Organization Design

With our support, organizations can:

• Integrate teams after a merger or acquisition – When two organizations unite, leadership is expected to align teams, eliminate overlaps, and deliver promised benefits. We help restructure roles, decision rights, and reporting lines to create a single, high-performing organization
• Enable growth in a fast-scaling business – Companies in rapid growth phases must make strategic choices to sustain momentum. As headcount and complexity grow, organizations must enable revenue growth without a 1:1 increase in costs. We help refine operating models to build flexibility and support the next stage of growth
• Reshape a business to improve efficiency – Established organizations seeking to create value often need to streamline operations, reduce headcount, and refocus resources. Our methodology helps optimize spans of control, remove layers, and reallocate effort to high-value activities.
• Align your organization to support a new or refreshed strategy – As your strategy evolves, it is critical that your organization is well-aligned to deliver on it. Our approach will help you make the right investments and trade-offs to achieve your strategic objectives.

• Diagnose the root causes with data to uncover inefficiencies, misaligned roles, and performance gaps, ensuring recommendations are grounded in evidence
• Define clear design principles in collaboration with leadership, tailoring proven frameworks and methodologies to your organization’s unique context, strategy, and objectives
• Develop design options in collaboration with leadership, ensuring each option aligns with strategic objectives, quantifies impact and addresses pain points like margin pressure or rising complexity
• Translate design into a practical roadmap with defined roles, accountabilities, performance targets, and a clear implementation timeline
• Drive change and support execution by working alongside client teams to coordinate go-live activities, manage day-to-day implementation details, and track benefits to deliver lasting results

• Burnie Group brings extensive experience in optimizing and designing org structures across corporate functions, central services, and field operations within financial services, retail and distribution, technology, and healthcare industries
• We apply proven org design frameworks including structure design, spans & layers, and decision rights, while leveraging deep expertise in benchmarking and cost analysis to tailor solutions to each client’s unique context and challenges
• We deliver and track growth and cost benefits from design changes throughout the engagement, ensuring new structures and operating models deliver tangible, sustained results
• We provide objective, data-driven insights to overcome internal bias, politics, and blind spots – grounding recommendations in comparative analysis and robust modeling to guide fact-based decisions
• We work top-down to drive effective communication, alignment, and stakeholder buy-in to reduce resistance and equip leaders and internal teams with the tools required to sustain improvements
• We support rollout and implementation by coordinating changes across systems and processes, tracking adoption, and supporting HRIS integration, recruitment updates, role transitions etc.