New framework connects organizational structure with revenue growth, operational efficiency, synergy capture, AI, automation and measurable business performance

TAMPA, FL, UNITED STATES, September 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Stonehill, a strategy and innovation consultancy, today announced the release of its MODERN™ Organizational Design Methodology, a proprietary approach designed to help CEOs, private equity firms and management teams build organizations around how work actually gets done and the value the business is expected to create.

The new methodology expands Stonehill's Organizational Design Consulting capabilities and challenges the traditional approach to organizational design, which often begins with reporting relationships, organizational charts and span-of-control benchmarks. Instead, Stonehill begins by defining how the business creates value, establishing clear ownership and measurable performance expectations, and then designing the organizational structure required to deliver those outcomes.

The approach is detailed in Stonehill's new white paper, “Earning the Org Chart: A Value-Creation Approach to Organizational Design.”

“An organizational chart should be the result of organizational design, not the starting point,” said Doug Pace, CEO of Stonehill. “We believe you first need to understand how the business works, determine who owns the outcomes and how those outcomes will be measured, and then design the organization around those requirements. Once you have that design, you can use AI, automation and process improvement to enhance it and quantitative modeling to determine whether it can actually deliver the expected results.”

The Stonehill MODERN™ Organizational Design Methodology consists of six interconnected stages:

MAP — Define the operational journey and understand how work, decisions and value move across the enterprise. Stonehill's broader Process Improvement capabilities support this work by examining workflows, handoffs, bottlenecks and opportunities to improve how work gets done.

OWN — Establish cascading ownership, responsibilities, decision rights and measurable KPIs that connect enterprise objectives with functional, team and individual performance.

DESIGN — Create the roles, capabilities, organizational structure, reporting relationships, management layers, spans of control and matrix responsibilities required to execute the work.

ENHANCE — Improve the organization through process redesign, artificial intelligence, automation and technology to increase productivity, scalability and operating performance. Stonehill's Technology, Analytics & AI practice works with organizations to identify and deploy technology and AI opportunities tied to measurable business outcomes.

RENDER — Build a quantitative representation of the organization and pressure-test it against revenue, workload, capacity, headcount, cost, synergy and EBITDA assumptions.

NAVIGATE — Implement the future organization through leadership alignment, talent decisions, communications, governance, training, technology adoption and Change Management.

The methodology is designed to connect organizational decisions directly to enterprise value. For growth-oriented companies, the approach can help determine whether commercial and operational capacity is sufficient to achieve revenue objectives. For companies undergoing mergers and acquisitions, it can identify overlapping responsibilities, duplicate capabilities and opportunities to accelerate synergy realization. For companies seeking margin improvement, the methodology evaluates where work can be eliminated, simplified, standardized, centralized, automated or augmented through AI.

These principles are particularly relevant to Stonehill's work with private equity firms and portfolio companies, where organizational design, synergy realization and operating-model improvement can directly influence the value-creation thesis.

A distinguishing component of MODERN™ is Stonehill's Render stage, which uses operational KPIs and business assumptions to quantitatively pressure-test the proposed organization.

Rather than relying solely on organizational benchmarks, Stonehill can model relationships between business performance and organizational requirements. Depending on the business, this can include translating revenue and demand into workload, capacity, automation requirements, roles, FTEs, management load and organizational cost.

“We want management teams to be able to demonstrate why an organization should look the way it does,” Pace said. “If a company expects significant growth, we should be able to determine whether the organization has the capacity to support it. If an acquisition has a synergy commitment, we should be able to see where those savings are reflected. And if AI and automation are expected to improve productivity, those assumptions should ultimately show up in the organizational model and financial performance.”

The MODERN™ methodology is particularly applicable to rapidly growing businesses, private equity portfolio companies, acquisitive organizations, post-merger integrations, corporate restructurings, operating-model transformations and companies seeking to improve management effectiveness and scalability.

For acquisitive companies, MODERN™ also complements Stonehill's Post-Merger Integration capabilities, helping organizations connect future-state organizational design with synergy capture, process integration, technology consolidation and long-term value realization.

About Stonehill
Stonehill is a nationally recognized strategy and innovation consultancy serving Fortune 1000 companies, private equity, and government clients. The firm specializes in helping organizations navigate their most complex and sensitive challenges, combining design thinking, business strategy, and advanced analytics to identify opportunity, create change, and accelerate growth. Known for handling its clients’ boldest ideas, Stonehill has facilitated billions of dollars in mergers and delivered solutions that have touched millions of lives. For more information, visit stonehillinnovation.com.

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Julie Stollings
Stonehill Innovation
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