ODF + EODF December Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Is This a Moment for Strategic Hibernation? by Christopher Marquis, Harvard Business Review

• How to Build Organizational Resilience by John Carrier and colleagues, MIT Sloan Executive Education

• Hybrid work in retreat? Barely. by Ryan Pendell, Gallup

• Three Essentials for Making Better Choices by Ilia Tsetlin and Emre Soyer, INSEAD

• Polymorphic Organisations by Perry Timms

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ODF + EODF November Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• AI Transformation Is Not About Tech by Benedetto Conversano and Ville Satopaa, INSEAD Knowledge
• Strategy in the Age of AI by Saul Betmead de Chasteigner, Oxford Saïd Business School
• Six Shifts to Build the Agentic Organization of the Future by Sandra Durth and colleagues, McKinsey & Company
• The AI Reskilling Paradox: Slow Down to Get There Faster by Howard Yu and colleagues, IMD
• AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years by Ryan Pendell, Gallup

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ODF + EODF October Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Be a Better Decider by Wayne Borchardt and colleagues, Strategy & Business (PwC)
• Become an Octopus Organization by Jana Werner and Phil, Le-Brun, HBR
• Decoding Organizational Design: Insights from Professor John Joseph by John Joseph and Metin Sengul, Journal of Management / UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business
• How to Realise the Value of Being in the Office by Nadav Klein and Rachel Eva Lim, INSEAD Knowledge
• What Do Workers Really Want in a Leader? by Michael Blanding & Rebecca Ponce de Leon, UC Berkeley Haas

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ODF + EODF September Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Why You Need Systems Thinking Now by Tima Bansal and Julian Birkinshaw, Harvard Business Review
• How AI is Transforming HR by Elie Bechara and colleagues, INSEAD Knowledge
• Get Work Back on Track with Visual Management by Nelson Repenning and Donald Kieffer, MIT Sloan Management Review 
• Making Your Narrative About Organizational Design Change Stick by Herman Vantrappen and Frederic Wirtz, California Management Review
• Blog: ChatGPT: Built On All the Data in the World – Except What You Actually Need to Make Decisions by Nicolay Worren, Organization (Re)Design

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ODF + EODF July Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• How AI is Redefining Managerial Roles by Harvard Business Review Editors
• The AI Race through a Geopolitical Lens by Pushan Dutt, INSEAD Knowledge
• How to Scale GenAI in the Workplace by Michael Wade et al., MIT Sloan Management Review (sign-up for free to read the full article)
• Generative AI: The 21st-Century Power Play by Joe Atkinson et al., Strategy+Business
• AI-driven Organizational Design: Transforming How Companies Structure Teams by Damian Bramanis, Functionly

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ODF + EODF June Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation by Ivanka Visnjic et al., HBR
• What’s Inside the House: Is Org Design Derailing Your Foundation’s Strategy? by Justin Marcoux et al., Stanford Social Innovation Review
• People Follow Structure: How Less Hierarchy Changes the Workforce by Markus Reitzig and Kathrin Heiss, MIT Sloan Management Review (sign-up for free to read the full article)
• Can Org Design Help When ‘The Dignity of Work’ Is Shaken? A Guide for HR Leaders by Jill Barth, HR Executive
• Is Your Organization Creating Bad Leaders? by Ron Carucci, Fast Company

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ODF + EODF May Global OD Trends Conversation

This month’s newsletter articles included:

• Why Forming Diverse Teams is Harder in Uncertain Times by Anyi Ma et al., HBR
• How Successful Start-up Teams Allocate Roles by Balagopal Vissa, INSEAD Knowledge
• Why Pods Could Be the Future of Leadership and Organizational Design by Scott Hutcheson, Forbes
• Linking Organizational Design and Workforce Planning by Dhruv Patel et al., Deloitte Human Capital
• The Key Question When Organizing: How Do We Group Roles or Units? by Nicolay Worren, Organization (Re)Design

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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 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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