Reinventing the wheel—this well-worn phrase describes one of the oldest of human follies: undertaking a project or activity without tapping into the knowledge that already exists within a culture or ...

Organizational design is the process of creating the hierarchy within a company. The six elements of organizational design help business leaders establish the company departments, chain of command and ...

In 2013, Bill Drayton published an SSIR article called “A Team of Teams World.” Drayton, the founder and current chair of Ashoka, painted a picture of an emerging future in which shifts in how people ...

We’ve heard it over and over again. Companies must be agile in order to innovate. They need to make quick decisions in order to survive. “To be a great learning organization, speed is not a virtue,” ...

Though a company's top management must consider many issues when designing an organization's structure, they all relate to only a few design elements. Designers start with the most basic issue of a ...

New Deloitte Global Human Capital Research shows that organizations today must work hard to create a meaningful, humanistic work environment to drive engagement, performance, and a magnetic attraction ...

It’s time all organizations make what could be the most strategic decision in decades regarding organizational structure: Move the learning and talent development functions out from under the human ...

David Garvin and Amy Edmonson, Harvard Business School professors and coauthors of the HBR article “Is Yours a Learning Organization?” Featured Guests: David Garvin and Amy Edmonson, Harvard Business ...