For over 25 years, Work Systems Affiliates has been helping business leaders manage a vast array of organizational upsets to achieve breakthrough productivity and profitability. Organizational upsets are an unavoidable aspect of the evolution of business.

As organizations grow and change, they encounter circumstances that challenge their ability to meet strategic goals. Work Systems helps companies meet and adapt to these challenges using our UPSET™ Model: Uniting People, Systems and Energy during Transition.

Our approach to creating sustainable competitive advantage and breakthrough performance is based on 4 fundamental principals of the UPSET^TM Model.

1. United people, aligned around key business goals, are the most powerful, valuable and indispensable asset of any organization.
2. Organizations are systems that are perfectly and uniquely designed to produce the results they are currently producing. If you don't like the results, change the system.
3. Organizational upsets are inevitable. However, when managed correctly, upsets are key contributors to the successful growth of a company.
4. Transitions or upsets produce energy, negative and otherwise, which creates a window of opportunity for transformation. Seize it!

Managing Organizational UPSET^TM

The type of organizational upset a company faces typically depends more on the particular phase of its development, the current economic environment and the life cycle phase of the industry in which it competes, than on the specific service or product it supplies.

Therefore, we like to discuss the value that we can bring to organizations in the context of the challenges they face rather than the products they make. The following are some areas of organizational upset that our clients confront and a brief overview of how we help manage the challenges to positively transform the organization.

Challenges of Rapid Growth

• Create flexible, scalable processes
• Communicate the vision
• Build common culture
• Get good people and keep them
• Build leadership capacity

Thriving in an Economic Downturn

• Conduct a “Business Viability Analysis”
• Evaluate financial strength and controls
• Improve financial liquidity
• Create a platform for renewed growth
• Re-energize the leadership team

Competing in Mature Markets

• Increase people productivity
• Maintain market share
• Create differentiation
• Re-engineer processes

Leveraging Mergers & Acquisitions

• Ensure “fit” through cultural due-diligence
• Conduct rapid integration and assimilation of resources
• Retain and realign people
• Develop “100 Day Plan”

Battling Increased Competition

• Create a customer driven organization
• Leverage product and process differentiation
• Reduce operating costs
• Encourage organizational innovation

Winning at the project game

• Make “High Performance Teams” the norm, not the exception
• Understand the project execution process
• Partner to create superior project performance
• Achieve cost, schedule and quality excellence