The origins of OrgMaps was a dream by a handful of Q5ers to make organisation transformation easier and to better delight our clients. We took the things that were complex and time consuming and digitised our approaches so we could deliver complex transformations more efficiently and effectively. The different modules of the OrgMaps platform provide an end-to-end tech backbone that encapsulates the different facets of complex organisation transformation.

From the get-go we focused on making the tool simple to use and be able to be deployed across sectors. With so many Q5ers delivering for a wide variety of clients across the globe we wanted to ensure that it was simple to use and reflects the collaborative, partnership approach we bring to all our projects.

Data is essential to making the right decisions on the size, make-up and direction of your business. OrgMaps brings together the wide range of organisation data into a single place to become what one of our clients called ‘the cockpit’ of his strategic transformation program. OrgMaps provides a single source of truth to inform your organisational strategy, assess your organisation design, identify areas for improvement, facilitating better leadership conversations, and enable you to create more value for your business.

OrgMaps allows you to deeply understand the current state across each of it’s modules – from understanding if you have the right structure, to assessing your organisation’s performance against peers, where are the painpoints that will hold you back. But OrgMaps is so much more. It’s a sandbox to envision, design and scenario test different futures – explore what shifting from a functional model to a product-based model would look like (and cost), define the key cultural shifts that will deliver your strategy, predict the future size and make-up of your workforce.

Understand and design the organisation to deliver your strategy

Organisation Builder underpins Organisation Design with a dynamic model of your business. It paints a picture of its current shape and provides the building blocks to design an effective future organisation.

• Clean your organisation data
• Visualise your current organisation
• Analyse your organisation structure
• Design your future organisation structure
• Scenario test different structure options
• Map your existing workforce to the future organisation

Quantify and transform the work that gets done

Activity & Cost Analyser provides a detailed understanding of activity in the organisation the building block of organisation design: where is time spent, what is the cost of activity and how best to organise to deliver your strategy

• Map and cost activity today with an easy to use, flexible data capture approach
• Compare productivity between teams and markets
• Identify areas of duplication and inefficiency
• Identify automation and outsourcing opportunities
• Build business case for improvements
• Model different operating models and scenarios

Determine the workforce and capability to deliver your strategy

Q5’s Strategic Workforce Model is a dynamic model to understand current and future workforce requirements, drawing on a market leading tool to understand workforce and skills

• Understand your current workforce make-up and skill requirements
• Predict future headcount needs and test against different scenarios
• Forecast labour costs across the organisation and compare markets
• Map location of critical skills across the organisation
• Assess skills and identify key skills gaps
• Model different location strategies

Target the culture to deliver your strategy

Q5’s Culture Diagnostic draws on leading research on organisation culture and performance improvement. It can be used with organisations of all sizes to create a snapshot of the culture today, identify the key cultural shifts required and areas of misalignment.

• Snapshot of the current culture and target culture
• Compare teams, geographies and business units
• Understand cultural fit of newly acquired businesses
• Assess cultural health against our 5 Healthy Culture Indicators
• Identify the key cultural shifts needed to deliver your strategy
• Capture qualitative insights from your team

Measure performance outcomes and the health of the operating model

Q5’s Organisation Health Scan is a holistic diagnostic of the health of your business to understand what levers to pull to enhance performance ​and deliver on your strategic ambition

• Create a holistic view of performance and the health of the organisation
• Capture different perspectives from stakeholders
• Compare performance outcomes against peers
• Integrate quantitative and qualitative analysis with Q5’s Org Health framework
• Create actionable insights to drive improved performance