Comments on: Organizing For Success: Design Does Matter https://6sigma.com/organizing-for-success-design-does-matter/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:04:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brion https://6sigma.com/organizing-for-success-design-does-matter/#comment-25922 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 03:47:39 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=20339#comment-25922 A lot of companies think reorganization is a solution, but often it never addresses the root cause of the problem. Many different organization structures will work, but the real importance is knowing who drives the priorities in the company. It should be the value stream manager, the one who sees across the value stream for each product/service. They should know what the customer needs, and where the improvements needs to be made.

Too often, the functional managers (Quality Manager, Industrial Engineering Manage, Procurement Manager, etc) set the priorities for their direct reports. They are also co-located near their direct manager, not with their product/service team, which is another reason why their priorities are misaligned.

From a lean perspective, aligning the work priorities with the value stream is the best organizational structure. Ideally that’s a direct line reporting structure, but a dotted line structure can work as well, as long as everyone is on the same page.

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