Unlock Millions by Making Your Organization Leaner and Faster

Is your organization built for what comes next?

As businesses grow, so do structures, hierarchies, and processes. Over time, this creates complexity that slows things down: decision-making, execution, and ultimately growth. 

Our new Strategy Paper shows how leading companies are transforming this complexity into a competitive advantage: by making their organizations leaner and faster.

The challenge: growth creates friction

In today’s business environment, companies face vastly different pressures. Some are growing rapidly, others are fighting to stay profitable in shrinking markets. But one challenge is universal: organizational structures have quietly become more complex than effective.

Inefficiencies build up. Responsibilities blur. Governance becomes slow. And before you know it, the structure no longer fits the strategy. Whether you're trying to scale with your current workforce, protect margins, or restructure to stay competitive — efficiency has become a key business driver.
 

A roadmap to organizational efficiency

This Strategy Paper offers a proven approach to reduce complexity, unlock hidden capacity and realign the organization with business needs. Using the H&Z Target Operating Model, we outline how to increase margin per employee by 10–20% through smart structural decisions.
The paper defines three typical organizational situations (growth, optimization, downsizing)  and shows how to tackle each with tailored efficiency levers. From clarifying roles to simplifying governance, from reducing non-value-adding activities to embedding cultural change — we help organizations shift from friction to focus.