Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Three Ways Organizational Architecture Can Alter the Mainstream

By Victor Pinedo, Jr.


Today's global community is driven by business organizations. Just a quick look at the impact of the global financial crises, which could have been avoided, and there's no doubt organizations play a key role in impacting individuals' and communities' well-being.

When they're healthy, organizations are structured to withstand challenges and provide solutions. Organized for optimal positive impact, they can leverage this structure to become a vital key to uplifting society even at a global level.

For this to work out, and for maximum benefits to humanity, organizational architecture has to be in place that's aligned with the goals of global betterment. To be more exact, organizational architecture can change the mainstream by:

* Transforming Ethics

* Shielding the global economy

* Improving sustainability

Remodeling Morals

The primary resources of any organization are the people. If an organization's architecture is designed to benefit the leaders and stakeholders, they will mature in their roles in the organization and set a powerful, practical example for those they influence. The transformation will be visible as the organization accepts and honors its moral responsibilities towards other organizations, the environment and most specifically to the community it belongs to.

Protecting the Global Economy

When stakeholders turn out to be fully committed to personal maturity and acting in alignment with integrity, organizations blossom and contribute to their local communities directly and indirectly. Social and economic integrity offers a conscience to the organization, stopping the onslaught of greed and the major disgraces that follow it.

Improving Sustainability

As an organization's principles are developed in a helpful fashion, its efficiency and profitability spill over, ultimately fulfilling the stakeholders and workers at the same time. When the organization is a source of triumph, contribution, and happiness, the workers turn out to be more motivated to perform more efficiently, rising efficiency and boosting client satisfaction. The mutual effect of enhancement in individual organizations' sustainability also impacts the global economy.

When companies are structured in a way that promotes health, maturity, and growth in its leaders and workers, they become better, stronger, and more profitable. Aiming for this sort of organizational architecture ultimately aids the global economy by preventing bankruptcies and stock-market meltdowns.

Organizational architecture designed with true productivity, profitability, and sustainability as its desired outcome features an inherent respect for individuals, other organization, and the environment. This sort of organizational reinvention doesn't require profit-slashing, martyr-like measures. Quite the opposite - a system of gentle renewal throughout the organization, from a hierarchical elitist structure to one that's organic and mature has been proven to benefit everyone involved on many levels.




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