Target Operating Model Canvas

This simple, ready to use Target Operating Model Canvas template provides a structured and practical starting point for designing, visualizing, and aligning an organization’s future operating model across its core components, including organizational structure, processes, technologies, information flows, organizational culture, and organizational knowledge.

The PowerPoint based canvas template enables quick setup and disciplined operating model design, making it suitable for organizations of all sizes from focused functions and business units to large, complex organizations undergoing transformation, restructuring, or capability building.

When to use:
During strategy execution planning, operating model design or redesign, transformation programs, capability maturity assessments, or when aligning organizational capabilities with strategic objectives and execution requirements.

How to use:
Define the target organizational structure, key processes, enabling technologies, and information flows required to deliver strategy. Assess cultural and knowledge requirements, identify capability gaps between current and target states, and prioritize initiatives to transition toward the target operating model through cross functional design workshops.

Outcome:
Develop a clear, integrated, and execution ready target operating model that aligns structure, processes, people, technology, and information to enable effective strategy execution and future sustainable performance.