Organization Design

We don’t reorganize companies. We reorganize how they perform.

Turning Reorganization into Performance Drivers

Reorganizations often start with the right intent. Leaders aim for clearer structures, sharper focus, and faster decisions. Yet, many initiatives create disruption instead of direction because changing an organization chart is easier than changing behaviors.

Moving boxes on slides is simple. Making the organization perform differently is complex. Successful reorganization starts by identifying what works well and what truly needs to evolve. Too often, companies oversimplify the process, focusing only on top-down strategy and structure, or implementing new systems and tools from the bottom in isolation from strategic priorities.

EFESO sees reorganizations as pivotal moments to realign how an organization creates value. Strategy, processes, data, systems, management, leadership, and culture must converge in a new way of working. We look at reorganizations from a systemic perspective, with the end goal of creating performance.

The real challenge isn’t just designing a new organization, but making it perform by redesigning decision flows, empowering people, and embedding adaptability for ongoing evolution.

Meet our Organization Design Leaders

Marcia de Troyer

Partner

Dr. Thomas Troll

Senior Partner

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Real Results Achieved with our Clients

When organizations are designed around performance, results follow. Across industries, EFESO clients have achieved measurable impact by focusing on decision speed, collaboration, and execution. Here are some examples:

58%

Faster time to market in pharmaceuticals

70 to 90%

Boosted vessel traffic reliability

30%

Rise in project realization across transformation programs

€30M

In recurring annual savings in automotive

A Tailored and Pragmatic Approach that Fits your Reality

EFESO’s approach to organizational design goes far beyond hierarchy. Together with our clients, we focus on how value is created and how decision speed can be increased. We start by clarifying desired outcomes and identifying where value is lost or decisions stall.

We then map clusters of activities that need to work together and develop organizational scenarios with clear trade-offs. Working with leadership, we balance speed, disruption, and participation to support sustainable change. Throughout the process, we involve managers and teams early, co-create the future operating model, and build internal capabilities so the organization continues to evolve after implementation.

Many sophisticated strategies fail not for lack of intelligence, but due to a gap in execution. Our mission is to close that gap, together.

Our approach is built on several key steps:

Start with Value Creation and Decision Speed - BOOST

We begin by understanding clarifying the results you want to achieve.

Map Activities and Design Scenarios - RE:THINK

We map clusters of activities that need to work together.

Support Leadership in Making Trade-Offs - BUILD

We help leadership make the right trade-offs between speed, disruption, and participation.

Balance Speed and Participation

Always considering the level of involvement required for lasting change.

Co-Create a Platform for Change

We ensure people understand the reasons behind the transformation.

Build Internal Capabilities

We build internal capabilities so the organization becomes self-sustaining.

Real Results Together

Start with Value Creation and Decision Speed - BOOST

We begin by clarifying the results you want to achieve. Then, we design the target operating model by identifying where value is lost and where decisions stall. We ask: What would the organization look like if designed around outcomes, not just functions?

Map Activities and Design Scenarios - RE:THINK

We map clusters of activities that need to work together. Based on your company’s challenges, we develop alternative organizational scenarios, each with clear pros and cons. These options are openly discussed with your management team.

Support Leadership in Making Trade-Offs - BUILD

We help leadership make the right trade-offs between speed, disruption, and participation. Do you prefer rapid pilots and gradual rollouts, or opt a big-bang approach? How much disruption is acceptable? How much participation is needed for sustainable change?

Balance Speed and Participation

Always considering the level of involvement required for lasting change. If a small team designs everything, resistance may grow. Broader team involvement ensures smoother implementation.

Co-Create a Platform for Change

We ensure people understand the reasons behind the transformation. Together, we design the operating model in depth, working with leaders so they become active sponsors of the change.

Build Internal Capabilities

We build internal capabilities so the organization becomes self-sustaining. Our goal is that, even after our engagement ends, your teams can continue to evolve and perform.

Organization Design Client Results

Explore Business cases & Client Results

Transportation, Logistics and Services

Achieving Sustainable Transformation, From Vision to Strategy and Implementation, for a Major European Port

Transformed Europe's second-largest port into climate-neutral hub while increasing throughput and securing substantial EU funding.

Food & Beverage

Unified Performance and Culture Transformation Across a Global Food Network

An eight year journey hardwired a common way of thinking and working into the organization, enabling Bell Food Group to sustain delivery performance above 98.5% despite rising costs and market complexity.

Life Sciences

Redesigning Operations and Optimizing Supply Chain in Cosmetics Production

EFESO supported a major cosmetics supplier in redesigning operations across six factories and optimizing the supply chain, targeting improved productivity and long-term profitability.

The EFESO Touch

EFESO delivers organizational design through execution, not theory. We work side by side with leadership teams, combining strategic clarity with hands-on operational experience. Our collaborative approach avoids purely top-down redesigns and focuses on how organizations actually perform day to day.

By connecting structure, decision flows, leadership behaviors, and culture, we help embed new ways of working that last. Our deep sector expertise and pragmatic mindset increase the likelihood that redesigned organizations deliver measurable performance, not just better-looking charts. Together, we link results directly to how the organization works in practice.