Organizational effectiveness

Organizational effectiveness is a direct result from proper organizational design. It requires leaders to set well-defined goals as well as to outline possibilities to achieve these. This, in turn, provides a framework for managers to establish clear processes aiming at reaching the set business objectives. Finally, it is essential to have employees who are engaged and dedicated to performing in their best possible manner focusing on the desired results. Summing this up, all people in an organization – no matter whether leaders, managers, or employees – need to use their skills and capabilities to the best extent possible to achieve organizational effectiveness.

The rapidly changing environment in which organizations are operating is to a great extent caused by the fast development of technology. It can, therefore, be said that technology has contributed in large part to the rising importance of organizational design and organizational effectiveness. Consequently, it is only logical to turn back to technology to overcome these fairly new challenges.

Using the right tools can help you gain a quick overview not only of the organizational structure but also of relevant HR data and key metrics, for instance, through data visualization. As humans tend to be visual beings, especially larger amounts of data can more easily be understood when they are pictured in one way or another. Besides visualizing a classical org chart, this can also be achieved in the form of a dashboard or in a grid analysis. Making use of software can help detect potential issues preventing the organization from achieving its goals as well as derive recommended actions to solve these. While, by now, it should be clear that the ideal approach to organizational design and, thus, org effectiveness looks different for every company, there are some aspects that can be used as a starting point.

Take a look, for instance, at the number of employees in each hierarchy level. Usually, the lower the level, the more employees. If that is not true for your company, analyze why that is, and if changes need to be made to fix this. It may be that one of the hierarchy levels is redundant.

Now this may all seem somewhat tedious, but it does not have to be. With its broad feature set, Ingentis org.manager facilitates the achievement of organizational effectiveness. By allowing for data visualizations in almost any form, our software provides an easy but also holistic overview of all kinds of information. In doing so, you can freely choose the metrics on which you want or need to place your focus to make informed business decisions. Visualization rules can be added to further help identify specific areas that address ways of enhancing organizational effectiveness. The situations described in the previous paragraph are just some examples that can be addressed with Ingentis org.manager.

Additionally, its feature for workforce modeling comes in particularly handy in the context of organizational design and organizational effectiveness. Starting from the current state of the corporate structure, various what-if scenarios can be created. Thereby, key metrics affected by potential changes are updated in real-time allowing for an immediate evaluation of their consequences. As a consequence, Ingentis org.manager enables you to more easily make decisions that result in desired outcomes and therefore, support you on your way to achieve and maintain organizational effectiveness.