The terms "organization design" and "organization development" are often conflated and attributed to the same meaning in the corporate world. After all, both look to raise performance and lower costs.

Though a company's top management must consider many issues when designing an organization's structure, they all relate to only a few design elements. Designers start with the most basic issue of a ...

Most business people are familiar with organizational charts that show who reports to whom in a company. Those people in the boxes at the top of the chart are those presumed to have the most power.

Kunisch, Sven, Markus Menz, and David J. Collis. "Corporate Headquarters in the Twenty-first Century: An Organization Design Perspective." Art. 22. Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020): 1–32.

In the business literature about crisis and disaster management, there’s a tremendous focus on topics like leadership, communications, and planning. Security personnel and those tasked with making ...

The diginomica network debate: AI is inverting the traditional pyramid shape of organizations. Rethinking the structure for this shape shift requires CIOs, peers and society to engage in a tough ...

College curricula lay the foundations to master the basics of a field, while organizations and extracurricular experiences offer opportunities to persistently pursue connections to bridge the gap ...

In today’s highly competitive business environment, differentiation is often critical to success. For many leaders, it tops the list of concerns: Nearly 40% of CEOs surveyed for the University of ...

No one formula exists for designing a customer experience organization. Many considerations do, however. I’ve heard from countless CX executives, both seasoned and new, about how much more successful ...