We often "throw around" vague words like "successful, effective, and great," but what do these words really mean? When it comes to organizations, what is "great"? Some have defined "great" as stock price over the years compared to other similar …
Why is Organization Design Important? – Part 1
From our perspective, organizational design aligns stakeholders' 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 …
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What is Organization Design? – Part 2
Some people say organizations don't exist because they're not material things but rather concepts or collections of concepts. However, many physical things or artifacts communicate what an organization is and how it works. So, if we think about an …
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Organization Design: Alignment – Part 3
In this segment of The Everyday Innovator video podcast, Dr. Chad McAllister and I discuss growing up in silos and how alignment and integration are key organizational design concepts. CHAD Designing elements like strategy, metrics, and what …
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Three Challenges
Systems Thinking The first challenge is developing a systems perspective and understanding of dynamic systems. We’ve talked about this for over 50 years, yet we still don’t teach it in most business schools. We train people in business schools in …
Three Keys to Success
Tenacity One of the most significant issues for success is tenacity. One of the things that we found is that designing organizations is, first of all, never done. Even for organizations that develop a great design and create high performance, …
Benefits of Better Organization Design
Fewer Fires I think the first tangible benefit is you have fewer fires to put out. Often, we spend much of our executive time putting out fires. Working issues between those silos that got "mucked up" because we don't have a well-oiled process or …
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Stakeholders – What’s in it for them?
Chad - Like the title of your book, [Re]Create the Organization You Really Want, I see a key benefit is making the organization you want to work in, and everyone else wants to work in. WIIFM John - That's the "what's in it really for me," or …
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Trial and Error
CHAD - I know you’ve listened to the podcast some, you know I love innovation quotes, so I asked you to bring one too. What’s the quote you have for us? JOHN - So I had to bring a different one this time, and I thought the one that fit what we …
