As a business grows, its organization becomes hierarchical with many reporting lines and management levels. Business owners start recruiting workers and creating different departments to improve efficiency and management oversight. This increases the cost of running a business.
The post-COVID reorganization strategies should include streamlining business processes and using technology to flatten the organization.
Teams should be given higher responsibilities and training to make agile decisions with inherent supervisory capacity.
Business owners and managers should be on top of the mission and business-critical data, reduce business requirements, eliminate low value-adding work, restructure the jobs of any less-than-fully-busy employees and confront the problem of underperformers.
This will not only improve adaptability but will help in reducing the cost of doing business for overall sustainability.
Remember, one of the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic is to differentiate between essential and non-essential.