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Be sure to populate your redesign team with the right people

Populate Your Redesign Team with the Right People

Having a strong team in place can make the difference in achieving a successful organization redesign. These tips can help you determine what characteristics to look for in redesign team members.

Henry Ford can teach us about organization design

What Henry Ford Can Teach Us About Organization Design

Learn how automotive innovator Henry Ford followed organization design principles to build an automobile company that dominated its era and helped shape modern business practices.

Avoid the trap of groupthink in organization design

Avoiding the Trap of Groupthink in Organization Design

Groupthink can have a detrimental effects on the decision making process. Learn how leaders can help their teams challenge assumptions and conventional thinking to reach better business outcomes.

Mapping the route to organization redesign success.

Map Your Route to Organization Redesign Success

A successful organization design begins with clear objectives and outcomes. Defining where you want to go up front helps you better define how you will reach your end goal.

Team using design principles to make better organization alignment decisions

Use Design Principles For Better Organization Alignment Decisions

Leaders can be overwhelmed by the number of decisions they must make to move forward. Agreeing on common organization design principles in advance can streamline the process for making critical decisions in the future.

Purpose-driven organization design professionals

Designing a Purpose-Driven Organization

A purpose-driven organization can provide unique competitive advantages that benefit employees and customers alike. Learn how you can take advantage of the intrinsic value this kind of organization offers by aligning purpose with profits.

Alignment leaders improving the odds of a successful organization redesign

Improving the Odds of a Successful Organization Redesign

Developing a carefully thought out plan of action before embarking on an organization design will help ensure success and avoid a drawn-out process.

Organization design team members embed empathy using design thinking techniques.

Design Thinking: 4 Ways to Embed Empathy Into Organization Design

Using design thinking techniques such as interviews, persona profiles, empathy exercises and storytelling will allow teams to design an organization that meets their customers’ needs.

Organization design team rethinking customer transactions for a virtual environment

Rethinking Customer Transactions for a Virtual Environment

Interacting with customers in a virtual environment has become the new normal. Businesses can thrive by using organization design tools and principles to redesign their customer transactions for a virtual world.

Learning agility is the key to building a great team

Learning Agility: Key to Building a Great Team

Building an organization design team? Evaluate candidates’ “learning agility” – their ability to master new skills and find new solutions.