The terms "organization design" and "organization development" are often conflated and attributed to the same meaning in the corporate world. After all, both look to raise performance and lower costs.

Organizational design is the process of creating the hierarchy within a company. The six elements of organizational design help business leaders establish the company departments, chain of command and ...

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As any product-oriented startup founder will attest, great organizations — like great products — can be designed to be effective and responsive. Most breakthrough products are arrived at by following ...

Organizational design involves shaping company positions and employees into various structures. Many small companies may have little or no structure when starting out. But eventually company ...

Unfocused meetings. Competing priorities. Confusion over who gets to make the final call. These are often signs that your organization has poorly designed decision-making processes. Rather than ...

A business is the composite of its organizational structure, functional design and process workflow. You can think of the three as the legs of a stool. If the legs of a stool are not in perfect ...

Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

Identify needs, which may include the learning context and audience. How do you get there? Start with writing goals and learning objectives, then focus on assessments, learning activities, and ...