10 Principles of Organization Design
A 2014 Strategy& survey found that 42 percent of executives felt that their organization was not aligned with the strategy, and that parts of the organization resisted it or didn’t understand it. If that’s a familiar problem in your company, the principles in this article can help you develop an organization design that supports your most distinctive capabilities and supports your strategy more effectively.
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Content: Article | Authors: Bhushan Sethi, Gary L. Neilson, Jaime Estupiñán | Source: “strategy+business” | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Deep Talent, Vast Distances: Realizing the full value of global knowledge workers
Company leaders are often quick to acknowledge, even revere, the importance of human capital in their organizations. “Our growth depends on people” and similar sound bites echo through many CEO speeches and litter corporate homepages like the last refrain in a many-versed ballad. Yet, catchphrases and buzzwords offer little clarity when it comes to the ins and outs of building and keeping a workforce.
Content: Article | Authors: Bhushan Sethi, Frederick D. Miller, Ryan Alvanos, Vivek Sethia | Source: “Deloitte” | Subject: Human Resources
Global Operating Models for Managing Knowledge Work
Increasingly, companies are spreading “knowledge work” tasks – such as research and product development – overseas as a means to increase competitiveness, reduce costs, access new talent pools and establish a presence in emerging markets. Yet many struggle to achieve the performance to which they aspire.
This paper describes how a structured approach for understanding the link between decision-making (how work is governed) and workflow (how … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Bhushan Sethi, Frederick D. Miller, Vivek Sethia | Source: “Deloitte” | Subjects: International, Knowledge Management