Research based advice for designing more effective organizations
More collaboration – and better collaboration - is seen by many as a key requirement for business success. Open a recent leadership book or an issue of Harvard Business Review, and you will see that this topic is very much in vogue right now. Not … [Continue reading]
The organization of the future will be (...) like a Calder mobile, with a thin wire of control, and with modules hanging down of various shapes and colors, each of which is capable of twisting in the wind as the wind changes. And each of which is … [Continue reading]
A few weeks ago, I asked some managers that I know about the topics they would like to read about on this blog. Several responded that they were curious about how to better design and manage matrix organizations. This is not a new topic – but it … [Continue reading]
The second meeting of the European Organisation Design Forum (EODF) took place on May 10-12. It was hosted by Nestlé at their headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. The overall theme was “dealing with dilemmas in organization design”. We explored … [Continue reading]
What you see above is an incubator made from car parts. The concept was developed by Design the Matters, a non-profit organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The key purpose is to help reduce the number of pre-term babies that die … [Continue reading]