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.

How do you make sure you discover the next Tony Fadell, who is already on your team? With a permissionless organization. The advent of machine learning and AI is allowing more companies to have the ...

The 1996 horror movie Scream has long been famous for its twist: As the protagonist prepares diligently to defend against threats from the outside, it turns out the killer is already inside the house.

For most companies, organization design could be seen as an oxymoron: Organizational structures rarely arise from systematic and planned intervention. They tend to evolve and emerge over time in ...

If you don't design an organizational structure, you'll end up with one anyway. Organizational structure happens at every company, either by conscious choice or unconscious evolution. Conscious choice ...

Growth and change can take business leaders by surprise. As opportunities to grow a business emerge, it's easy and tempting to begin acting quickly before fully considering how your business can and ...

To thrive in today’s rapidly changing, global, dynamic business environment characterized by constant change and disruption, organizations must be able to adapt and innovate to maintain their ...

A global electronics manufacturer seemed to live in a perpetual state of re-organization. Introducing a new line of communication devices for the Asian market required reorienting its sales, marketing ...

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. Below is an edited version ...

When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and ...

A global electronics manufacturer seemed to live in a perpetual state of reorganization. A new line of communication devices for the Asian market required reorienting its sales, marketing and support ...