Organization Design
Better Design. Better Organization.
At Better Practice, we don’t just design org charts. We bring your strategy to life.
Organization Design is how to align people, processes, and purpose — so your strategy isn’t just a vision, but a working system. Whether you’re integrating teams, shifting markets, or scaling impact, we help you rewire the organization to move faster, smarter, and better together.
This isn’t about rearranging boxes. It’s about making your structure meaningful — and making change that makes sense.
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Our process in practice
- Discovery: Internal + external data, stakeholder insights, and enterprise process mapping
- Design Requirements: Co-created criteria grounded in your strategic direction
- Design Sprints: Iterative modeling across strategic, operational, and detail levels
- Feasibility Testing: Pressure-testing options for clarity, capability, and coherence
- Transition Planning: Practical support for rollout, adoption, and sustained alignment
Each step builds momentum. Each deliverable is co-owned. And we keep one question at the center:
What does this organization need to do brilliantly — and how can we design for that?
A whole-system approach
Our design process moves across three nested levels — each building on the last to create a complete, practical, and human-centered operating model.
🔹 Strategic Design
Where the architecture comes together
We define the major organizational units — their purpose, scope, capabilities, and how work flows between them. We explore grouping options (function, product, geography, customer, or process) and model lateral coordination across boundaries. This creates the structural backbone of your future-state organization.
🔹 Operational Design
Where strategy gets traction
We zoom in to define how each strategic unit operates. This includes internal structure, job and role design, staffing, and core process integration. It’s the connective tissue between big-picture design and everyday execution.
🔹 Detail Design
Where teams come to life
At this level, we bring the design down to earth — refining team structures, group norms, key interdependencies, and the rituals that drive collaboration and accountability. It’s where culture and behavior meet the system.
Why it works
Because structure is not just about control. It’s about clarity.
We blend systems thinking, organization theory, and your lived reality to craft designs that are both elegant and executable. And we bring teams into the process early, because buy-in is built through collaboration — not handed down as a finished plan.
We also design for disruption — creating adaptive systems that can flex as your strategy evolves. That’s why our clients don’t just end up with a new structure. They end up with a smarter way of working.
Typical outcomes
- Strategic and operational structure models
- Clear role and decision-making maps
- Defined lateral processes and linkages
- Transition playbooks for implementation
- Team-level clarity for faster onboarding and better collaboration