9 Posts found for Author: Gillis Jonk

It has been proven time and again that single organizations cannot really maintain a focus on being extremely cost efficient, innovative, and customer centric simultaneously. Acknowledging this implies organizing in teams that are small enough to have a single core objective, which defines their culture and ways of working. 

It’s important to distinguish between:

• Delivery teams. These manage specific assets and resources via focused organizational and leadership

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Content: Quotation | Authors: Gillis Jonk, Johan C. Aurik | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The last century of organization design can be summarized as a mostly incomplete struggle to escape the productivity stronghold and adapt to doing everything equally well, from imagining future demand opportunities to delivering optimum value—plus everything in between.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Gillis Jonk, Johan C. Aurik | Source: Kearney | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Ronald Coase theorized that as transaction costs come down, so does the need for companies to keep all parts of their value chains in-house. Time has proven Coase right several times over: every company today not only outsources, insources, partners, platforms, co-brands, co-develops, co-innovates, and licenses like there is no tomorrow, every technology company and start-up aspires to provide its offerings on-demand or as-a-service.

As a result, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Gillis Jonk, Johan C. Aurik | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Most organizations are set up for productivity and predictability. However, in today’s environment, where volatility and opportunity reign, this seems counterintuitive at best.

As the saying goes, it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks, even if you have the best leadership and capabilities at your disposal. But everything we are seeing today, along with certain shifts that we have been tracking for some years, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Gillis Jonk, Johan C. Aurik | Source: Kearney | Subject: Organizational Behavior

There are many excellent concepts, recipes, and frameworks for dealing with an individual, strategically disruptive phenomenon, but no overriding framework to pull it all together. […] Every time a new phenomenon appears, strategy formulation becomes a bit more complex as more factors must be considered simultaneously, further eroding the chance for strategy to step in as a guiding force in the competitive maelstrom. There is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Gillis Jonk, Johan Aurik, Martin Fabel | Source: Kearney | Subject: Strategy

Research shows that motivation works very differently for mechanical tasks versus tasks that require even minimal cognitive efforts. Mechanical tasks can be motivated by money. But this is not true for cognitive tasks where motivating factors include autonomy (having some say about the outcome), mastery (having a sense of personal growth), and purpose (having a sense of meaning). These are all achieved by giving people … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Gillis Jonk, Johan Aurik, Martin Fabel | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

From The Art of War to The War for Talent, strategy has been evolving for centuries. What we have learned in the past 2,500 years is highlighted here—not only where strategy began but also why it is on the verge of reclaiming its rightful place in history.

Content: Article | Authors: Gillis Jonk, Johan Aurik, Martin Fabel | Source: Kearney | Subject: Strategy

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The easy days of the pure SBU are gone as the world continues to turn into a modular one of cross-unit synergies, outsourcing and strategic alliances. This rotation means more companies must perform a balancing act-breaking apart value chains while still making sure the new interfaces fit with the corporate strategy.

Content: Article | Author: Gillis Jonk | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior