Transformation
Organizational Design
+ Workforce Planning
Form follows function. An old adage. Yet, during performance improvement and restructuring programs, senior executives often make critical decisions about organizational structure, personnel competencies, and headcount requirements without a deep understanding of the functional requirements these elements must satisfy. That misalignment could be due to arbitrary budget targets, vague notions of how to balance efficiency with effectiveness, or a cookie-cutter benchmarking-based approach to structure and headcount.
Tower Strategy’s Organizational Design + Workforce Planning services bridge this critical gap. Since 2008, we've partnered with senior executives across the Private and Public Sectors to align organizational structure and human capital with overarching strategy and their specific business requirements. Through that alignment, we enable the C-suite and functional leaders to make data-driven decisions about reorienting org charts, restructuring roles and responsibilities, optimizing FTE levels, and strategically migrating talent into high-impact roles — all in service of their broader performance improvement goals.
Transformation
Because transformation comes with profound strategic change, translating intent to action requires a fundamental reevaluation and restructuring of how organizations deploy their human capital. This goes beyond the easy work of merely adjusting headcounts or tweaking job descriptions. It requires a comprehensive reimagining of how talent is organized, developed, and leveraged to pursue new markets, satisfy evolving stakeholder needs, and integrate existing capabilities with new, market-facing competencies.
These changes aren't limited to what roles exist within the organization. Transformation must account for roles that the organization doesn’t currently possess, and which don’t necessarily fit neatly into the existing organizational structure (e.g., integrating new engineering talent focused on AI). The need further extends to how the organization structures its workforce, balances workloads, aligns competencies with strategic objectives, and cultivates the agility needed to adapt in a rapidly changing landscape. Our Organizational Design + Workforce Planning services focus on both the structural and human elements of this change, ensuring our clients possess the ability to effectively reorganize and redeploy their workforce to drive and sustain their transformation.
We believe in employee-led organizational restructuring
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The level of organizational realignment required in transformations introduces complexity and potential disruption. Our Organizational Design + Workforce Planning services, powered by fu.sion ACCELERATOR’s Load Balancer module, provide a controlled methodology to navigate this complexity, identifying, assessing, and planning the structural and workforce adaptations needed.
Through close collaboration with our clients, we use agreed-upon transformation outcomes to fine-tune the framework and underlying algorithms that fuel fu.sion ACCELERATOR’s Load Balancer. As we work with clients to map their functional requirements to the competencies needed to deliver on those outcomes, this fine-tuning allows for context-specific assessments of current organizational structure, workforce deployment, and workload distribution. That understanding, combined with our integrated time study and workload modeling capability, enables us to precisely identify imbalances in resource allocation and estimate future headcount requirements by competency and role.
This detailed analysis is especially critical in transformation initiatives, as the scope of organizational and workforce changes required often far exceeds what can be implemented at once. We focus on restructuring and building core functions first, layering in the organizational changes and workforce development needed to enable differentiation over the medium- and long-term.
As with our Strategic Planning and Capabilities Mapping services, the Organizational Design + Workforce Planning leverages fu.sion AI’s generative model as both a thought partner and an advisor to our teams and clients. Nourished with best practices from our transformation projects with leading organizations and bolstered by access to an extensive external knowledge base of organizational design and workforce planning best practices, fu.sion AI helps clients pressure-test their organizational restructuring choices. It provides clarity on optimal organizational structures, required competencies, efficient resource allocation, and what it will take to successfully develop and deploy the workforce needed.
The result: A comprehensive organizational transformation roadmap that maximizes the productivity of an organization's existing talent while charting a bold course to develop new competencies and prepare for the future. This roadmap doesn't just outline what needs to change — it provides a detailed blueprint for how to restructure the organization and reallocate workforce to make that change happen, ensuring sustainable growth and market leadership in an evolving landscape.
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