An X-ray of your company's organizational efficiency in days
A proprietary agentic solution that reads your structure, understands the nature of each role and applies span-of-control rules to surface optimization opportunities and correct the imbalances that stall your strategy.
Many companies treat structure as something fixed, almost immutable. But it should evolve alongside strategy, and manual diagnosis can't keep up.
When structure fails to keep pace with growth, the side effects show up. Explore the four forces that erode efficiency.
Layers that multiply without clarity
New hierarchical levels emerge without rationale, lengthening the path to decision and pulling direction away from execution. Decisions take too long to reach where they're needed.
Roles that overlap
Career tracks multiply and positions are created to justify leadership roles rather than to generate value. The structure grows with no value creation behind it.
Span off the benchmark
Managers with too many reports get overloaded, while micro-areas with too few reports fragment the business. Without a proper benchmark, the imbalance goes unnoticed.
Manual, slow and reactive diagnosis
Done by hand, the diagnosis depends on a herculean effort or a months-long project, and it can't keep up with how fast structure changes. Adjustment becomes a reaction, not a strategy.
And now there's a new lever accelerating this shift. As AI advances, the role of managers is changing and agents begin to work alongside people, reshaping how work gets done. AI agents themselves reconfigure span and layers, making structural review even more urgent and recurring.
From your people base to an X-ray of organizational efficiency, what used to take months, in a week.
A proprietary agentic solution runs the span-and-layers analysis end to end. You spend less time compiling data and more time deciding. Beyond flagging imbalances, it helps ensure the structure matches the strategy the business needs, and organizations with fewer layers decide faster and innovate in shorter cycles.
More efficiency in the analysis, more precision in the decision.
A report in four views
From a simple dataset, we deliver an X-ray of your company's organizational efficiency.
Span & Layers overview
A macro reading of organizational efficiency, applying the EloGroup method.
Imbalance identification
The major structural imbalances by role and by layer, to see where the structure diverges.
Saving potential
Where the biggest opportunities are, enabled by the optional cost field.
optional cost fieldMarket comparison
Where your company stands, by sector, against benchmarks from EloGroup's experience.
A proprietary agentic solution that goes beyond the magic number
What sets us apart is not a single span benchmark. The solution reads the nature of each role's activities (standardization, geographic dispersion, degree of specialization and autonomy, intensity of interaction and decision profile) and classifies roles and leadership into structural archetypes, each with its own span and layers benchmark. That's how the assessment pinpoints, with precision, where the structure diverges from what the strategy requires, and corrects the imbalance.
We help organizations find that balance with depth of analysis, organizational sensitivity and a methodology proven across dozens of projects.
Request my assessmentA simple dataset is enough*
The assessment runs on just a few pieces of information, with very low complexity. Four required fields are all it takes.
* The dataset must be complete and accurate, covering all employees and all hierarchical levels, with the top of the hierarchy identified. With that, we deliver the assessment in days.
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