Turnaround
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.
Turnaround
In turnaround situations, ineffective organizational structure and workforce composition often represent a root cause behind the systematic failures that cause an organization to go into distress. Weaknesses in how human capital is organized and deployed, the competencies they possess, and the level of FTEs that exist (vs. workload), lead to muscle and sinew gaps that prevent organizations from fully executing against their core functional requirements. Weaknesses that even the most well-intentioned managers and staff cannot overcome.
Our Organizational Design + Workforce Planning services provide a rapid, incisive methodology to diagnose and rectify these structural gaps, identifying areas of bloat that must be cut to streamline operations and free budget for future growth. We also identify and define how to rapidly backfill missing competencies that prevent the organization from effectively delivering on the outcomes that stakeholders and customers demand.
We believe in employee-led organizational restructuring
fu.sion
Turnarounds require speed. Through intense, but rapid, collaboration with our clients, we lean into the urgency of turnarounds by fine-tuning the framework and algorithms that fuel fu.sion ACCELERATOR's Load Balancer to focus on delivering organizational maturity. As we work with clients to map their functional requirements against existing competencies, this fine-tuning allows for a brutally honest assessment of current organizational structure, workforce deployment, and workload distribution and, further, whether that model is effective in delivering on an organization’s functional requirements. Our integrated time study and workload modeling capability enables us to precisely identify where resources are being wasted and where critical skills are lacking, allowing for rapid reallocation of human capital to areas of greatest impact and pinpointing of the right-sizing opportunity.
This detailed analysis is crucial in turnaround initiatives, where every moment and resource counts. We focus on addressing the most glaring inefficiencies and capability gaps first, streamlining bloated departments while rapidly bolstering understaffed, critical functions. This approach allows for quick wins that can stem the immediate crisis and rebuild internal and stakeholder confidence while laying the groundwork for a leaner, more agile organization in the mid- to long-term.
In this high-pressure environment, fu.sion AI serves as both diagnostician and advisor to our teams and clients. Drawing from a wealth of turnaround best practices and an extensive knowledge base of organizational design principles, fu.sion AI helps clients see past emotional attachments and make hard, data-driven decisions about workforce restructuring. It provides clarity on where to cut, where to invest, and how to rapidly realign the organization to support the turnaround effort.
The result: A comprehensive organizational transformation roadmap that cuts through the fat while building critical muscle. This roadmap doesn't just outline what needs to change—it provides a detailed blueprint for swift, decisive action to restructure the organization and reallocate the workforce. By turning bloated departments into lean, high-performing teams and filling critical capability gaps, we enable our clients to quickly stabilize their operations and lay the foundation for future growth and market leadership.
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