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301 -  The Agile IT Organization: Designing an IT Organization That Keeps Pace With Your Business
 Wednesday, November 07, 2007, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Speakers:
Dean Meyer
President
N. Dean Meyer and Associates, Inc.

Dean Meyer has dedicated his career to the systematic design of high-performance organizations. His methods incorporate insightful philosophy, action research and practical experience. Dean has explored the leadership and governance implications of both the business-within-a-business paradigm and the model of organizations as dynamic systems. In private practice for more than two decades, Dean's clients have included Fortune 50 corporations, privately held companies, the Department of Defense, state and local governments and nonprofit institutions. Industries have included health care, entertainment, insurance, retail, food service and industrial services. Dean earned a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.B.A. from Stanford.
Session Description:
A well-designed organizational structure dramatically improves performance by empowering staff as entrepreneurs, focusing them on professional excellence, and supporting dynamic cross-boundary teamwork. Unfortunately, in many organizations, structure has evolved over the years in haphazard ways. Confusing silo boundaries and disempowering job definitions put people in impossible jobs, create conflicts of interests, and even pit people against one another. The result: a loss of customer focus, innovation, teamwork, cost control, and quality. High performing companies require their IT organizations to be efficient, agile, responsive, adaptive and proactive, After nearly two decades of research and practical experience, a comprehensive science of structure has emerged. It identifies the basic building blocks -- the lines of business present in any organization -- and provides clear principles for assembling them into an effective organization chart. It also describes mechanisms for cross-boundary teamwork that gather just the right people on every project at just the right time. This session gives leaders a practical overview of the science of structure, and of a participative implementation process that engages a leadership team in designing a structure that works for them.