Essentials Series

Organisation Design in Challenging Times

 Speaker –Naomi Stanford

10.00 for 10.15 until 4.30 on 23rd April 2012 
at One Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE

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The Session 

Many factors are challenging current approaches to organization design which traditionally follows a systematic phased process of assessing current state, defining future state, judging the gap between the two and planning how to get from current to future in the belief that once at the future state, the outcome will be business success.

Key factors that argue for a more fluid and ‘messy’ approach to organization design include: 

• Availability of skills, expertise, knowledge to work in a collaborative, networked way
• Social expectations of what business organizations are for               
• Technology advances on all fronts particularly through the deployment of social media and virtual workplaces             
• The need to lead and manage multigenerational workforces in very different ways from the traditional hierarchical one 
• Economic and environmental pressures to operate in a lean and sustainable way

             
This session discusses the impact of these and other factors on organization designs and suggests a different way of ‘doing’ organization design at a team, business unit, and/or whole organization level.

Using a case study approach participants will learn to apply

• Principles for positioning organization design as a business capability required by line managers
• A less  systematic approach but still rigorous to getting organization design’s right for adaptability
• Hints, tips, tools, and how to’s on designing organization’s in the new way
• Change management principles within the organization design framework
• Guidelines for building organization design practitioner confidence and capability.

The Speaker 

Dr Naomi Stanford is an expert organization design, innovation, and culture consultant with clients in commercial, government, and non-profit sectors in, the US and Europe.  She helps develop adaptive, open, and successfully innovative organisations through alignment of the formal and informal, hard and soft aspects of the enterprise.

Examples of her work include facilitating strategic planning, innovation, and organization design off-sites for executives wanting to revitalize and refocus their businesses; managing the organisation design changes associated with large scale IT systems integrations and implementations; and designing in-house methodologies and toolkits for the consistent delivery of projects.

She has a PhD and two Master's degrees. She is also a Certified Management Consultant and Fellow of the RSA.

Dr Stanford is the author of: ‘Organization Design, The Collaborative Approach’, ‘The Economist Guide to Organization Design’, and The Organisation Culture: Getting it Right (Economist publication).  She has written many articles on aspects of organisation design and development and is a frequent speaker on the topics. 

This event will take place at One Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE.  Coffee will be served from 10.00am for a 10.15 start and the day will end at 4.30pm.

The per-person fee for each event is £320 plus VAT for members of the HR Society, and £395 plus VAT for non-members. 
A discount of 20% will be offered to companies or individuals who reserve a place on three or more Essentials events at the time of booking.
A 20% discount will also apply to the second and subsequent participants from the same company attending any one event.
All fees are inclusive of materials for the session, refreshments and a buffet lunch.

If you have any queries about this event or others in the HR Society Calendar please contact:
Gemma Chnery-Jones, Programme Administrator
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