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Organisational Design

Aligning your organisational structure and processes with your strategy is essential. We help organisations design structures, roles, decision-making pathways, and governance systems that support clear priorities, effective delivery, and long-term performance.

Organisational design is more than a structural chart. It is the practical framework that determines how work gets done, how decisions are made, how teams interact, and how resources are allocated. A well-designed organisation supports focus, accountability, and collaboration. A poorly designed one creates confusion, inconsistency, duplicated effort, and slow decision making.

At LSI, we help organisations create operating structures that are aligned with their goals and shaped around the needs of their environment. We tailor our approach to each client, whether the challenge involves a full organisational redesign or changes to a single function, business unit, or workflow. Our work focuses on clarity, practicality, and sustainability.

Why Organisational Design Matters

Organisational design shapes the everyday experience of staff and customers. It influences performance more than almost any other factor. When structures, roles, and processes are aligned with strategy, organisations can:

  • Allocate resources effectively
  • Improve speed and quality of decision making
  • Eliminate bottlenecks and role confusion
  • Strengthen accountability and ownership
  • Support efficient workflows across teams
  • Create clearer expectations for staff
  • Respond more effectively to change and uncertainty

Misalignment between strategy and structure is one of the most common causes of operational underperformance. Even strong strategies fail when the organisation is not designed to deliver them. A well-designed organisation ensures that objectives are supported by the right capabilities, processes, information flows, and governance.

Our Approach

We help organisations design structures, roles, and governance systems that support clear decision making and effective delivery using LSI’s proprietary process:

Diagnose | Design | Deliver – A structured model that connects strategy to execution.

This ensures organisational changes are grounded in evidence, aligned with strategic goals, and implemented in a way that supports long-term stability. When delivering our organisational design services this translates to the following:

1.

Diagnose

We assess how your organisation is structured today, reviewing roles, reporting lines, spans of control, decision points, workflow, and overall alignment to strategy. This helps us understand where duplication, unclear accountability, gaps in capacity, or structural constraints are affecting performance.

2.

Design

We work with your leaders to shape a structure that supports your goals and ways of working. This may include redefining roles, adjusting team configurations, clarifying governance, and designing supporting processes. The aim is to create an operating model where responsibilities are clear, and work moves through the organisation efficiently.

3.

Deliver

We support implementation by helping teams understand changes, adopt new responsibilities, and settle into revised structures. This includes transition planning, preparing leaders, updating documentation, and ensuring new routines are embedded so the organisation can operate confidently.

How We Can Help

Strategic Alignment

A well-designed organisation aligns structure, capability, and processes with strategic objectives. This ensures that teams focus on the work that matters most, resources are used effectively, and decision-making supports your goals.

Enhanced Efficiency

By clarifying roles and strengthening workflows, organisational design reduces unnecessary complexity. This supports faster decision making, lower cost, and a more agile response to external change.

Improved Communication

Clear reporting lines reduce confusion and strengthen coordination across teams. When people know who is responsible for what, communication becomes more direct, effective, and timely.

Improved Employee Satisfaction and Retention

When employees understand their roles, see how their work contributes to organisational goals, and feel supported by effective processes, satisfaction increases. This often leads to improved retention and a more engaged workforce.

Risk Management

Strong organisational design reduces operational and strategic risk. Clear accountability, well-defined workflows, and strong governance processes help identify vulnerabilities early and reduce the likelihood of issues progressing unnoticed.

Why Work With LSI

LSI has extensive experience supporting organisations to redesign structures, roles, and operating models so they can deliver strategy with confidence. Our work balances analysis with practicality. We understand that structure only works when people can see how it supports their responsibilities and when processes are designed to be used easily in day-to-day work.
Our clients value our ability to simplify complexity, provide clear guidance, and design solutions that work across real operational environments. We partner closely with leaders and teams to ensure that structures are sustainable, embed good practice, and support long-term organisational performance.
If your organisation is preparing for change, repositioning for growth, or seeking to improve alignment between strategy and operations, we can help you design a structure that supports clarity, performance, and success.

Case Studies

Proven success: Real-world results from our clients

Redesign of Resource Consents Operating Model

The client approached LSI to address significant challenges within their resource consenting process. Developers in the region expressed frustration with the lengthy and costly process of obtaining consents, as well as inconsistency in advice.

Customer Service and Processing Turnaround

Significant growth within the district resulted in an increase in resource consent applications and associated activities.

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