Organization

Recent Developments

Globalization and the ever more dynamic competitive world it creates, as well as the considerable upheavals in the banking industry, have put the question of organization back on the map as a vital part of bank management functions. A flexible and determined organization is the driver of success and a source for new impulses for planning the long-term success of your banking house.

In the past, banks tended to concentrate strongly on adherence to regulatory requirements. This outlook has changed considerably. Cost reduction or sales boosting programmes have become established tools for improving a company’s competitive standing and have created new challenges for modern organizational structures.

Your organizational structure is a means of clarifying the allocation of responsibilities and decision-making paths. The structure has to suit the processes that take place within it and support and maintain optimum workflows. Any decision about organizational structures has to take seemingly contradictory objectives into account:

Flexible organizational structures are not able to reach the same level of efficiency of centrally managed organizations, since decisions are harder to implement without a broad consensus. The speed and efficiency of decision-making therefore relates directly to the choice of organizational structure. At the same time, flexible organizations promote entrepreneurship and innovation among the workforce.

Therefore, any sensible organizational development efforts need to analyse and take the corporate culture, the competitive environment and market development as well as the availability of the necessary managerial talent into consideration in the proposed organizational structure. Changing organizational structures is a critical undertaking, since it always has to include a painful process for the company. We make sure that communication is clear and effective across the organization, communicate the eventual benefits for all areas of your hierarchy and offer your staff a clear definition of their roles.

In the design of any organizational structure, the inevitable impact of such organization-specific trade-offs needs to be heeded in order to ensure that restructuring measures can be planned to counter any potential resurfacing of such pitfalls in the future.

Our Consultancy Services/Interests

Our holistic consultancy approach is a tried and tested solution for a sustainable efficiency-oriented restructuring of your organization. Maintaining the success of your business through effective change management is our prime competence. In our holistic approach, we combine strategy, organization, process optimization and HR competence from the first strategic design to the implementation and installation of your new organization.