Organization Designer + Researcher
What is organization design? From our perspective, organization design aligns the stakeholders and their needs with the organization's strategy, systems, and comprehensive scorecard. These four "cornerstones" are held together by the culture (values, symbols, rituals, and heroes) that support and bring the systems and strategy to "life." The …
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Some people say organizations don't exist because they're not material things but rather concepts or collections of concepts. However, there are many physical things or artifacts that communicate what an organization is and how it works. So if we think about an organization as information, then many artifacts represent the organization's …
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In this segment of The Everyday Innovator video podcast, Dr. Chad McAllister and I discuss growing up in silos and how alignment and integration is a key organization design concept. CHAD Designing the elements, like strategy, metrics, and the things you mentioned, make the organization the organization. I appreciate that you emphasize that …
This article is the third video excerpt from my interview with Business901 podcast and Joe Dager. In this segment, we cover key issues related to organizational learning and innovation. Ideally, organizational learning and innovation are complementary activities, each adding to the overall process of improvement. The ultimate purpose of learning is …
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