Target Operating Model
Is your business set up to deliver your strategy?
When implementing a strategy, many organisations fall at the first hurdle. You've made the right strategic choices without creating the conditions for success.
We help leaders refine, refocus or rebuild their target operating model to accelerate their strategy - ensuring structures, capabilities and processes align to strategic ambitions. The right Target Operating Model can be the difference between a strategic step-change and a strategic stumble.
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SYMPTOMS OF A MIS-ALIGNED TARGET OPERATING MODEL
Many organisations fail to set themselves up for success by not creating the right conditions to deliver their strategic ambitions.
Slow to deliver on strategic initiatives
Inefficient use of business resources
Overly focused on day-to-day activities
BENEFITS THAT THE RIGHT TARGET OPERATING MODEL UNLOCKS
Accelerated Growth
By designing the organisation to fit the strategy, strategic priorities become the focus of day-to-day operations rather than bolt-on tasks, leading to fewer distractions and faster delivery.
Enhanced Efficiency
By identifying processes or structures that are non-optimal, barriers to strategic progress can be removed and the business can spend more of its resources on the things that truly matter.
Increased Agility
Allows a swifter response to market changes, customer demands, and emerging technologies and a greater focus on innovation vs. day-to-day administrative complexities.
Empowered Teams
Employees are empowered to make decisions within their scope leading to higher engagement & job satisfaction and teams are able to collaborate efficiently without unnecessary barriers.
THE COGNOSIS APPROACH TO TARGET OPERATING MODELS
Our tailored approach delivers the right target operating model for your strategy – ensuring your business is in the best shape to deliver on its ambitions.
Input
Strategic Position
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Internal strategic
position & plan -
External market
context & trends
Bespoke Targeted Benchmarks
- Benchmarks of 5-8 selected companies
- Insights from external functional experts
Themes
STRUCTURES &
ACCOUNTABILITIES
PEOPLE &
CAPABILITIES
PROCESSES &
GOVERNANCE
SYSTEMS &
INFRASTRUCTURE
Outputs
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Organisational blueprint
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Critical process map
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Functionality capability requirements
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TOM implementation roadmap
& action plan
DETERMINING THE TYPE AND SCOPE OF YOUR TARGET OPERATING MODEL PROJECT
Increasing Change
Project Type
Typical Scope
Comprehensive
Rebuild the model to suit significantly different requirements
Major changes to operating model, rebuilding the shape of the business with impacted to be expected in all areas. Likely to accompany major changes to strategy / transformation.
Standard
Refocus the existing model to enhance key capabilities or approaches
More significant changes to operating model, likely to see most elements impacted to some degree with key areas seeing marked change, often driving targeted changes in working approaches.
Light
Refine the existing model to suit evolving needs
More minor changes to operating model, which may see many elements remain the same with targeted changes to key areas. May involve reviewing where there are synergies across functions to control costs.
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Find out moreWHY WORK WITH COGNOSIS?
“For a family business like ours, the style and approach that Cognosis brought was extremely well suited.”
“We chose to work with Cognosis because they matched our ambition for growth.”
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