About Us
Organizational Design, Inc (ODI) was founded by Dr. Stephen Clement in 1985,
to assist Corporate CEO’s (as well as their Executives) in enhancing profitability
and productivity within their respective organizations. Since its inception, ODI has transformed into a “world-class” consulting firm reaching clients around the globe.
A cornerstone of ODI’s approach is the systematic application of a comprehensive set of organizational design principles to an organization’s existing operational structure. The underlying premise of ODI is that organizations must be structured around the complexity of their work. Building an edge in today’s markets means a company must establish a requisite organizational structure (e.g., properly designed), define clear roles, assign competent people to those roles, implement lean systems and processes, establish a supportive work culture and develop 21st century leadership competencies.
ODI employs a detailed organizational assessment process which leads to the identification of non-value adding work, including dysfunctional work related processes, fundamental defects in an organization’s existing structure and counterproductive working relationships. Elimination of the aforementioned organizational inhibitors is central to the process of “freeing-up” existing organizational energy to concentrate on implementing core business activities.
The firm is currently completing a total readiness and restructuring of the Headquarters, Department of the Army. Several high level staff organizations have been totally redesigned into smaller, more efficient organizational elements. One staff section was re-organized from numerous stand-alone elements into a single large shared service activity reducing staff size from 2,400 personnel to approximately 450 , producing an annual savings of $70 million dollars. A second $12 billion dollar organization was similarly restructured into a smaller consolidated headquarters structure, producing annual savings of $140 million dollars.
A key aspect of ODI’s approach to organizational projects is to train local clients in the underlying theories and principle base, consequently, the client not only understands the concepts, but is also able to apply them to other projects as well.
