Organizational design for producing start-ups

Start-ups face the challenge to develop their product or service at the same time as they seek to build their organizational structure and processes. Existing approaches to organizational design focus on the redesign of established structures of a company. Therefore, a prerequisite for the application of existing approaches are structures and mature processes, which makes them inapplicable in a start-up context. One of the key challenges is the right time to redesign. In this paper, we present an approach to systematically identify the need for adaption of the organizational structure based on characteristic indicators, which are resources, organizational structure and process organization.