Organisational development
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The organisation and the people working in it are the supportive pillars of the company. Many individual factors are connected within the organisation and these are aligned with the optimum realisation of the planned targeted.
Organisation as such is not an end in itself, but is instead an instrument of company planning and management.
Within the scope of organisation, oezpa works on the fields of new direction, diagnostics, reorganisation, integration (mergers), quality improvement and increased efficiency. In these fields, we advise you on methods, procedures and implementation.

Organisational diagnostics
We use our methods and instruments to support you in determining the status of your organisation over a short period of time. In order to do so, we utilise interviews, questionnaires and workshops. We present the results in the form of a feedback instrument, e.g. an "analysis mirror" from which it is possible to derive the status of your organisation, the action and problem fields and ideas for improvement.
We are happy to work with you to formulate the appropriate methods.

Learning organisation
We assist your organisation and the organisational culture to develop in the direction of a learning organisation.
For us, a learning organisation is distinguished by its personnel and management reflecting constantly and mutually on their organisation, their self-perception, their actions and the results these achieve. This leads to the development of ideas and approaches for improvement which are executed in the structures, processes, methods and measures.
The aim of a learning organisation is constant organisational development. This allows the company to expand on its skills constantly, to configure its own future constructively and to change in accordance with market conditions.

Change management
The constant improvement of the organisation is more effective than the majority of speculative reorganisation projects. oezpa supports you in the preparation, planning, conception and implementation of organisational change processes. In this respect we utilise our many years of experience as responsible managers and organisational consultants, as well as the wealth of change management processes successfully supported by ourselves in the past.
We accompany the change and development of your organisation in five phases:
- Organisational analysis,
- Designing new structures,
- Planning and organisation,
- Implementing the new structures and
- Consolidation.
During the change process, we employ a mix of traditional organisational activities and organisational development measures, tools and specialist knowledge. We align this with customer-specific interests and requirements. We pay particular attention to involving the respective managers and personnel at an early stage. We generate dialogue with representatives of operational interests. We support individuals, teams and the entire company, thus guaranteeing successful facilitation of the change results.
Typical questions in change management:
- How can we align our organisation with the new challenges of the market?
- How can we introduce more market and customer orientation to the organisational structures of our company?
- How can we create a structure with greater autonomy from independent units?
- How is it possible to formulate and achieve a team-orientated structure in the company?
- How can we implement our new, strategic organisational concept as smoothly as possible?
- How do we prevent demotivation during the change process?
- How do we increase identification with the project results?
- How do we adjust tasks and functions within the company to fit with our market and customer demands?
- How can we prevent our project from fizzling out?

Revitalisation
oezpa supports you in revitalising the creative methods within your organisation, and in recognising and releasing new energies.
We support you in realigning and professionalising your organisation in line with your organisational targets and strategies.
Within the scope an organisational revitalisation project, we support you in ensuring the appropriate involvement of your personnel, enabling them to bring their ideas to the table.

Reorganisation
Within the framework of your reorganisation project, we support you in changing your company organisation and in particular its structural organisation.
In contrast, the focus of business process reengineering lies on the reconfiguration of process organisation.
Structural and process organisation are closely linked with one another and must be mutually considered during this activity.
Typical occasions necessitating reorganisation include: After mergers, company acquisitions, restructuring, partial closures, outsourcing, the introduction of a new management organisation, streamlining organisations ("Lean Organisation").
During reorganisation processes, we work with you on the analysis of tasks, functions, processes, rolls, responsibilities and the decision-making skills of the individual organisational units and positions, and redefine these.
Reorganisation projects are organisational development projects (OD projects). In contrast to long-term OD processes, reorganisation usually has a short-term orientation.

Mergers
Mergers are the most difficult processes facing management and consultants. Conventional knowledge of change management and classic organisational consultancy are insufficient tools with which to bring two different companies or parts of two companies together without encountering problems.
Despite comprehensive experience with integration processes, it is generally known that well over half of all mergers remain destined for failure. However, mergers are still the strategic approach for many companies in the coming years.
Since 1992, oezpa GmbH has developed specialist skills in the field of mergers, with experience of over 20 large-scale merger and integration projects. oezpa's intercultural background helps it to provide very balanced consultancy and to support integration processes with the maximum degree of sensitivity.

Increased efficiency
Increased productivity is an unavoidable component if a company is to sustain value enhancement.
Sustained value enhancement requires not only improving results (i.e.: quality, sales, profits, etc.) but also reducing inputs (resources, costs, throughput times, loss-makers, etc.).
We support you with your increased efficiency projects and measures by applying our specialist increased efficiency methods, experience and execution skills.
A particular oezpa method is the globally proven "Ratio Open Space Conference", refined by ourselves for enhanced effectiveness. We employ special methods in this large group event, which runs for three days, to uncover increased efficiency potentials and generate ideas in the respective organisation.

Restructuring
The aim of restructuring processes is to return to a position of constant profit and growth.
Based on our many years of experience in company restructuring, reorganisation and downsizing processes, we offer the following consultancy and implementation services:
- Support in the creation and implementation of a detailed restructuring plan.
- Creation of immediate measures.
- Optimisation of the cost structure, the structures, processes, product developments, distribution channels and service functions.
- Outsourcing of services, tasks and costs pertaining to non-core business.
- Assuring employee motivation.
- Professionalisation of the new organisation.
Consultancy to family companies
Family companies are confronted with the same challenges as all other companies. However, in addition to these challenges, family companies are also confronted with the target conflicts that arise from the connection between the family and the company. This connection and the interdependencies in existence here do however bring with them extensive opportunities, which are worthy of exploitation.
- It is necessary to respond to the following questions and challenges in this context:
- How strong and stable is your company today?
- How will the environment and the market change in the coming years?
- What opportunities, risks and challenges does this development bring with it?
- What challenges is the proprietary family facing?
- How should your company look in three, five and ten years?
- Who will manage the company in the future?
- How is it possible to successfully configure the changeover to a successor?
- What do you need to do today, in order to achieve your strategies in the future?
- How can you prepare your personnel for the change?
- How can new life be injected into rolls after the change?