Organisational Structure Analysis #1:

The prevailing organisational structure will affect people's ability and willingness to change. This first analysis looks at how mechanistic or organic the organisational structure is overall, and how this will likely affect your ability to innovate. With this analysis, we will attempt to gain an understanding of how the organisational structure is likely to impact on the success of your implementation.

Directions

For each of the structural characteristics listed following on the left, think of the innovating unit (e.g., group, department, division and organisation) and choose one of the three responses that best describe the unit. This is only a rough analysis so we have limited you to one of three broad choices. Choose response "1" if the unit is best described by the item on the left. Choose response "3" if the unit is better described by the descriptor on the right. Choose option "2" if both descriptors describe the unit equally well or if the characteristic does not apply. In other words, when you consider roles, the first characteristic below, if roles in your organisation are more specialised than broad, you should choose 1. If roles are generally more broad than specialised, then choose 3. If some roles are specialised and some are broad, choose the middle response 2.