ODF + EODF February Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• What Comes After DEI by Lily Zheng, HBR

• Why EY Treats Loneliness As An Inclusion Issue by Michelle Peng, Time

• What Strong Organizations Know About DEI by Undraye Howard, Stanford Social Innovation Review

• Corporate DEI Isn’t Dead. But What Will It Look Like In 2025? by Jen Colletta, HR Executive

• Bonus content: Podcast @ the World Economic Forum in Davos: What Does It Take to Thrive in an Uncertain World? by Sarah von Fischer, PwC

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ODF + EODF January Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• How to Marry Process Management and AI by Thomas Davenport and Thomas Redman, HBR
• Four Ways GenAI Can Give You Competitive Edge by Anton Ovchinnikov et al., INSEAD Knowledge
• Bring Your Own AI: How to Balance Risks and Innovation by Nick van der Meulen and Barbara Wixom, MIT Sloan Management Review
• AI Will Evole Into an Organizational Strategy for All by Ethan Mollick, WIRED
• Managerial Hierarchy in AI-Driven Organizations by Oliver Baumann and Brian Wu, Journal of Organization Design

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ODF + EODF December Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• 5 Types of Stories Leaders Need to Tell by Nick Westergaard, HBR
• How to Dismantle Hierarchies in Teams by Michael Lee, INSEAD Knowledge
• Can Design Thinking Succeed in Your Organization? by David Dunne and colleagues, MIT SMR (sign up for free to read full article)
• Storytelling and Organisation Design by Naomi Stanford
• Are Flat Organizations More Human? by Nicolay Worren

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ODF + EODF November Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Scaling Up Transformational Innovations by Peter Koen and colleagues, HBR
• The Role of HR in Driving Work Transformation by Bill MacKenzie and colleagues, Willis Towers Watson
• Consumer Product Companies, Your Strategy Evolves, So Why Doesn’t Your Organization? by Joost Spits and colleagues, Bain & Company
• Unleashing Competitive Advantage: The Power of a Skills-led Organisation by Matthew Yerbury, KPMG
• Sociotechnical Systems Theory by Business Enterprising

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ODF + EODF October Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Reimagining Work as a Product by Eric Anicich and Dart Lindsley, HBR
• Step Out of the Lab by Ithai Stern, INSEAD Knowledge
• How Digital Natives are Influencing Traditional Organizational Design by Matt Wall, EY Insights
• How Tessa Boshoff Transformed Wall Street English by Millicent Machell, HR Magazine
• Agility and Guardrails: What Toyota Learned by Nick van der Meulen, MIT Sloan Management Review (video and article)
• Supplementary Reading: In the Harvard Business Review article Where Data-Driven Decision-Making Can Go Wrong – Five pitfalls to avoid, Michael Luca and Amy Edmondson

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ODF + EODF September Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Why Multibusiness Strategies Fail and How to Make Them Succeed by Bharat Anand and David Collis, HBR
• Employees See Bias in the Workplace. Their Bosses Don’t. by Maryam Kouchaki, Kellogg Insight
• What is Digital-twin Technology? by McKinsey & Company
• The Laws of Organisation Design by Sergio Caredda
• Complete Guide to Startup Organisational Design and Leveling Chart?  by Heather Doshay, SignalFire

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ODF + EODF August Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• How to Set Transformation Targets That Actually Drive Change by Michael Mankins, HBR
• Google Exec Shares the Key to ROI on Generative AI by Megan Poinski, Forbes
• How Teaming Supercharges Collaboration by Stanislav Shekshnia and colleagues, INSEAD Knowledge
• A Co-creative Initiative Towards Open Data for Sustainable Business Practices by Ebba Fahlgren and colleagues, California Management Review
• Should You Include Your AI Agent on the Organisation Chart? by Nicolay Worren, Organization (Re)design

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ODF + EODF July Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• AI Success Depends on Tackling “Process Debt” by Sundar Subramanian and Mohib Yousufani, HBR

• Can Your Company Do Hybrid Better? by Benjamin Friedrich, Kellogg Insight

• Will AI Help or Hurt Sustainability? Yes by Andrew Winston, MIT Sloan Management Review (sign up for free to access)

• The Six Dimensions of Winning Teams by Alain Goudsmet and colleagues, INSEAD Knowledge

• Enacting Decentralized Authority: The Practices and Limits of Moving Beyond Hierarchy by Micheal Lee, Administrative Science Quarterly

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ODF + EODF June Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Leaders Need to Reframe the Return-to-office Conversation by Mark Mortensen and Amy Edmondson, HBR
• Are Your Individual Contributors Feeling Isolated? by Florian Zettelmeyer, Kellogg Insight
• Finding a Circular Strategy to Fit Your Business Model by Samsurin Welch and Khaled Soufani, MIT Sloan Management Review
• Model Makeover: Turning a Telco Into a Customer-centric Techno by Duarte Begonha and colleagues, McKinsey & Company
• The Big Power of Small Goals by Nele Van Buggenhout and Jamie Ellis, Strategy+Business

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ODF + EODF April Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• The Challenges of Becoming a Less Hierarchical Company, by Eric Anicich and colleagues, HBR
• Leading the AI-driven Organization, by Beth Stackpole, MIT Sloan
• How Utopian Thinking Can Inspire Business Leaders, by Marc Le Menestrel, INSEAD Knowledge
• How Do You Know if Your Hybrid Approach is Working? by Ella Overshott, HRZone
• Ivy Global’s Workplace Revolution: Navigating Growth without Managers, by Jorn van der Schaaf, Corporate Rebels

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ODF + EODF March Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Your Organisation Isn’t Designed to Work with GenAI by Paul Baier, David DeLallo and John Sviokla, HBR
• Business Case for Sustainability: The Stakeholder Perspective by Paul Baier, INSEAD Knowledge
• How Dynamic Work Design Can Prevent Overload by Paul Baier, MIT Sloan School of Management
• When People Thrive, Business Thrives: The Case for Human Sustainability by Sue Cantrell and colleagues, Deloitte Insights
• The Emerging Concept of the Human-Centered Organization: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature by Maya Townsend and Georges Romme, Humanistic Management Journal (Academic article)

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