Before you start moving boxes or announcing changes, there’s one critical step that can make or break a restructure, understanding your current state.
Current State Analysis is a data-driven process to assess how your organisation is structured and operating today and identify opportunities for improvement. It’s your starting point for any effective org design.
What is Current State Analysis?
Current State Analysis is a data-driven process to assess how your organisation is structured and operating today and identify opportunities for improvement.
It involves reviewing your organisation’s structure, including people, roles, reporting lines and how work gets done, to see how well it supports your organisation’s strategic objectives. The aim is to get a clear view of the workforce so you can focus on what needs attention and guide future org design decisions.
When should you do it?
Current State Analysis isn’t just for major projects. It’s useful:
- Before an org design or restructure project
- During business-as-usual (BAU) workforce reviews
- In response to Machinery of Government (MoG) changes or internal re-organisations
- As part of an ongoing org design function
Why it matters
Getting your current state right delivers major benefits:
- Strategic alignment: Creates a shared, accurate view for HR, IT and executives to support better decisions
- Benchmarking and measurement: Establishes a clear baseline to track org design impact and workforce metrics
- Operational planning: Provides reliable workforce data for planning, reporting and structure reviews
- Project and change readiness: Prepares teams for HRIS upgrades, MoG changes and internal restructures
- Reducing organisational risk: Highlights gaps, overlaps and errors early to avoid costly delays or compliance issues
Want to know how to run a best-practice Current State Analysis?
The full whitepaper covers:
- A step-by-step guide to Current State Analysis activities
- What high-quality Current State Analysis outputs look like
- How tools provided by Navigo automate data validation and live visualisation
- Real results from HR teams across ANZ (14+ hours saved weekly)
- Why Current State Analysis reduces reliance on IT and boosts confidence in HR
Download the full whitepaper to get the complete picture and start your next org design project on solid ground.
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