Will your new plan let your company fly to the stars – or crash on take-off?

By LUCIA MABASAIf you fail to plan, you plan to fail the saying goes – and it’s the same with organisational design, developing and mapping structures, roles and processes, hierarchies and work flows to enhance your company’s goals.Not every plan you design will work, because there might be fatal flaws baked into its DNA. The success of organisational designs, like any other plan, depends on the real will of those who wanted it in the first place and it requires the true commitment of the person chosen to be the architect of the plan.It’s vital to start the process with the reason for doing it. Why are you engaging on this process and what do you hope to achieve? Setting this out up front allows everyone to be kept honest, whether it is the board that greenlit the process or the person who was given the task of drawing up the structure.The best plans are ones that have been drawn up with proper consultation of the people who will be required to implement them, this means that cut and p...