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Hooked On Org Charts: Organizational Design and the Choice Architects
Are You Getting Hooked? It is an age old truism that when it comes to kids, and the choices they make, parents will always find things to worry about. I recall, for example, from my own (pre-children, pre-web, pre-mobile, pre-Internet-of-everything)...
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Snow Days and Work Life Haze I woke up very early this morning, the day after an amazing Super Bowl Sunday, to see that another snowmaggedon had descended on Toronto. In a city so large that a few centimeters of snow can create a cascading series of disasters, getting...
read moreLean, Mean and Moral: Org Charts, Robots and You
The Organimi blog explores issues relating to organizational design, the changing nature of work, and the impact of technology in the workplace. What's Going Down Around Here? Workplace Version How long do you think it will be before you see an org chart - like the...
read moreRemote Control: Organizational Design For Virtual Teams
Imagine the new year fifteen years from now, in 2030, when today's huge downtown office skyscrapers in some of the world's largest cities have been recycled into mixed use commercial and residential condominium complexes.....to deal with the vast surplus capacity of...
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In Diffusion Of Innovations (1962) sociologist and innovation theorist Everett Rogers explored how new ideas and technologies are spread. His work, re-published many times since, established some of the building blocks of the language of innovation we still use...
read moreRetail Org Charts, Change Architects, The New HR
Most of you are likely familiar with the catch phrase "Clean Up In Aisle 5"....used colloquially to describe any sort of mess in progress and in need of some attention. I was thinking about that expression between episodes of Dating Naked and The Mindy Project ....all...
read moreSurvey Says? Use Org Charts To Gauge Employee Engagement
Some of us are old enough to remember Richard Wagner, the original host of the long-running TV game show Family Feud. (Some of you might even remember his earlier stint on Hogan's Heroes). Richard's signature line on "The Feud" - a show where competing families...
read moreOrg Charts Without Borders: Organizing Virtual Teams For Humanitarian Causes
Whether you are thinking Ebola, independence votes in Scotland or Catalonia, or the current fighting under way in eastern Ukraine and western Iraq, we live in a world of uncertainty. Things can change fast; and unpredictability seems to be a fact of life, as these and...
read moreIs Your Org Chart Thick Or Thin?
As the summer draws to a close we were drawn to a blog post this week by Brook Manville on HBR – You Need A Community, Not A Network As Manville notes, “you can’t mobilize people to collaborate and create something of lasting value simply by connecting them via the...
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Getting More From Your Org Charts: White Boards and Post-It Notes
At Organimi we're keen to get as much user feedback as we can. We ask about the challenges you are facing in creating and using org charts when you create your accounts. And we appreciate the fact that so many of you provide it. We encourage people to complete user...
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