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, and for maximum benefits to society, organizational architecture has to be in place that’s aligned with the goals of global betterment. To be more specific, organizational architecture can change the world by:
- Transforming values
- Protecting the global economy
- Improving sustainability
Transforming Values
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 become committed to personal maturity and acting in alignment with integrity, organizations thrive and contribute to their communities directly and indirectly. Social and financial integrity provides a conscience to the organization, preventing the onslaught of greed and the major disgraces that follow it.
Improving Sustainability
As an organization’s values are transformed in a positive way, its productivity and profitability surge, ultimately satisfying the stakeholders and workers at the same time. When the organization is a source of accomplishment, contribution, and happiness, the workers become more motivated to perform more efficiently, increasing productivity and boosting customer satisfaction. The combined effects of improvement 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.
