
Reed Deshler, Principal, AlignOrg Solutions