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Boardmember Blog – Data Futures

Stuart Wigham is a boardmember of ODF from Birmingham, UK:   I come here with a perennial question, one that is impossible to answer and yet intoxicating when one starts to consider the possibilities....

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Boardmember Blog – Structure and Strategy: A Symbiotic Relationship

Structure and Strategy: A Symbiotic Relationship  by Wendy Helmkamp is a boardmember of ODF from West Hartford, CT       In 2010, I wrote about “Structure as Strategy,” a thought piece published by my...

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Boardmember Blog – Redesigning “Roles”

Evan Leonard is a boardmember from Denver, Colorado: Did you know that most employees have 5 or more roles in your organization and not just the single one given by their “title”? Every time two people...

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Boardmember Blog – To Assure Success, Predict Failure

Tom Jasinski is a boardmember (departing at the end of August after serving for six years) from New York:   To Assure Success, Predict Failure In Organization Design we spend a lot of time evolving,...

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Boardmember Blog – I want to operate in one of these businesses I’ve helped...

I’ve been an internal organization design consultant for the last five years at Humana, a Fortune 100 insurance/well-being company with 45,000+ associates.  There is just a little bit of change...

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Boardmember Blog – Wondering about organization design in the India context ....

Three months into a one-year assignment in India for my organization, a leader in the wireless space, has left me wondering about organization design in the India context. A quick Google search on...

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Boardmember Blog: What are some of the processes that organization design...

What work process does organization design touch? Several of the Organization Design Forum Board members were having dinner with a Dr. Bennett of Queens University in North Carolina. We were explaining...

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Boardmember Blog: Individuality and Diversity, are design issues

Individuality and Diversity, are design issues.   by Stuart Wigham, ODF & EODF Boardmember The inspiration for this blog comes from an unlikely place. A friend of mine shared a TedX talk with me....

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Boardmember Blog: What constitutes the “universe” of org design?

A question posted by Jude Udedibia, ODF Boardmember . . . What constitutes the “universe” of org design? Since the first conversation on this topic back in the fall of 2013, I have given it further...

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Boardmember Blog: Jay Galbraith and ODF, a memory and tribute

Jay Galbraith and ODF, a memory and tribute I always look forward to the Organization Design Forum (ODF) Conference, but this year I am particularly anticipating being in my professional home.  We have...

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Boardmember Blog: Org Design and Agile Software. . .sufficiently aware of...

Organization Design and Agile Software. . . At the ODF 2013 conference in Denver, Evan Leonard and I presented a session introducing the philosophy, principles and practices underlying Agile software...

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Boardmember Blog: Think Small for Big Change

Think Small for Big Change Org Designers know that big change programs are usually less effective than many small, self-organizing actions for producing significant and sustained change (just think of...

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Boardmember Blog: Equifinality

Have you ever come across a concept that immediately puts ideas you may have been struggling with into complete perspective, so much so that your entire body breathes a sigh of relief? This happened to...

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Boardmember Blog: Get the Balance Right

Get the Balance Right “It’s more important to get a quality solution than making sure everyone is aligned around it.” A senior leader I work with said this to me recently as we discussed a major...

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Are You A New Leader? Four “Must Do’s” To Thrive! by Bill Zybach

Are you initiating a new design project, starting a new team, leading a department or organization? My favorite book for new leaders is “Lost in Transition: How Business Leaders Can Successfully Take...

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Are You A New Leader? Four “Must Do’s” To Thrive! by Bill Zybach

Are you initiating a new design project, starting a new team, leading a department or organization? My favorite book for new leaders is “Lost in Transition: How Business Leaders Can Successfully Take...

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One Direction, Multiple Directions? Does it matter?

This is a new beginning for ODF, our new website, consistent, clearer, and cleaner. This new start focused my attention on the question of where are we in the Organization Design world? In the four...

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Designing for creative tension . . .

Designing for creative tension . . . What constitutes healthy, creative tension in an organization? I’ve been pondering this question for some time not really understanding what the question was really...

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. . . assumptions about organization structure and hierarchy did not...

A previous LinkedIn post by fellow ODF Board member, Stuart Wigham, about challenging one’s own perspective, got me thinking. As Stuart noted, “Perspective is everything, being away from your home...

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