Regarding Platforms
Why internal and external platforms will change the way we organize for the better.
Transformation
Large-scale organizational change: what it really takes, and why so much of what gets called "transformation" isn't transformational.
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Permission to Move
The organizations that win with AI won't be the ones with the best models or the biggest budgets, although those things will help. They'll be the ones where permission isn't something you ask for. The ones where permission is baked into how the system already works.
Nestlé Is Eating Itself (On Purpose)
Nestlé is exiting ice cream, spinning out water, and cutting 16,000 roles...and it can do all of that cleanly because of a global ERP project that started in 2000 and took more than a decade to roll out. Technology!
When It Starts Feeling Like a Video Game
The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Divisions as Differentiators
Every (big-ish) box on your org chart should have a connection to your strategy. (Almost missed today due to bad wifi on my United Flight.)
Enterprise AI is getting stuck on people
AI AI AI but also can we pour one out for Mark Carney's historic speech? Hoping saner impulses prevail and as an IR major I'm very bummed about all the Melian Dialogue stuff of late.
AI and Obsolescence: Anthropic Research
Anthropic's research into Claude Code may signal the end of ideas like "role clarity" and "opportunities for growth and development." Is that a good thing?
Five OD Things Nº 11
Krugman on enshittification; a mission-driven reset at Microsoft; how Y2K wasn't a thing because of massive multiplayer cooperation; Medium's reboot story; Figma's S-1
The Changemaker's Skills Maturity Matrix
This development tool is designed to give change-agents inside organizations clarity into their path forward, help them define and deepen strengths, and maybe give us some shared language about what we do.
Five Org Design Things N° 9
Organizational health essential for firm performance; Avinsa; the heat death of Google; team performance research; platform teams @ PepsiCo
Reimagining the marketing organization in the age of generative AI
I reviewed the academic literature on the potential for AI machine learning to automate certain professional tasks. Then I compared and ranked those functions against an actual marketing org – a mere 7% of which is strongly resistant to automation.
Emergent Learning & Development: Guide to How and Why
Included in this guide are a few ways to re-think your approach to development, some prerequisites to this approach, and three ideas for how to sprint toward a new way.