OrgBuilder, BCG X’s patented software platform, provides a single source of truth for enabling organizational transformation and facilitating change management.
BCG knows that the essence of any organization—people working together collaboratively—is also the basis of competitive advantage. That’s why OrgBuilder leverages the combined power of BCG and BCG X to address organizational redesign, transformation, and employee engagement simultaneously.
With its secure, scalable architecture, OrgBuilder allows managers to focus on placing the most capable employees in positions where they can make the greatest contributions. Since its launch in 2010, BCG has used OrgBuilder as a corporate reorganization tool in more than 3,000 projects, restructuring more than 4 million roles to create higher-performing organizations.
Why OrgBuilder
The Benefits of OrgBuilder
As BCG X's proprietary cloud-based organization design platform, OrgBuilder acts as your single source of truth to create transparency and facilitate corporate reorganization. Our solution allows clients to successfully design and implement their desired organization while building the foundation for future org health and performance.
Supports Distributed Org Design
Our clients get the best results using a distributed approach to organization design, where embedded managers who are closest to the work are responsible for defining roles and aligning people with positions. OrgBuilder gives managers an intuitive, secure, and scalable platform on which to perform distributed organization design.
Makes Data Actionable
OrgBuilder has the capacity to synchronize massive data flows and keep corporate reorganization projects on track. The highly configurable interface for the software tool puts key metrics front and center for each user—while making it easy for leadership to monitor overall progress and steer projects back on course as needed.
Can Be Customized for Any Project
Whether they’re redesigning for growth, changing their operating model, or integrating two companies, clients can customize OrgBuilder to define which metrics to measure, who has access to which positions and which talent, how to measure progress toward corporate redesign goals, and more.
Prioritizes Data Security
The business consulting software tool prioritizes the secure retention and transmission of sensitive, personally identifiable data. OrgBuilder’s permissions model ensures that individual users have access only to the position or person records and fields they need in order to execute their own role in the redesign process.
Improves Talent-Selection Processes
OrgBuilder helps clients implement objective and transparent talent-selection processes that accelerate value creation while ensuring that employees are fairly treated. By giving leaders an intuitive interface for designing and staffing teams, OrgBuilder increases the visibility, transparency, and value delivery of the entire talent-selection process.
Impact
OrgBuilder in Action
Asia-Pacific Bank Captures $300 Million in Savings with OrgBuilder
A major Asia-Pacific bank embarked on a large-scale transformation in pursuit of ambitious cost-efficiency goals. Using OrgBuilder to help digitize and automate its talent-selection process, the bank achieved more than $300 million in savings within the first year and established a roadmap to capture $1 billion in savings within three years. HR efficiency and accuracy was also boosted; for example, tenure calculation requests could now be completed in just ten seconds—with 95% fewer errors.
$300 million
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OrgBuilder Enables Massive Corporate Reorganization in Six Months
BCG partnered with a technology services company that doubled in size through an acquisition, creating the need to integrate tens of thousands of positions while moving to a new operating model. With the power of OrgBuilder, the client completed the operating-model shift and detailed organization redesign in just six months, delivering $100 million in labor run-rate savings.
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