Organisational Development & Change Management

Transformation, HR and change

For your organisation to grow, your functions must be aligned – your people, processes and strategy. Organisational development can improve your business’ effectiveness by ensuring your cultural, structural and strategic realities are harmonised.

There are so many elements in any business that crave continuous development. You can apply a systematic approach to these through organisational development to continue efficiency and build success.

With continuous development comes frequent changes. There are two types of changes:

Change that is brought about by circumstances (reactive)
Change that has been planned and rolled out to encourage growth (proactive)

A proactive change management system can help your organisation plan for change and prepare for the barriers it may face throughout a journey of change.

To encourage implementing effective change, your systems can also be used to analyse the data gathered to help implement future change. Another key benefit of a change management system is preparing and supporting your people to facilitate them in adopting change. Providing your people with a structured approach to change will influence their transitions.

We have proven expertise in organisational development (OD) interventions at organisation, team and individual level. We have helped our clients in the public and private sector across the range of OD areas such as

assessment of leadership and management practice,
evaluating and optimising organisational structure,
assessment and transformation of organisational culture and
development and revitalising organisations mission and strategy.

Complementing these interventions is our expertise in performance improvement and project management.

We have provided a synopsis of key areas of each of our service lines below.

Organisational development

Our consulting team have deep expertise in diagnosing organisational ailments and designing, planning and executing planned change interventions to address them. Services provided in this complex area include;

Organisational design
Resource planning
Process and performance
Leadership coaching and psychometric assessment
Strategic planning – mission, vision and values
Employee engagement and feedback
Overcoming resistance to change
Cultural assessments and audits

Organisational design

We assist our clients in identifying desired organisational structures which are fit for purpose, and are appropriately structured to deliver on the strategic needs of the business. These projects typically involve;

"As is" organisational charting
“To be” organisational charting
Gap analysis
Implementation and strategic action plans

Workforce planning and resource reviews

Increasingly, organisations are challenged with ensuring their workforces are not only appropriately structured but suitably resourced. This can be in response to current or envisaged factors including opportunities, threats or challenges in the external environment.

Workforce Planning may be either operational or strategic in nature.

Operational workforce planning tends to focus on shorter-term operational requirements whereas
Strategic workforce planning advocates deeper organisational analysis to identify the roles that will serve to enable an organisation to achieve its longer-term strategic objectives. Strategic workforce planning further seeks to ensure that an organisation has the necessary talent to deliver on strategy.

Workforce planning will generally encompass assessment of the following elements;

Resourcing arrangements and levels
Skills assessment
Learning and development
Financial investment
Succession planning

Process and performance

RSM Ireland have a team of experienced performance improvement consultants, who provide and deliver a range of projects and services in this area including;

Performance improvement health checks;
Cost realignment;
Continuous improvement;
Business process re-engineering;
Lean consulting;
Programme execution;

Project management

Our experienced project managers prescribe to industry standards (i.e. PRINCE2) when providing advisory services in this area. RSM provide both end-to-end project management and adhoc advisory services for;