Having mapped out the relationships and the heart of the design approach, key aspects of the entity being designed needs to be considered. Getting the right attitudes and culture into an organisation, and establishing the correct organisational structure principles, avoids the costly issues of change management at a later stage. There is a large body of current ideology associated with manufacturing and other areas within the organisation, and it is important that the company is imbued with best practices in these areas from an early stage. Installing information systems and setting up organisational structures is also best undertaken as early as possible. Putting full scale implementations of systems into a very small organisation may be impractical, but the important task is to ensure that no action is taken which will make future implementations of these systems unduly difficult as the business grows.

Inspec keywords: design engineering; management of change; management information systems; organisational aspects

Other keywords: information system; organisational culture; internal business design; organisational structure principles; change management

Subjects: Organisational aspects