Breaking down silos and enhancing community connection

Case Study

Our executive structure solution

When this local council wanted to realign its executive structure to better position itself for the future, it reached out to Davidson to work with and guide the organisation to a successful outcome.

Challenge

This council was embarking on a new 5-year corporate plan. They needed to ensure that their executive structure and functional accountabilities and responsibilities were in alignment with their strategic objectives and community expectations.

Davidson’s Business Advisory team was engaged to perform a review, propose options and provide the necessary guidance and facilitation to the executive team to build a structure that enhanced across the organisation

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collaboration

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communication

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and co-operation

Solutions

Davidson’s Business Advisory team hand-selected a team of 2 for a brief engagement that included:

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Interviews

with the executive team and other key stakeholders to understand future strategic needs, current pain points, and improvement opportunities

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Analysis

of comparative council structures

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·Formulation ·of multiple executive structure future-state options

that supported the organisation’s need to become more sustainable, high performing, agile and future-focused

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·Facilitation of a full-day executive workshop

that supported the organisation’s need to become more sustainable, high performing, agile and future-focused

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Delivery of a final recommended structure

based on executive feedback from the workshop. 

Outcomes

The recommended revised structure, tabled by the CEO, was fully supported and formally ratified by the Mayor and councillors.

The organisation reported a level of confidence that the realignment would deliver long-term benefits for staff, helping to enhance communication, collaboration and co-operation across the organisation and supporting their commitment to deliver services and outcomes for the community.

At Davidson, we see our partnerships as being for the long-term. We think ‘30 years’ not ‘30 days,’ and we’re committed to going the extra mile to achieve results that deliver sustainable outcomes.

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