Five OD Things N° 15
An unreasonable amount of meetings; balconies; imaginary time savings; the office spreadsheet person; dinner, approximately 1905.
Clay Parker Jones
I lead Organizational Design at Airbnb. Previously: August, Undercurrent.
Design Briefs N° 2
Design in the dumps, Emeco v. Zara, and London skyline volumes
Reducing micro-teams at Uber
Uber's layoff announcement reveals a *very natural* structural problem: teams of one or two.
UPS reorganizes...around a network?
UPS thinks the trucks, aircraft and hubs should be managed as one system, even when the businesses using them have separate owners.
Make room for maintenance
Eskom fixed more of the grid by taking more of it offline.
Project OT: Okay, Transformation?
Suddenly everyone is thinking about how organizations will be designed in the future. Almost nobody seems to be thinking about how to get from here to there.
AI can redesign a job without doing any of it
I've tried to keep this summary as brief as possible, and this is a theoretical model, so if anything's not clear here let's discuss in the comments, k?
Divisions Are Companies in Waiting
Unilever made its businesses easier to run. It also made them easier to leave.
The Fabricated Front
What can we learn from how people feel about AI output?
Target reallocates from center to edge
A new beat for Radar: "Did it work?" where we cover org changes a few quarters after they've been announced, and look at the numbers.
The first jobs eliminated by AI might be empty
Employment can shrink one vacancy at a time.
Openness drives profitability
A hot one from the "I'm right and you're wrong" beat (sorry for the clickbait headline, but please click