Building Better Organizations

5 ▪ Organizational Design

Create Structures and Systems for Agility and Sustainability

Many leaders today are facing a crisis in confidence—if not in fact—in the way their companies function and perform, especially across the tech industry. They wonder: In today’s unforgiving and fast-moving environment, can the designs of organizations balance velocity and acceleration? Can they translate strategy into value? Everything hinges on how effectively those designs can shift from a scale, efficiency, and growth orientation to designs that are agile and sustainable, focused on resilience and adaptivity.

If the parade of environmental jolts and economic shocks in the last decades hadn’t already cast doubt on the effectiveness of traditional organizational ...