Scaling With Agility, and Structuring With Clarity
In a company with a strong and growing order book, organisational design should prioritise execution efficiency. Planning and procurement functions are best centralised to leverage scale and standardisation, while execution should remain decentralised to retain speed, ownership, and responsiveness. The organisation should avoid unnecessary centralisation of execution through complex mergers of sister units, as this often leads to slower decision-making and diluted accountability. Acquisitions or integrations should be pursued only when they directly enhance execution capability and accelerate delivery. Where integration is necessary, smaller units should strive to retain their identity and agility while remaining open to adopting improved systems and processes from larger units. At the same time, larger units must avoid the assumption that scale alone equates to superiority, and should remain receptive to learning agility and efficiency from smaller units. Successful integr...