Leading Organization Design

The definitive field guide for organisation design practitioners—where decades of proven methodology meet the tools and insights needed to lead transformation in today's complex world.

The Organisation Design Practitioner: Building Operating Models That Deliver is the new book from two of the best-known thinkers in the field of organisation design, providing practitioners with a well-tested methodology and a fresh set of accompanying tools for navigating today’s business challenges.

Greg Kesler and Amy Kates are operating model authorities who have advanced Jay Galbraith's foundational theory connecting all design elements of an organisation to its strategy. This capstone to their careers brings to the topic the wisdom of more than 60 combined years of experience working with many of the best global companies in the world.

In this fifth book together, they speak directly to the organisation design practitioner with a clear and practical narrative, rooted in their consulting, writing, and teaching experience. Amy and Greg share the Five Milestone design process, used in hundreds of companies today, where they have trained more than 5,000 practitioners in the Kates Kesler methodology.

Readers will find:

• Guidance on how to create designs that are built to deliver the benefits of both scale and agility.
• Insights into becoming a trusted advisor at every step of the design process.
• Methods for integrating AI tools to accelerate and augment design work, while preserving human judgement.
• Ways to engage leadership teams that result in more effective activation of the new operating model.
• A roadmap to develop the skills and impact needed by today’s organisation design practitioner.

The book includes a robust appendix that delivers more than 75 frameworks and tools that the authors have found most useful in their work, whether at the enterprise business unit, geographic region, or function level. All of the tools will be available electronically to those who purchase the book, a valuable benefit for both the seasoned and the aspiring practitioner.

An essential resource for organisation design practitioners, organisation development professionals, and HR leaders, this new book equips both internal and external consultants with the human-centred strategies needed to transform organisations in an era of unprecedented complexity.