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 ...

Organizational design serves as the foundation on which all company operations are built, including such vital factors as the grouping of employees within different departments and the formal ...

Fast Company Executive Board member Andy Vitale seeks to cement a new understanding of designers as problem-solvers and value-drivers. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network ...

Even the best, most comprehensive business strategy will fall short if tactical execution doesn’t meet expectations. Strategic organizational design can ensure wall to wall alignment between all areas ...

As community design moves into the mainstream, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering how design’s pretentiousness tends to keep people ,who could use design to more effectively navigate and ...

AI is inverting the traditional pyramid shape of organizations. Rethinking the structure for this shape shift requires CIOs, ...

This paper develops a parsimonious process-level theory that connects organizational structure to exploration and exploitation. Toward this end, it develops a mathematical model of organizational ...

In Supercharging the Customer Experience: How Organizational Alignment Drives Performance, customer experience and business transformation experts Alan Williams, founder and managing director of ...

How effective is your company, division or department? I’m not merely referring to the efficient use of resources such as money, technology and materials. Organizational effectiveness is broader than ...

Industry veteran David Alexander shared lessons from his career with current students in Northwestern Engineering’s Master of Science in Executive Management for Design and Construction (EMDC) program ...