THE RISE OF THE DIGITAL ORGANIZATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZING STRUCTURES
The Rise of the Digital Organization: Implications for Organizing Structures
Part 1
Leaders today are being challenged to accelerate the transformation of historic industrial business models into ones that are much more agile and customer focused while simultaneously building new, digital platform businesses. Most efforts are orchestrated around changing behaviors (think "agile" and "design thinking").
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We don't see the same leadership focus on adapting the underlying organizing structures – and we think this is a big miss. For leaders who are truly leaning into the digital transformation journey with their organizations, a good blueprint for adapting organizing structures already exists: software system architecture. Unexpected irony. We invite you to read on.
Part 2
We often hear leaders today lament the mind-numbing pace and magnitude of the digital disruption they are experiencing. How work gets done now within organizations is significantly different than it was in the past. And the concept of "organizational design" now goes beyond human structures, seamlessly integrating technology into every component of design.
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It's what we call socio-tech design. But where does a leader start? Read on for five steps we suggest to help leaders step full into the hard, messy, sometimes uncomfortable work of adapting structure to a Digital World. We invite you to read on.
