Feb 21, 2015 | Organizational Design
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)...
Jan 5, 2015 | Organizational Design
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...
Nov 17, 2014 | Organizational Design
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...
Aug 5, 2014 | Organizational Design
There is the official list of policies and procedures and then there is the unofficial approach. The work around is celebrated in many organization but one of the unintended consequences is that if the work around was used because a problem needed to be addressed, the...
Apr 7, 2014 | Organizational Design
I was minding my own business last week when my neighbourhood was occupied by that army of white panel trucks, orange pylons, snaking cables, and assorted hangers on that are all the tell-tale signs of a movie-shoot in progress. I can’t lie. We weren’t...
Mar 11, 2014 | Org Charts, Organizational Design
In a recent blog post Jessica Miller-Merrill says “I am dying for a customizable and easy to use corporate org charts solution that integrates with my HRIS and other HR technologies”.. Music to our ears at Organimi, since this is what we do. But we are...