Mergers and Restructures

In large organisations, such as colleges and universities, changes to the organisational structure tend to occur on a fairly regular basis. The drivers for such structural change may include changes in senior management and hence new strategic directions, changes in service requirements and the opportunity to deliver new and improved services and, increasingly, pressing financial imperatives. In some cases it is decided that the response to some or all of these drivers is best met by merging with another organisation.

In a complex organisation (which may itself have grown out of previously autonomous institutions) the amount of business process and system change required to operate effectively under a different structure may not be dissimilar to the issues faced by merging institutions hence we are looking at both types of organisational change in this section.