Designing Fit-for-Purpose Organisations : A Comprehensive Integrated Route Map

It is widely recognised that the way organisations are designed to deliver has a profound effect not only on their ability to execute their strategy successfully, but also on the rapid identification and realisation of factors that will affect their overall performance and continued success, such as:

• entrepreneurial opportunities;
• the creation of fulfilling, meaningful client and employee experiences;
• optimal resource deployment and utilisation;
• the healthiness of its culture and dynamics.

Organisations can indeed compete by design.

The purpose of Designing Fit-for-Purpose Organisations is to give readers insight into Organisational Design (OD) as a key executive leadership task: the Where, Why, Whereto, When, Who, What, and How of OD. The book comprehensively covers the practice of OD as critical organisational discipline. Designing Fit-for-Purpose Organisations will empower readers with the tools to architect fit-for-purpose organisational operating models for a hyper-turbulent, hyper-fluid and hyper-connected world.

Theo Veldsman, a Work Psychologist, is regarded as a thought-leaders in people management and the psychology of work. He has a proven ability to move seamlessly between theory and practice, and vice versa, having been an academic and consultant. Theo has gained extensive research and development and consulting experience over the past 35 years, including organisational (re)design. He has conducted over 50 OD assignments across private and public organisations at the executive and senior management levels at companies such as De Beers, Anglo American, Adcock Ingram, etc., as well as trained more than 200 OD consultants internationally.