7 Reasons you may have to reorganize

This blog outlines the key scenarios that can trigger the need for an organizational restructuring or transformation within a company. Understanding these potential catalysts allows organizations to proactively identify restructuring needs and leverage tools to model and execute reorganizations effectively.
Joa
Marketing at Nakisa

Large organizations inevitably face moments when they ask a fundamental question: Is reorganization the right move to support our business goals? For organizations managing thousands of employees, multiple business units, and complex operational systems, this decision carries significant implications.

Reorganizations at this scale are far more than shifting reporting lines. They are strategic maneuvers that can sharpen a company’s competitive edge, or, if mishandled, unleash massive disruption. The stakes are high: both the decision to reorganize and the way it’s executed demand careful, enterprise-level thinking.

Yet, too often, reorgs are reactive. Under pressure, companies make structural changes without pausing to ask whether structure is truly the root issue. That can result in churn, confusion, and missed opportunities to address deeper problems. On the flip side, waiting too long to act can allow misalignment to drag down performance and morale. In fact, a McKinsey & Company survey found that over 80% of reorganizations fail to achieve intended objectives, often due to misdiagnosed problems or poor execution, with 10% causing real harm to the company.

Effective reorganization should be a strategic capability, not just a crisis response. Organizations benefit from understanding the specific conditions that genuinely require structural intervention, distinguishing these from challenges that tactical adjustments alone can address.

In this blog, we’ll explore seven primary drivers of enterprise reorganization. For each driver, we’ll explain why it requires a structural, not just operational, response, and how successful enterprises implement changes to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.

Table of contents

1. Mergers and acquisitions

What is it?  

When two large enterprises merge, organizational complexity increases exponentially. Beyond the obvious duplications, such as overlapping roles and competing processes, international M&A creates additional layers of challenge: overlapping regional structures, conflicting regulatory frameworks across jurisdictions, and cultural divides that span continents. The real integration work begins after the deal closes, as leadership must decide which global systems to standardize, which regional teams to consolidate, and how to eliminate redundancies across time zones without losing critical market capabilities. 

Why does it warrant a reorg?  

The statistics speak for themselves: M&A failure rates consistently range between 70% and 90%. For large international enterprises, failures often stem from underestimating the organizational complexity of true integration, not just the financial or operational aspects. 

Post-M&A complexity creates structural challenges that are too large for tactical fixes. Duplicate regional headquarters may compete for decision-making authority, while misaligned global processes create bottlenecks across every market. International teams may operate under different performance metrics, reporting structures, and cultural expectations, all while trying to serve the same customer base. 

The temptation is to make quick cuts based on headcount alone, but this approach misses the deeper opportunity to redesign around genuine synergies. Without structural intervention, organizations risk ending up with expensive parallel systems, confused customers, and demoralized employees who are unsure which processes to follow or which leaders have authority for cross-border decisions. 

What does a successful reorg following an M&A look like?  

Smart acquirers don't just cut costs; they redesign around synergies, creating new structures that leverage the best of both organizations. Companies that succeed move quickly to: 

  • Establish clear decision rights: Define who makes which decisions across regions and functions.
  • Align cross-functional teams: Integrate teams from both organizations to ensure collaboration and consistency. 
  • Build a unified identity: Create a shared vision and culture that employees can rally behind, reducing uncertainty and disengagement.  
  • Leverage synergies: Go beyond eliminating redundancies to strengthen the combined company’s ability to grow and compete, such as by consolidating service locations, aligning technology platforms, and optimizing go-to-market approaches. 
  • Plan integration early: The most successful integrations start planning before the deal closes, with dedicated integration teams and playbooks tailored to the specific deal.  

Case examples 

These real-world examples showcase how leading organizations have leveraged mergers and acquisitions to drive growth, expand market reach, and achieve strategic objectives, while highlighting both the opportunities and challenges of large-scale integration. 

  • Konecranes + MHPS: Achieved $160 million in synergies within three years by consolidating service locations, aligning technological standards, and streamlining corporate functions. 
  • Coop Norge + ICA Norway: Realized 87% of expected synergies within eight months by rebranding and fully integrating store operations, leading to significant profit and revenue growth. 
  • Office Depot + OfficeMax: Exceeded cost savings targets by implementing a rigorous integration plan and unifying key business functions rapidly post-merger. 

Key takeaways 

Mergers and acquisitions create a level of complexity that demands more than tactical fixes. Only a thoughtful, structural reorganization, focused on synergy, clarity, and unified culture, can unlock the full value of the deal and position the combined organization for sustainable success.  

2. Shifts in management style 

What is it?  

When leadership changes at a global organization, decision-making and management practices often need to change as well. With thousands of employees spanning multiple markets, even subtle shifts in style can trigger far-reaching structural consequences. This might involve a new CEO advocating for flatter hierarchies across international divisions, generational shifts toward more collaborative and less hierarchical approaches, or enterprise-wide agile transformations that require breaking down longstanding silos. Such changes demand structural support to take hold across diverse business units and geographic regions. 

Why does it warrant a reorg?  

The statistics underscore the challenge: 27-46% of executive transitions are regarded as failures or disappointments within two years. For large international enterprises, these figures become even more daunting as leadership changes must cascade through complex matrix structures and across different cultural and regulatory environments.  

New leadership brings fresh perspectives that often clash with entrenched reporting structures. For example, enterprise agile transformations promise faster time-to-market, but existing departmental silos create bottlenecks that undermine cross-functional collaboration. 

Surface-level adjustments rarely work at enterprise scale because they fail to address the underlying systems that reinforced previous behaviors. When thousands of employees across multiple continents are asked to behave differently within unchanged incentive structures, approval processes, and reporting relationships, deep-rooted resistance emerges. The organizational immune system actively works against transformation efforts. 

What does a successful reorg following a new management style look like?  

Rather than hoping that cultural change will organically spread through existing structures, successful organizations create organizational designs that make the desired behaviors easier than the old ones. They:

  • Establish clear accountability for cross-functional outcomes: Define who is responsible for what, breaking down silos and fostering collaboration. 
  • Remove approval layers that slow decision-making : Streamline processes to enable faster, more agile responses. 
  • Create governance structures for local autonomy and global alignment: Empower local teams while ensuring global consistency and strategy. 
  • Align promotion criteria, budget authority, and performance metrics: Ensure that incentives and recognitions systems reinforce the new leadership behaviors at every level. 

In this way, the structure itself becomes a catalyst for cultural change, making the new management style not just aspirational, but inevitable. 

Case examples 

The following real-world examples demonstrate how organizations have successfully navigated shifts in management style, using structural changes to embed new leadership approaches and drive positive transformation across their operations.

  • Microsoft’s cultural transformation under Satya Nadella: When Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, Microsoft faced a stagnant culture marked by silos and internal competition. Nadella shifted the company from a “know-it-all” to a “learn-it-all” mindset, emphasizing growth, collaboration, and inclusivity. He broke down barriers between teams, encouraged risk-taking, and made diversity a priority. These structural and cultural changes led to improved morale, better collaboration, and significant business growth. 
  • Adobe’s HR transformation: Adobe transitioned from selling boxed software to offering cloud-based services. This required a fundamental shift in management style and HR practices. Adobe redesigned its HR function to focus on employee engagement, continuous feedback, and a culture of growth and adaptability. The result was higher retention, greater innovation, and alignment with the company’s new strategic vision.
  • Barclays’ post-crisis leadership change: After the 2008 crisis, Barclays’ new leadership implemented a customer-first approach, reduced staff, and improved digital services. These changes required structural realignment to support new decision-making and operational models, helping the bank restore trust and regain its competitive edge. 

Key takeaways 

Shifts in management style, especially at the top, demand more than new slogans or training programs. They require thoughtful, structural reorganization that aligns incentives, removes barriers to new behaviors, and empowers teams to operate in ways that reflect the new vision. When done well, such organizations not only support leadership transitions but also unlock new levels of agility, collaboration, and sustainable performance.  

3. Downsizing

What is it?  

For large organizations, downsizing extends far beyond traditional layoffs. Cost pressures, obsolete business units, or underperformance across regions often force global enterprises to rethink their entire operational footprint. The complexity multiplies when downsizing must occur across different labor laws, cultural contexts, and business cycles simultaneously. 

Why does it warrant a reorg?  

Research has long shown that layoffs have a detrimental effect on individuals and corporate performance. Short-term cost savings are often overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation. For large enterprises, downsizing may actually reduce productivity, customer satisfaction, and morale, if handled poorly

The fundamental issue isn't just losing talent; it's creating impossible workloads for remaining employees while maintaining the same systems that created inefficiencies in the first place. When organizations cut headcount without reorganizing workflows, they create overloaded employees, unclear responsibilities, and processes designed for pre-downsizing staffing levels. The result is often lower productivity than before the cuts, defeating the entire purpose of the exercise. 

What does a successful reorg due to downsizing look like?  

Organizations that downsize successfully use the transition as an opportunity to create more efficient structures rather than simply smaller versions of what existed before. They: 

  • Redesign workflows, roles, and hierarchies: Clarify roles and responsibilities, eliminate redundant positions and processes, and flatten management layers to streamline decision-making and empower teams. 
  • Leverage automation and focus on core priorities: Identify tasks for automation or elimination and realign teams and resources around the organization’s most important business objectives. 
  • Support, communicate, and engage: Maintain clear, transparent communication throughout the process, provide support and upskilling for remaining employees, and celebrate progress to sustain morale and engagement. 
  • Monitor and adapt: Track productivity, engagement, and cultural health metrics, and adjust strategies as needed to ensure ongoing success.  

Successful organizations approach downsizing as a catalyst for positive change, resulting in a leaner, more agile organization ready to thrive in a competitive environment.  

Case examples 

These recent examples highlight how organizations have used downsizing not only to reduce costs, but also to strategically realign their operations and workforce for greater efficiency and future growth. 

  • Intuit: Intuit laid off 1,800 employees (about 10% of its workforce) while simultaneously hiring 1,800 new workers as part of a strategic restructuring focused on AI and future growth. This “skill-based” downsizing allowed Intuit to realign its workforce around emerging technologies and business priorities, minimizing disruption and positioning the company for future innovation. 
  • Adobe: Adobe laid off around 750 employees in 2011 as part of a strategic shift away from legacy technologies like Flash and toward cloud-based digital media and marketing solutions. This reorganization supported Adobe’s move to Creative Cloud and a subscription-based model, allowing the company to reallocate resources toward growth areas like HTML5, Adobe AIR, and digital marketing tools. 

Key takeaways 

Downsizing is not just about reducing headcount, it’s an opportunity for strategic organizational redesign. Enterprises that succeed use downsizing as a catalyst to streamline workflows, eliminate redundancies, and flatten hierarchies, all while preserving critical capabilities and supporting remaining employees. Done right, this approach leads to leaner, more agile organization ready to thrive in a competitive environment. 

4. New technology

What is it?  

Technology implementations in large organizations are rarely plug-and-play solutions. Instead, they fundamentally reshape workflows across thousands of employees, multiple business units, and complex global operations. Rather than simply replacing individual tasks, AI and automation redefine how humans and systems collaborate, often requiring entirely new skill sets and decision-making structures. 

Why does it warrant a reorg?  

Digital transformation is notoriously difficult, with up to 84% of companies failing at digital transformation according to Forbes. In 2018 alone, over $900 billion were wasted on such projects. For large enterprises, these failures often stem from layering expensive new technology onto existing broken processes and organizational structures, and underestimating the organizational change required to realize technology's promised value.  

The challenge intensifies with AI and automation. McKinsey projects that around 15% of the global workforce (approximately 400 million workers) could be displaced by automation by 2030, necessitating massive reskilling and restructuring efforts. Companies that simply overlay AI tools onto traditional hierarchical structures miss the transformative opportunity. New technology becomes a catalyst for organizational change, requiring new cross-functional teams, different skill development pathways, and entirely new governance structures to manage human-AI collaboration at enterprise scale. 

What does a successful reorg following new technology look like?  

Successful enterprises recognize that adopting new technologies is only the first step. True transformation requires a fundamental rethink of how teams, processes, and governance are structured. Here’s how they approach reorganization after major technology shifts: 

  • Build cross-functional, hybrid teams: Combine technical and domain expertise in new teams designed to leverage both human and technological strengths, breaking down traditional silos and fostering innovation. 
  • Establish centers of excellence and new career pathways: Create enterprise-wide centers of excellence that promote best practices and learning, while offering blended career tracks that support upskilling and reskilling for the digital era. 
  • Redefine governance and invest in continuous learning: Implement new governance structures to manage human-AI collaboration, clarify decision rights, and prioritize ongoing training and change management to ensure workforce readiness and adaptability. 

This approach ensures that new technology drives not just operational change, but lasting organizational transformation. 

Case examples

The following real-world examples illustrate how leading organizations have successfully reorganized around new technology, demonstrating the tangible benefits of digital transformation for enterprise operations. 

  • Microsoft’s AI transformation (2019–Present): Microsoft reorganized its business around AI and cloud, creating cross-functional teams and investing heavily in upskilling. The company established AI centers of excellence and integrated AI into core products, driving significant growth and innovation.
  • JPMorgan Chase’s COiN platform: JPMorgan Chase launched COiN, an AI-driven contract intelligence platform. The bank restructured legal and compliance teams to work alongside data scientists, blending domain expertise with advanced analytics to automate and improve contract review processes. 
  • Unilever’s digital supply chain: Unilever implemented AI and automation across its global supply chain, reorganizing teams to focus on digital capabilities and data-driven decision-making, resulting in improved efficiency and agility. 

Key takeaways 

Successful technology-driven reorganization is not just about adopting new tools. It’s about transforming the organization to leverage new capabilities. This means breaking down silos, creating hybrid teams, establishing centers of excellence, and developing new career pathways. The most successful enterprises recognize that technology transformation is fundamentally about organizational transformation, with technology serving as the enabler rather than the end goal. 

5. Business direction

What is it?  

Strategic pivots in large organizations, such as entering new geographic markets, launching entirely different product lines, or adopting new go-to-market approaches, often reveal that organizational structures built for yesterday's priorities cannot support tomorrow's ambitions. As companies evolve, their strategies and structures must evolve in tandem. 

Why does it warrant a reorg?  

Execution breaks down when strategy and structure fall out of sync.  Research shows that 70% of change projects fail due to poor execution. For example, marketing teams built around regional campaigns may lack the agility and focus to support a global, digital-first approach. When enterprises attempt to force new strategies through organizational structures optimized for previous business models, misalignment creates friction across every layer, delaying execution, confusing teams, and slowing momentum. 

What does a successful reorg following a change in business direction look like?  

The best-performing enterprises realign the strategy and the organization. They: 

  • Align teams, roles, and accountability with new priorities: Rebuild teams and redefine roles to support the new strategy. Adjust accountability and reporting lines to ensure clarity and alignment with business objectives. 
  • Restructure incentives, workflows, and informal networks: Align incentives, performance metrics, and workflows with the new direction. Support informal collaboration with formal structures to reduce friction and accelerate adoption.
  • Foster cross-functional and cross-geographic collaboration: Break down silos and promote collaboration across regions and business units to ensure the new strategy is executed consistently.
  • Invest in change management and clear communication: Communicate the rationale for change, provide support for employees, and ensure ongoing dialogue to maintain engagement and momentum throughout the transition.

This approach ensures that the organization is fully aligned and equipped to execute its new business direction. 

Case examples 

  • Nike’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) shift: Nike’s pivot to a direct-to-consumer model involved restructuring its supply chain, digital teams, and retail operations to prioritize online sales and personalized customer experiences.
  • Barnes & Noble’s local autonomy shift: Barnes & Noble’s move toward local autonomy involved restructuring store management and empowering individual locations to make decisions about inventory and layout, enabling a more community-driven and responsive retail experience. 
  • The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ2020 initiative: The Wall Street Journal’s shift to a digital-first strategy involved reorganizing its newsroom, creating new leadership roles, and realigning editorial processes to better serve a mobile-driven, membership-focused audience.

Key takeaways 

A change in business direction demands more than a new strategy. It requires a thoughtful reorganization that aligns structure, incentives, and workflows with the new vision. The most successful enterprises use strategic pivots as an opportunity to refresh their organizational design, ensuring that every layer of the company is set up to execute the new direction with speed, clarity, and focus. 

6. Performance gaps

What is it?  

In large enterprises, performance gaps often manifest as systemic dysfunction: decision-making slows across business units, KPIs are consistently missed despite individual effort, and accountability becomes unclear or diffuse. Even a single regional or functional bottleneck can ripple across the entire organization, dragging down productivity on a global scale. 

Why does it warrant a reorg?  

Organizational dysfunction creates measurable productivity drains that tactical fixes alone cannot resolve. Poor performance frequently traces back to structural issues such as unclear ownership spanning multiple business units, communication bottlenecks that hinder information flow across time zones, and spans of control that limit effective problem-solving at the speed modern markets require. Teams often spend more time coordinating across organizational boundaries than focusing on their core work. Critical decisions get stuck in approval chains that were not designed to support global, real-time business needs. Information flows slowly or becomes distorted as it passes through layers of hierarchy and regional management structures. 

These challenges cannot be solved by process improvements alone. They require a fundamental rethink of how teams are configured across the enterprise, how information flows between functions and regions, and where decision authority sits. 

What does a successful reorg following performance gaps look like?  

The goal is not to merely patch performance issues but to eliminate the underlying friction causing them. Effective reorganizations: 

  • Faster feedback loops: Build processes that enable rapid detection and correction of issues, ensuring the organization can respond quickly to emerging challenges.  
  • Empower local teams: Grant decision-making authority to local teams to solve problems efficiently without causing organizational chaos, fostering agility and ownership. 
  • Streamlined decision rights: Clarify and simplify decision-making authority across the entire enterprise to reduce bottlenecks and improve accountability. 
  • Structural alignment over personnel changes: Address underlying organizational design rather than focusing solely on individual performance, recognizing that systemic problems require systemic solutions. 
  • Enhanced information flow and agility: Design structures that enable faster, clearer communication and create agile teams capable of adapting to changing business needs.  

The new organizational design enables faster information flow, more agile and empowered teams, clearer decision-making authority, and accountability structures that prevent systemic performance gaps from recurring. 

Case examples 

The following real-world examples illustrate how leading organizations have addressed performance gaps through strategic reorganization, unlocking new levels of productivity and alignment. 

  • Hulu: In 2023, Hulu reorganized its management structure by creating key roles such as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Officer to better align with its strategic priorities. This restructuring addressed performance gaps in technology and product development, enabling Hulu to support rapid growth, streamline operations, and attract critical talent. 
  • Unilever: Unilever restructured to simplify its complex business units and improve operational efficiency. By rationalizing its portfolio and focusing on core brands, the company closed performance gaps related to fragmented operations, enabling increased profitability and growth opportunities. 
  • Airbus: In the early 2000s, Airbus faced serious performance issues due to delays and internal problems with the A380 program. The company restructured its production processes, optimized its supply chain, and revamped management. This organizational overhaul helped Airbus strengthen competitiveness and resolve systemic performance bottlenecks. 

Key takeaways 

Performance gaps often stem from structural misalignment with company strategy or market needs. Tactical fixes alone rarely work. Successful reorganizations streamline decision-making, clarify accountability, and realign talent to better match priorities. Ongoing evaluation ensures lasting improvements and adaptability to change. 

7. External pressure

What is it?  

External pressures encompass a wide range of forces that compel organizations to change their structures and operations. These can include new regulations, such as GDPR or SOX compliance, ESG reporting requirements, and other labor law changes that require dedicated privacy officers, audit trails, and governance frameworks that didn't exist before.  

Market disruptions, like the COVID-19 pandemic or the AI boom, forced companies to rapidly reorganize around remote work, digital customer engagement, and supply chain resilience.  

Investor demands also drive structural change, whether through activist investors pushing for spin-offs, private equity firms demanding operational efficiency, or public market expectations for ESG (Environmenta, Social, and Governance) reporting that necessitate new cross-functional teams and accountability structures. 

Why does it warrant a reorg?  

Failing to respond structurally to external pressures leads to tangible business consequences. Companies that do not reorganize to meet new regulatory requirements risk compliance violations, operational bottlenecks, and losing competitive advantage. Those that ignore market disruptions lose market share to more agile competitors who realign their organizations to new realities. Structural adaptation is essential not just for survival but for maintaining and enhancing market position. 

What does a successful reorg following these triggers look like?  

Rather than reacting defensively to external pressures, successful organizations proactively reshape their structures to turn challenges into opportunities. A successful reorganization in this context is marked by forward-looking design that not only addresses immediate demands but also strengthens the company’s long-term resilience and adaptability. They: 

  • Anticipatory and flexible structures: Build organizational capabilities that anticipate and quickly adapt to new regulatory requirements, market disruptions, and investor expectations, enabling rapid response and structural flexibility. 
  • Scalable compliance and cross-functional agility: Create scalable compliance functions and cross-functional teams that can pivot quickly to address evolving regulations, market shifts, or business priorities, while maintaining operational efficiency. 
  • Investor-centric accountability and opportunity-driven transformation: Establish governance and accountability mechanisms that satisfy investor demands, treat external pressures as opportunities for competitive advantage, and drive innovation or efficiency gains (such as improved data governance from GDPR alignment). 
  • Sustainable organizational resilience: Focus on building long-term organizational resilience, ensuring the company is better prepared for future disruptions and can outpace competitors still reacting to current challenges. 

Case examples 

  • Facebook: Facebook has undergone multiple reorganizations in response to external pressures, including regulatory scrutiny, and data privacy concerns. In 2018, Facebook restructured around three key product areas (down from five) to streamline decision-making and address regulatory and security challenges. This allowed the company to bring in new leadership for emerging technologies and adapt more quickly to evolving market and compliance demands. 
  • Tesla: Tesla faced external pressure from investors to improve profitability and accelerate production. In 2018, the company announced a major reorganization, flattening its structure and cutting 9% of its salaried workforce to improve communication and cash flow. This restructuring helped Tesla meet production targets and regain investor confidence. 
  • Google/Alphabet: In 2015, Google restructured by creating Alphabet, a new holding company, in response to investor demands for greater transparency and accountability. This change separated Google’s core business from its experimental projects, each led by its own CEO. The reorganization improved governance, enabled focused innovation, and positioned Alphabet for continued growth in a changing market. 

Key takeaways 

Successful organizations respond to external pressure by building flexible, adaptable structures that anticipate change rather than react to it. They empower teams to pivot quickly and strengthen compliance and governance, turning external challenges into opportunities for competitive advantage and long-term resilience.

Conclusion: when should you reorganize?

The seven triggers we’ve covered signal real structural challenges, situations where reorganization is essential. But not every business challenge requires overhauling your structure. The difference between a successful reorg and an expensive, painful misadventure often comes down to one thing: proper diagnosis. 

Structural problems require structural solutions. When M&A creates overlapping reporting lines across continents, downsizing leaves teams with unsustainable workloads, or new technologies outpace existing workflows, strategy shifts demand new capabilities, accountability gaps slow performance, or regulatory changes call for new functions: these are signals that your structure no longer fits your business reality. 

But not every challenge is structural. Sometimes, what appears structural is actually behavioral, cultural, or executional. Before jumping into reorganization, ask: 

  • Is the problem structural or behavioral? Structural issues persist regardless of individual performance and affect multiple teams or regions. They show up as systemic bottlenecks, unclear decision rights, or workflows that no longer match business requirements. Behavioral issues, on the other hand, are often isolated to specific teams, managers, or functions and can be addressed through coaching, training, or individual performance management.
  • Are we solving the right pain point? Organizations sometimes reorganize around symptoms rather than root causes. Customer complaints about slow response times may point to approval processes, not team structures. Missed deadlines may reflect resource constraints rather than inefficient or unclear reporting lines.
  • Do we have leadership alignment? Reorganizations require strong, sustained commitment from leaders across all affected business units and geographies. Without clear consensus on the problem, solution, and success metrics, reorganizations risk creating competing priorities and mixed messages that undermine execution. 

Reorganizing isn't always the answer. Avoid structural changes when problems stem from execution, when leadership is in flux, or when your organization has recently undergone major changes and needs time to stabilize. 

How can a solution help achieve a successful reorganization? 

Despite advances in technology and automation, many organizations still rely on  legacy tools like Excel, PowerPoint, or basic charting solutions, or standard HCM or HRIS tools to manage reorganization.  

These tools provide limited visibility into current organizational structures, lack the ability to forecast workforce needs, and cannot handle advanced scenario modeling, real-time impact analysis, and scenario comparison. They also fail to automate repetitive tasks or enable the batch operations required for large-scale transformations. 

Furthermore, legacy tools operate in isolation from core systems like ERP or HCM, making it difficult to access up-to-date data or efficiently write back approved changes. As a result, decision-makers struggle to build and compare scenarios, evaluate potential outcomes, and make timely, data-driven decisions.  

These limitations also hinder cross-functional collaboration, slow down execution, and increase the risk of errors. Ultimately, relying on such methods undermines organizational agility, efficiency, and the ability to adapt quickly to change. 

That’s where the Nakisa Workforce Planning Portfolio comes in. Whether you’re navigating an M&A, realigning for strategic growth, or closing performance gaps, Nakisa offers an integrated suite of solutions purpose-built to support successful workforce transformation of global enterprises and complex and dynamic workforce needs.  

  • Nakisa's org chart and analytics software delivers real-time visibility into your organizational structure, powered by live ERP or HCM data. You can generate dynamic org charts with rich filters, in-chart analytics, and the flexibility to model structures for multiple use cases (succession planning, compliance reviews, talent assessments, and more). Advanced dashboards, powered by AI, provide a deeper understanding of workforce health, helping you act faster and more confidently. 
    When it comes to reorganizations, this level of clarity helps you identify where changes are needed, who’s impacted, and how resources can be redistributed, so you’re not restructuring in the dark. 
  • Nakisa’s strategic workforce planning software helps you model future scenarios and assess the impact of key decisions. It taps into the 5C framework to provide you a detailed current state assessment of your cost, capacity, capabilities, composition, and configuration in your workforce. Thanks to integration of supply, market and demand drivers, the software allows you to simulate different future state scenarios based on different talent supply strategies. These follow the 6B (Buy, Bot, Borrow, Bind, Bounce, and Build) framework to provide different options and KPIs to choose from. Once a scenario is selected, over the course of its action (3-5+ years), you can consistently track its current impact and compare to baseline and estimations. This planning capability is essential for long-term reorganizations, where workforce sustainability must be balanced with policy mandates, funding constraints, and service delivery goals.
  • Nakisa's org design software equips organizations to design, test, and implement structural changes without disrupting operations. Build new org structures, compare scenarios side-by-side, understand downstream impacts on headcount and budget, and validate plans collaboratively across HR, Finance, and leadership. With built-in guardrails for compliance and workflows for governance, you can drive real transformation while maintaining control and alignment. These model scenarios come with delta dashboards and analytics to compare forecasted metrics to their baseline and to objectives, letting you take informed decisions. 

Together, these tools provide an integrated approach to understanding your organization today and shaping what it needs to become tomorrow. 

Explore more about its capabilities here, read client testimonials, or request a personalized demo to see how Nakisa can support your transformation. 

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