I have always believed that business performance depends above all on "work design", or how work is actually done by people. In a way, this is the foundation of what I have called People Centric Operations: designing the organization not around structures or tools, but around the flows of information, decision-making, and collaboration that support the activities of knowledge workers (People Centric Operations: adapting work and operations to knowledge workers).
You may think I'm stating the obvious, but it's something I've noticed frequently in my career: few managers and ultimately almost no...
Sometimes organizational decisions, beyond mere cosmetic changes, embody fundamental trends in the organization of work. The recent merger of the HR and IT departments at...
In many businesses, human resources are seen asisolated entities, focusing exclusively on talent management: recruitment, training and skills development. An approach which, while laudable,...
Some time ago, I had a sharp disagreement with someone about the advantages and disadvantages of formal organization and, beyond that, formalized operating procedures.
My interlocutor argued...