Most executives intuitively understand what academic research has repeatedly confirmed: organizational factors are powerful drivers of strong performance. Winning companies must transform themselves on a regular basis in order to achieve and maintain their position at the top.

The Organization Practice assists clients in the financial services industry in making the necessary changes to achieve and sustain success. We are convinced that organizational factors are significant drivers of strong, long-term business performance. We assist financial services firms in a variety of critical areas, including:

Leadership

We work with clients to help them improve their leadership skills in a short period of time. Throughout the leadership journey, we foster alignment and catalyze leadership teams to adopt a dynamic and impact-focused mindset.

Performance transformation

Transformation is a fundamental change that penetrates deeply into the heart and mind of an institution and results in significantly improved business performance and health. We assist financial institutions in making sustainable shifts in ambition, collective self-beliefs, behaviours, culture, capabilities, systems, and processes to drive change in short- and long-term performance.

Organizational design

Recognizing that changing an organization’s structure is highly disruptive, we only work with clients on design change if the benefits are significant. We start by assessing the potential value of a redesign, then zero in on the elements that will most effectively drive performance and health. Defining an organizational archetype, designing a formal management structure and optimal spans of control, maximizing the value of the corporate centre and cross-business functions, developing performance-management systems, determining the appropriate level of outsourcing, developing an internal knowledge marketplace, and galvanizing social networks are examples of these.

Merger management and integration

We assist clients in establishing a postmerger combined company with greater performance and momentum than either of the premerger companies.