Organizational Design with a Creative & Analytical Problem Solving Approach
Today’s organizations are competing for talent, re-evaluating their work environment, and are facing unique pressure changes. The most successful organizations take action to preserve what’s best about their organization, uncover the underlying causes of obstacles and empower their people to drive change through organizational culture, operational excellence, and people strategy.
We believe that organizational design is key to develop effective organizations and organizational experience. With a fourteen-year background working with creative organizations and brands we can you enable unique organizational solutions for your business.
Without organizational design, the wrong things become priorities. We amass layers of people, unreliable HR metrics and create work that’s not aligned. We lose our best people, and suppress the collective potential of the people who remain. We lose the culture we worked so hard to cultivate, and eventually we lose to our competitors.
Our Strength is in Operations & Strategic Human Resource Development
Makr is not a traditional management consulting firm, we partner with you and your teams to design and build real change and to set the right priorities. Others end their engagement leaving you with just a design or model, we stay with you to help develop your organization. We co-create change and help you build strong operational and human resource structures— we don’t leave you with just benchmarks and a laundry list of to-do’s. Together, we can make a real difference for your organization and the people that work within it.
Fractional Operations & HR Partners
A fractional Operations or HR Head can expand the capacity of your leadership team with a thought partner whose skills and experience fill your organization’s gaps. Even though they are part-time, they become a part of your team, fully embedded in your culture, helping your team with strategic decision making.
Fractional executive services is a cost-effective way to improve day-to-day operations, project management, and business operations. Whether you’re implementing new approaches, improving daily operations or simply in need of an outside perspective as you create a roadmap to the future, a part-time Operations or HR lead can provide leadership that can make the difference.
➤ LOCATION
Based in NYC, we travel anywhere & offer remote services.
☎ Contact
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(201) 452-2416
Link Your Business Strategy to Organizational Strategy
We assess your current organizational & operating model—your strengths and weaknesses to determine how to effectively implement a strategic realignment, effect process change, build people programs, integrate new capabilities or seize market opportunities. We help you to imagine and implement and organization where everyone is united behind a bold purpose.
The Adaptable Organization
We work with you and your teams to collaborate on building an organization that enables you to operate with a start-up mindset that breaks silos, builds cross-organization connections and knowledge sharing to build an organization that can adapt to fast paced creative environments.
Blank Slate Organization Redesign
Sometimes changing one system or process set alone is not enough for true transformation or capability change. We offer a blank page approach that transforms your operating model to simplify your organization, streamline work processes, reveal opportunities and unlock massive savings.
Changing Work Landscape
Unique times require new people and process models. Let us help you with your reorganization or 2022 / 2023 growth plans to get you back on-track. In fact, work from home strategies, tailored skill training, and hybrid leadership skills are a must going forward. Let us help you develop programs that work for your entire workforce.
Build the Organization
We help clients design organizations to reduce costs, drive growth, and strengthen both short-term performance and long-term organizational health.
Improve the Way You Work
At the heart of getting things done is strong operations and financial competency. We help you build an operations backbone, so you can "operationalize” your long-term vision and build process and workflows that can be measured.
We Build Workflow for Humans
Your people are what make you unique.We believe in building process and behavioral change that allows for structure and team support. We believe in laying a workflow foundation first, so you can chose the right technology, digital transformation path or workflow / HRIS system next.
Only by mapping your workflow and activity can you begin to uncover the necessary skills and skill gaps to meet your organizational goals.
We Help You Close Your Success Gap
We close the gap by making sure you have the right people, in the right roles with the right support to succeed. We help you examine where you are now so you can get to where you need to be.
Build a Strong Operations Center
Our aim is to build organizations with the capacity to sense and adapt to change. We create new operating systems that enable organizations to continuously adapt in response to a changing world. We support your current operations team or help you to build one.
Fractional Operation & People Executives
Upping your operations game? We offer fractional Chief Operations and Chief People Offer Services.
Build Collaboration, Trust & Empowerment
We seek to help all types of teams—new, fractured, project-based and cross-functional—how to work together, build trust, be self-sufficient, empowered and effective.
Teams & Process Excellence
Team development goes hand-in-hand with process development, especially when tackling creative projects and problem solving. We believe that teamwork centers on internal interactions, not just process. We build teams that act with purpose—building a culture that knows what to do beyond standard operating procedures.
Build Teams
We help you build teams to give them the skills and support they need to perform their activities independently, with accountability, higher employee workplace satisfaction and retention.
Where OD Counts—Strategic People Practices.
Organizations are in the midst of a great upheaval. To get ahead, every organization needs to reimagine its business. All of your people should play a part in your purpose. Your people will drive your transformation.
Organizational strategy, planning and innovation can only be driven by your people. Your journey to your destination has to connect your purpose to the structure, process and culture your people will need to thrive within.
With organizational development as our base, we use behavioral science to help organizations improve how their people interact and have interactions — helping you and them to succeed.
Develop People with Strategic HRD Excellence & Planning
Organization development means creating an enabling workplace where people can work effectively toward strategic goals. We explore the overall dynamics of people systems in your firm, and build programs, training & initiatives that moves role development into people development. We build upon your workflow, activity and skill base to develop the architecture for people needs for now and into the future.
Strategic HR is managing HR in a way that supports the company’s long-term business goals and outcomes. Comprehensive HR strategy addresses all the key areas of HR: recruitment, compensation, learning and development, performance appraisal, and succession planning. When you align HR activities with an organization’s goals, you set the stage for successful people practices.
Let us help you build a 2022 vision for your people team so they can continue to grow your organizational design and people vision.
Build Individuals
Our goal is to help you build an environment that maximizes a person’s potential and help amplify their contribution to meet your business strategic goals. We build environments to align behavior that pushes problem solving and creative thinking forward.
Practical Problem Solving
Makr helps you analyze whatever problem you’re facing…so you have practical solutions to move forward.
Our task is to challenge good organizations to become even better by adopting new thinking or abandoning old ideas. As an outsider with decades of insider insights and experience—we’re able to step into ambiguous, complex and difficult situations and make sense of what changes need to be made and help facilitate that change.
Leading Chaos —
The Art & Science of Creative Project Management Workbook
Now Available in Hard Cover & PDF Download
Leading Chaos —The Art & Science of Creative Project Management Workbook is aimed at anyone who wants to understand how to manage projects in a creative firm environment. This paperback workbook is a standalone book, previously used exclusively during Makr’s project management workshops.
Broken into nine (9) modules:
Module 1 - Introduction and the Project Management Framework
Module 2 - Team Communication & Team Work
Module 3 - Managing the Project
Module 4 - Using Road Maps for Planning
Module 5 - Creative Project Management Mechanics - Part 1
Module 6 - Creative Project Management Mechanics - Part 2
Module 7 - Producing for Project Managers
Module 8 - Leading the Process
Module 9 - Leading the Impossible Team
Written for creative project managers, this workbook identifies and offers ways of managing creative process & workflow that is tailored specifically to the unique needs of creative businesses and in-house creative departments.