Please contact Bob Hamstra or Terry Ramus if you are interested in helping in this effort. While these components may work well in their intended vehicles, they are mismatched for working together. Yet there is a tendency for people to build organizations piecemeal as an amalgam of available parts when what they really need is a unified structure to create a total system. Even copying the best practices of other organizations typically falls flat. The lungs from the best penguin are inadequate when transplanted into a quarter horse.
Organizations are a series of complex, interrelated systems and processes.
They need to be designed for the performance of the organization as a whole, and be in keeping with its spirit. That requires defining and designing the organization as a whole before building and installing its component parts. Many businesses neglect to answer these questions as they start out, and so create an organization by default. Their initial focus is on getting customers and survival. Before they grow beyond what the founder can deal with personally they need to define and design their organization.